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Gallaghers could earn more from Oasis reunion than ‘they made in entire 90s’

Birmingham City University estimates tour could bring £400m in sales, with Liam and Noel in line to each earn £50m

So it is definitely not a maybe. Oasis are reuniting for a UK and Ireland tour that could be one of the most lucrative ever, with tickets being hyped as the “hottest of the decade”.

But one question people are asking is why? The most obvious motivation is money.

Despite both Gallagher brothers establishing successful solo careers since their split in 2009, nothing they have done comes close to the kinds of figures potentially on offer from the 14-date reunion shows that include a four-show run at Wembley stadium.

Birmingham City University estimate that the initial 14 dates could bring in £400m in ticket sales and other add ons, with Liam and Noel both in line to each earn £50m.

Dr Matt Grimes, course director of the music business BA at Birmingham City University, said the brothers could double their net worth in a few weeks. “They’re considering going into Europe as well, so they stand to make even more,” he said.

While ticket prices haven’t been revealed yet ahead of them going on sale this Friday, it’s likely they will have increased ten-fold from 1995, when tickets cost £14 on their UK tour.

Despite breaking up 15 years ago, Oasis as an entity hasn’t ever really gone away. The Gallagher brothers’ private lives have kept them in the tabloid press, while anniversary releases ensured their music continued to have a second life on streaming services.

The 2016 documentary Supersonic reignited interest in the group from older fans who lived through the original Oasis era and younger audiences who were introduced to the Gallagher’s Mancunian insouciance, humour and self mythologising .

Eamonn Forde, the business writer and author, says Oasis have occupied a unique place within British culture.

“They were ever present in the culture,” says Forde. “You can almost compare them to Abba or the Beatles, there’s always something happening to remind and draw in new listeners.”

“They’ve never monetised that nostalgia on this scale,” he added. “They’ll probably make more money from these gigs than they did in the entire 90s.”

Oasis are following in the footsteps of several of their Brit Pop peers by reuniting, but it doesn’t always work out. Pulp have had several get togethers over the years, while Blur reformed in 2009 and 2015 before their summer shows in 2023.

Blur’s comeback shows at Wembley last year were a success, selling out in minutes and impressing critics . But the reunion was fraught as tensions within the band rose m shown behind the scenes documentary To the End.

A cautionary tale comes in the form of the Stone Roses, another Mancunian band that paved the way for Oasis’s brand of lad-friendly indie. When they came back together in 2013, lifelong fan and film-maker Shane Meadows was on hand to capture the reunion, which soured shortly after it began and resulted with members walking out mid tour.

Despite the fallout, Meadows’ documentary captures – perhaps better than any other film about music fandom – why bands such as the Stone Roses appeal to so many people. “You can’t write it down, can you?” says one fan Meadows speaks with . “There’s a reason I’ve never worn a tie, there’s a reason I still listen to that [debut] album once a week. It still makes me tingle.”

Oasis have an even bigger emotional pull and cultural significance: their single Wonderwall has been streamed more than a billion times , while in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, mourning crowds broke out into a rendition of Don’t Look Back in Anger .

But like the Stone Roses the personal dynamics in the group are unpredictable . The Gallagher brothers didn’t speak to each other for years after their split in 2009, and have traded barbs in the press ever since: bookmakers are offering 4/1 on Oasis splitting up before the end of tour.

Forde believes that well-known friction may have led to water-tight contracts with clauses that would make it financially ruinous for either of the brothers to walk away or incredibly high insurance premiums for all parties involved in case of a split. But ways can be found to mitigate tensions when so much money is at stake.

“You hear about all these acts that hated each other whether it was The Eagles or Simon and Garfunkel, and they just didn’t see each other until they got on stage,” Forde said.

Another question lingering over the announcement is what the line up will be. Original guitarist, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, has been touring with Liam Gallagher this summer , while Noel’s group – the High Flying Birds – includes former Oasis member Gem Archer who also played with Liam’s Beady Eye .

