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President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the passing of Professor of Biology Emeritus Eugene Putala in an e-mail to the campus community on April 4.

Patrick D. Reynolds, professor of biology at Â鶹¹ú²úAV, has been appointed dean of faculty at the college, effective July 1, 2011. He is currently serving in that capacity on an interim basis.

President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the passing of Professor of English Emeritus George Bahlke in an e-mail to the campus community on Feb. 1: Professor of English Emeritus George Bahlke died on Feb. 1 of complications from pneumonia. He was 76 and, although retired, was a frequent presence on campus.

Â鶹¹ú²úAV College has opened a new center to support its increasingly diverse student population and named it for trustees Drew S. Days III and Arthur J. Massolo.

The Â鶹¹ú²úAV College Town-Gown Fund celebrated its 10th anniversary by distributing a record $52,020 to eight local organizations.

Less than a year after becoming need-blind in admission, Â鶹¹ú²úAV College has announced “Bicentennial Initiatives,” a $117 million capital campaign whose primary objective is funding the new policy.

A new work by Â鶹¹ú²úAV College President Joan Hinde Stewart – The Enlightenment of age: Women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France – has been published by the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford.

Why change an important program that already enjoys high rates of usage and gets high marks from students?

It has taken 17 years, but the president and Congress have finally accomplished what eight Â鶹¹ú²úAV students achieved as part of a public policy class: overhaul the health care system.

Â鶹¹ú²úAV College has adopted a new strategic plan that is consistent with its identity, mission and purpose, and attentive to changing demographics and recent economic turmoil. The plan, titled "Foundations for Â鶹¹ú²úAV's Next 200 Years," identifies four defining values to direct future decision-making.