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On her way to class, amid a crowd of other students, Zurisadai Juarez-Delgado felt alone. She believed her experiences were so different from most other students that she became withdrawn, thinking no one could possibly relate to her. But Juarez-Delgado found a place where she could feel at home on campus, the inclusive community of the Education Diversity Scholars program at �Ͼ�Ʒ��. As a result, she has discovered a career path that is changing the trajectory of her life.

The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) has seen many changes over the past six months, all designed around a collaborative approach to improving the undergraduate experience.

Faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences have voted to revise the college core curriculum for the first time since 1988, a faculty committee announced Tuesday. The move will improve the educational experience for undergraduates in the college, proponents say.

A Q & A with Gia Voeltz — named to the first cohort of Faculty Scholars by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — gives insight into her research focusing on how organelles inside human cells get their shapes.

Today, Chancellor DiStefano and Provost Moore announced an update to the academic calendar that will affect the schedule of final exams and the spring commencement, starting with the 2017-2018 academic year.

As we enter the month of October, the midpoint of the semester is in sight. Now is a great time for a personal check up.

Jim Voss, scholar in residence in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and retired NASA astronaut, has won the 2016 Haley Space Flight Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It recognizes outstanding contributions to human space flight.

Described by colleagues as a “very sharp, talented young criminologist,” David Pyrooz is making significant contributions to the study of criminal gang culture, and is one of the few who looking at what happens when you get out of a gang. His research focus is earning him kudos and expanding society's understanding of gang populations.

Matthew Winchester and Matthew Hurst are among a handful of national scholarship recipients selected for 2016 by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Typically, the organization choses only one winner per university, but in �Ͼ�Ʒ��'s case, ASF has chosen two per year since 2015, according to the campus Top Scholarships office.

Elizabeth Koebele, a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Studies Program, was one of only 19 award winners from 535 applications for the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy grant. The environmentalist rubs elbows with ranchers and fly fishing companies, for example, adding a very social component to her research.