Whoever takes the stage will be part of one of the most anticipated – and potentially combustible – comebacks ever.

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Each year, the University of Utah hosts exchange students from our international partner institutions for a semester or a full year. Only students who are currently studying at one of our partner institutions are eligible for this program. A list of current exchange partners is available on our website.

If you are a student seeking admission to the University of Utah as a degree seeking international student, please visit the websites for OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS - INTERNATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL STUDENT & SCHOLAR SERVICES .

Students who would like to attend the U and earn academic credits should review the following information before submitting an application:

Step 1: Official Nomination

Students : Contact your international office to determine if an exchange partnership exists between your home institution and the University of Utah. You must be nominated as an exchange student before you are eligible to apply. You should also discuss whether or not studying at the University of Utah is a good fit for your academic and professional goals.

Exchange Coordinators : Please speak with your student about the application process and requirements for participation at your institution. We also recommend confirming that the student will be able to meet the admissions requirements for University of Utah exchange students.

Once you are prepared to nominate the student, contact the   Exchange Team   via email to confirm the number of exchange spaces available. We will then send you a link via email to our online Student Nomination Form where you will submit a nomination. Please be prepared to provide the following information:

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Nomination Deadlines

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• Spring Semester and Calendar Year:   August 15th

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Nominated students scan and upload following into their online application   (paper applications will no longer be accepted ):

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• TOEFL 80 iBT
• IELTS band score of 6.5
• DUOLINGO: 105 or higher
• Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) score 54+
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• Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR) score C1+
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Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston Awarded $44.2 million to Create Regional Hub for Translational Research

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Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Houston have been awarded a $44.2 million Clinical and Translational Science Award Program grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Research to create a regional hub to serve as a support for infrastructure, services, community engagement and workforce development to advance research and drive innovation in clinical translational science.

Key Takeaways

• $44.2 million grant to BCM and UH establishes the Consortium for Translational and Precision Health, a regional hub to support clinical translational research. 
• The CTPH builds on the partnership between BCM, UH and other clinical and research groups within the Texas Medical Center to foster innovation in areas such as basic science, health services pharmaceutical sciences and entrepreneurship.  
• Hub will connect researchers with community health care organizations and government agencies, creating a multidisciplinary environment that supports infrastructure, services and workforce development to advance health care solutions. 
• The CTPH will provide funding and resources for pilot projects and research initiatives, helping to accelerate the translation of new technologies and discoveries into patient care and population-level impact. 
• Draws on expertise from 10 UH colleges, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, optometry, engineering and others, highlighting the comprehensive institutional commitment to improving population health outcomes.

This new hub is called the Consortium for Translational and Precision Health (CTPH) and builds on the strong partnership between UH and BCM along with the clinical and research groups within the Texas Medical Center that collaborate with these two institutions. It draws on strengths from both institutions in basic science, translational research, health services, pharmaceutical sciences as well as entrepreneurship to develop and disseminate innovations. The CTPH also will connect investigators with community healthcare organizations and government agencies that contribute to healthcare, clinical research and policy in the region.

“This transformational grant for clinical research, led by Baylor and UH, will advance care for patients in Houston and beyond,” said Dr. Paul Klotman, president, CEO and executive dean of BCM. “It will accelerate the transfer of new technologies to patient care.”

“Research is the engine empowering health care’s life-changing advancements,” said UH President Renu Khator. “This innovative hub will be a catalyst for groundbreaking discoveries and treatments that improve people’s quality of life. That’s what drives us at UH and we’re ecstatic to cofound a regional hub for change alongside Baylor.”

The leaders for the CTPH are Dr. Christopher Amos, professor and director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) at BCM, Dr. Fasiha Kanwal, professor of medicine and chief of the section of gastroenterology and hepatology at BCM, and Dr. Bettina M. Beech, clinical professor of population health and the chief population health officer at UH.

