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Summer Session provides an important academic opportunity for students and faculty. More than 7,500 students take Summer Session courses each year and about 95 percent of the students are in �Ͼ�Ʒ�� degree programs. Click through to read more about Summer Session programs and opportunities for class offerings.

With Family Weekend quickly approaching, many students may be getting a campus visit. It is a great opportunity to show parents, guardians or friends around and to update them on how school is going.

This Friday, members of the campus community are invited to join Chancellor DiStefano and Provost Moore for the annual presentation of �Ͼ�Ʒ�� faculty awards and the introduction of faculty members receiving tenure and promotion. The ceremony will be preceded by two programs earlier in the day, hosted in collaboration with Family Weekend.

Professor McKell Carter studies how social information influences the decisions people make, as well as how people predict others' behaviors. His expertise will be part of a French documentary that delves into the minds of world-class poker players.

The past secret societies of Chinese immigrants around the globe, and an emerging leader in crowdfunding securities -- New Zealand -- are the basis of research and teaching that two �Ͼ�Ʒ�� faculty members are undertaking overseas this academic year as recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards.

Noah Finkelstein, who co-directs the Center for STEM Learning at �Ͼ�Ʒ�� and is a principal investigator for the Physics Education Research group, plans to showcase �Ͼ�Ʒ�� research at Brazilian universities in November after being awarded a grant from a prestigious lectureship program for physicists.

�Ͼ�Ʒ�� rank as a tier-one research university holds merit with both faculty and students. Case in point: �Ͼ�Ʒ�� senior Nick Zyzda, who began working on his ambitious Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures research project, “Madness and Science in Georg Buchner Lenz,” this past summer with �Ͼ�Ʒ�� professor and mentor Dr. Arne Höcker.

Four of �Ͼ�Ʒ��'s five Nobel laureates gathered recently on campus for a photo in front of the Duane Physics Building. Click through for a short, behind-the-scenes video of the photo session.

Are you hoping to adopt accessible pedagogy practices or make your course more accessible? Then you should apply for OIT's Universal Design Fellowship. The $1,000 fellowship award can be used for travel to an accessibility or professional conference, or used for materials for classroom use.

A big part of being successful as a Buff is learning to study like a pro. Click through for some study tips and resources.