“The CTPH is a partnership that draws on strengths of both institutions, creating a rich multidisciplinary environment. It will act as the vehicle to enhance the infrastructure and resources needed to effectively conduct research and implement solutions to advance healthcare,” said Dr. Carolyn Smith, interim senior vice president and dean of research at BCM. “It will help implement and create ongoing core research activities that will support the clinical translational science at both institutions.”

The hub will provide funding for pilot projects, and support the groundwork needed for ongoing research. For example, a researcher developing a clinical study might need help with community outreach and engagement, additional study design planning, or access to clinical data. The CTPH will provide resources and services to accelerate the pace of research from discovery to population level impact.

The foundational platform for the CTPH has been laid out in part by the work of Amos’ group at ICTR, which is a group that supports clinical and translational research within BCM.

In addition to UH’s Population Health program and Division of Research, the CTPH will draw upon expertise from 10 UH colleges, including the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, College of Optometry, C. T. Bauer College of Business, Cullen College of Engineering, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and the Honors College.

“We are deeply committed to advancing innovation in clinical and translational science, and this award is a significant step forward in our mission to improve population health outcomes,” Beech said. “This is a testament to the unwavering dedication and collaborative spirit of everyone involved. It truly was a team effort.”

Currently, more than 60 leading medical institutions across the nation receive CTSA Program funding. The institutions offer expertise, resources and partnerships at the national and local levels to improve the health of individuals and communities. The CTSA Program also nurtures the field of translational science through education, training and career support at all levels.

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Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners of war as Ukraine marks independence anniversary

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August 24, 2024, 12:10 PM

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 100 prisoners of war each on Saturday as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

Ukraine said the 115 Ukrainian servicemen who were freed were conscripts, many of whom were taken prisoner in the first months of Russia’s invasion. Among them are nearly 50 soldiers captured by Russian forces from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol .

The Russian Defense Ministry said the 115 Russian soldiers had been captured in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched their surprise offensive into Russia two weeks ago. The ministry said the soldiers were currently in Belarus, but would be taken to Russia for medical treatment and rehabilitation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X that the United Arab Emirates had again brokered the exchange, the 55th since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.

Photos attached to Zelenskyy’s post show gaunt servicemen with shaven heads and wrapped in Ukrainian flags.

“We remember each and every one. We are searching and doing our best to get everyone back,” Zelenskyy said in the post.

Officials from the two sides meet only when they swap their dead and POWs, after lengthy preparation and diplomacy. Neither Ukraine nor Russia discloses how many POWs there are in total.

According to the U.N., most Ukrainian POWs suffer routine medical neglect, severe and systematic mistreatment and even torture while in detention. There have also been isolated reports of abuse of Russian soldiers, mostly during capture or transit to internment sites.

Last January, Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release.

Drone and artillery attacks continue

Five people were killed and five others wounded on Saturday in Russian shelling of the center of the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s partially occupied eastern Donetsk region, local officials said.

In the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Russian shelling killed two people and wounded four on Saturday, including a baby, officials said.

Two people were killed in a Russian drone attack, and one further person in shelling, in the northeastern Sumy region.

Ukraine’s air force said it had intercepted and destroyed seven drones over the country’s south. Russian long-range bombers also attacked the area of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island overnight with four cruise missiles, while the wider Kherson region was also struck by aerial bombs.

In Russia, the Defense Ministry said Saturday that air defenses had shot down seven drones overnight.

Five drones were downed over the southwestern Voronezh region bordering Ukraine, wounding two people, regional Gov. Aleksandr Gusev said. Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Directorate claimed to have blown up a warehouse storing 5,000 tonnes of ammunition in the region’s Ostrogozhsky district. News outlet Astra published videos appearing to show explosions at the ammunition depot after being hit by a drone. The videos could not be independently verified.

Two people were wounded in a drone attack in the Belgorod region, also bordering Ukraine, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Local authorities did not report any casualties in the Bryansk region, where the fifth drone was intercepted.

In the Kursk region, regional Gov. Alexei Smirnov said Saturday that three missiles were shot down overnight and another four on Saturday morning.

Russian air defenses shot down two more drones on Saturday morning, Russia’s Defense Ministry said — one over the Kursk region and one over the Bryansk region.

Independence Day commemorations

Ukraine marked its 33rd Independence Day Saturday as its war against Russia’s aggression reaches a 30-month milestone. No festivities are planned and instead Ukrainians will mark the day with commemorations for civilians and soldiers killed in the war.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the anniversary, Zelenskyy announced on Saturday that Ukraine has successfully used a new domestically produced drone for the first time against Russian forces.

“Today, we had the first and successful combat use of our new weapon — a completely new class of weapon, the Ukrainian missile drone ‘Palyanitsa,’” Zelenskyy said.

He did not give further details, but added that “the enemy was struck,” and thanked the developers and manufacturers.

Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine’s offensive in the Kursk region was a “preventive strike” that made it possible to avoid encirclement of part of Ukraine’s Sumy region.

Poland’s president joins the commemorations in Kyiv

Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Kyiv by train early Saturday in a symbolic show of support from one of Ukraine’s key allies.

Videos posted by his office showed him being greeted by Ukrainian officials and later paying his respects in a ceremony at the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine.

Duda’s visit to Kyiv, his fifth since February 2022, sends a message that Warsaw’s support for Ukraine remains strong as the war drags on for the third year.

Poland, located to Ukraine’s west, has donated arms and become a hub for Western weapons destined for Ukraine. It has also welcomed tens of thousands of Ukrainians who fled the war. It hosts the most Ukrainian refugees outside of the country after Germany.

A trade dispute over Ukrainian grain that dragged down ties last year, and historical grievances between the two countries, sometime provoke bad feelings, particularly among Poles who remember a World War II-era massacre by Ukrainian nationalists.

Morton reported from London. Associated Press writer Ahmad El-Katib in Beirut contributed to this report.

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As Kamala Harris Claims Oakland, Berkeley Forgives

The vice president has virtually erased Berkeley, Calif., her hometown, from her campaign biography. The residents of “the People’s Republic” say they get it.

Kamala Harris spent much of her childhood living in a modest, yellow house in Berkeley, Calif. But as she campaigns for president, she calls herself a “daughter of Oakland.” Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York Times

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High above an arena packed with Democratic delegates in Chicago last week, a video introduced the life story of Kamala Harris to the world.

“Behind me is where it all began,” said her childhood friend, Stacey Johnson-Batiste, standing in front of a charming yellow, two-story home where Ms. Harris grew up in a small apartment above a nursery school.

But where was that exactly? The screen simply read “East Bay,” as in the eastern section of the San Francisco Bay Area that sprawls over 1,400 square miles and is home to nearly three million people. Ms. Harris called the area just “the bay” in her speech on Thursday night. Other speakers throughout the week referred to Ms. Harris as hailing from Oakland, the East Bay’s largest city.

The word almost never spoken was the name of Ms. Harris’s actual hometown: Berkeley, Calif.

That little yellow house sits on Bancroft Way in the university city known, fairly or not, for a hippy-dippy vibe where residents gamely embrace the nickname, “People’s Republic of Berkeley.” Ms. Harris’s old neighborhood is now called Poets Corner for its preponderance of streets named for writers such as Chaucer and Byron.

The neighbors, who tend a community garden and circulate a newsletter, have a theory about why Ms. Harris does not shout out her hometown much these days.

“Oh, people would definitely think Berserkeley!” said Anna Natille, who lives near Ms. Harris’s childhood home and was walking her pug, Figgy, past it last week. “We have such a reputation for being on the far left, that we’re all a bunch of communists and socialists.”

In other words, maybe not a great way to lure the country’s middle-of-the-road voters to the Democratic ticket.

Ms. Harris began downplaying her Berkeley roots years ago when she first prepared to run for statewide office in California. Today, she often describes herself with the somewhat vague label “daughter of Oakland,” a phrase that ties her to a working-class city with less stigma — and counters Donald J. Trump’s preferred branding, “San Francisco liberal.”

A spokeswoman for the Harris campaign said the campaign had no comment.

Ms. Harris is hardly the first politician to be selective about her biography; leaning into key events or places to match a political message is a timeworn tradition. George H.W. Bush hyped his Texas background, though he had grown up in Connecticut, and Al Gore touted his roots in Tennessee and not his childhood home: the Fairfax hotel in Washington, D.C. For Ms. Harris, whose family moved frequently, the matter is less about inaccuracy than emphasis and omission.

She was indeed born in an Oakland hospital in 1964, but she did not settle in the city until she was in her 20s and working as a prosecutor in the county district attorney’s office.

Her birth certificate lists an apartment building near the University of California, Berkeley campus, where her parents were pursuing Ph.D.s. It sat just a half-block south of People’s Park, the campus land taken over by activists in 1969, just a few years after the Harris family moved out of the building.

When Ms. Harris was a toddler, her family moved to the Midwest where her father, Donald Harris, taught briefly at universities in Illinois and Wisconsin. After her parents split up, Ms. Harris returned to Berkeley when she was 5, with her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris , and her sister, Maya, and eventually settled into the little yellow house in the “flatlands,” then a working-class part of the city with a large population of Black families.

Ms. Harris’s mother was steeped in the social activism vibrant in both Berkeley and Oakland. Ms. Harris attended Berkeley public schools and was bused to Thousand Oaks Elementary School in a more upscale neighborhood in the hills of north Berkeley as part of a voluntary program to integrate schools.

Ms. Harris moved to Montreal when she was 12 and to Washington, D.C., to attend Howard University, returning to the Bay Area for a summer during college when she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, a city next to Oakland. She settled in the area as an adult.

(Montreal fared even worse than Berkeley at the convention. The city’s name was completely excised from Ms. Harris’s retelling of her childhood, while Berkeley was mentioned just once, by Oprah Winfrey.)

The vice president’s shifting descriptors of her hometown have been noticed by local people clued into associations with each place: Berkeley (radical lefty and weird), Oakland (working-class and a hub of Black politics) and the East Bay (could be anything, really).

“I’d be willing to bet a lot the reason they’re not saying Berkeley is just because of the stereotype,” said Charles Wollenberg, a historian who has written a history of Berkeley. He added that he did not think the amorphous term “East Bay” was an ideal substitute. It could apply to dense, diverse cities or roomy suburbs.

“Even if you knew what the East Bay was,” he said, “it could be Oakland or Walnut Creek.”

Ms. Harris has, at times, done her part to puncture those stereotypes. In her 2019 memoir, she described Berkeley, now home to about 120,000 people, as far more complex and multilayered than its national reputation. Her neighborhood, she wrote, was filled with “working families who were focused on doing a good job, paying the bills and being there for one another.”

And she wrote about the Rainbow Sign, a Black arts and cultural center in Berkeley where she was exposed to a lively mix of poetry, art and oratory and learned that “artistic expression, ambition and intelligence were cool.” The city back then was about a quarter Black and had just elected its first Black mayor. More recently, housing in the city, including in the once-working-class neighborhood where Ms. Harris grew up, has become so expensive as to price out many of the types of working families she wrote about.

But Berkeley’s role in her public story shrunk as her ambitions grew. In 2008, just before she announced her run for California attorney general, the mention of Berkeley was taken out of her bio on her political website, which referred to her as a “California native” before turning to “born and raised in the East Bay” and, at points, “born in Oakland.” (She has mentioned Berkeley a few times in speeches over the years to allude to the civil rights movement or her experience in school busing programs.)

In the 2019 speech kicking off her first presidential run, Ms. Harris stood before a crowd of around 20,000 people in downtown Oakland. Her very first words were: “I am so proud to be a daughter of Oakland, California.”

Several former aides to Ms. Harris during her early career said they did not recall any discussion about the changes.

Not surprisingly, Berkeley and Oakland, both solidly Democratic cities, want to claim Ms. Harris as their own.

One of Ms. Harris’s longtime friends, the former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf, is delighted to see the vice president hype up Oakland, using East Bay lingo to say she is “hella proud of this daughter of Oakland.”

“We love that she claims Oakland,” she said. “Unapologetic warriors for justice, that’s the Oakland brand.”

Even as the mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguín, countered — “She’s a daughter of Berkeley!” — he was also self-aware.

“Berkeley is viewed as the most liberal city in the United States, and we’re proud of that,” he said. “But maybe for some people in the red states, that may freak them out.”

Still, residents of Berkeley know their Harris landmarks. When she and President Biden won in 2020, a spontaneous dance party erupted outside her childhood home on Bancroft Way, with children drawing messages on the pavement in chalk and a New Orleans-style jazz band parading up the street.

The town’s visitors’ bureau has even created a tour of sites associated with Ms. Harris, including the yellow house. (Oakland’s visitors’ bureau has one as well.)

Around the corner from the yellow house, on Browning Street, dozens of neighbors gathered in a side yard on Thursday night to watch the onetime resident of Poets Corner accept her party’s nomination on an outdoor movie screen.

They sprawled on picnic blankets and sat in folding chairs. They popped bottles of bubbly and sliced a cake that read “Kamala 47,” a reference to the fact that she would be the country’s 47th president if she won. Little girls sold homemade T-shirts reading, “Keep Calm and Vote for Kamala.”

Nobody seemed to care that she did not call out their town by name as they cheered her generic references to the East Bay. She stands for Berkeley values, they said, even if she does not name their city.

“What she stands for and what she says she’s going to do are such a part of this community, the hopes and dreams we all have,” said Mallorie Baron, a neighbor who taught at Thousand Oaks Elementary long after Ms. Harris left town.

“It just feels right.”

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California. More about Heather Knight

Alexandra Berzon is an investigative reporter covering American politics and elections for The Times. More about Alexandra Berzon

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Wolf Pack Map – a new resource is available to help navigate around the University campuses and locations

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The University of Nevada, Reno has launched a new map resource for the community helping folks find their way around. The map, created in partnership with Concept3D, includes the main University campus along with the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, the Innevation Center, and Redfield campus.

Features include wayfinding (creating a visual representation and step-by-step directions from one location to another), campus tours, and pre-loaded lists of locations of commonly searched-for resources. 

Some of the resources available on the map include paid visitor parking, ADA parking, permit parking, and drop off/pick up locations, dining options across campus, restrooms, public safety and emergency services including AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) locations, emergency phones and local emergency rooms, ADA accessibility resources, lactation/quiet spaces around campus and much more.

Using the built-in resources or searching the map on mobile or desktop devices is easy.  People can create a pin and share a specific location with a link or QR code or create directions from point A to point B and share those. The map also includes geolocation pin-pointing so if you have your browser enabled to share your location with the map, you can find your starting point and simply type in your desired destination to be shown the way. The wayfinding directions can be tailored to show only accessible routes and to show the distance between the points of access in feet and miles or kilometers and meters. It’s also possible to select walking, bike riding, or vehicle directions.

Check out tutorial videos on the University's YouTube playlist.

The campus map has been launched along with a campaign to promote the resource corresponding with welcome week, NevadaFIT and the start of the fall semester in the hope that it will make finding classrooms, offices and navigating to various events much easier for students and community members visiting the campus.

For those unfamiliar with the campus, it is a great way to learn about the layout and learn about buildings, monuments and resources. When a person taps on a building, a photo of the building along with a short description appears so people see what the building looks like and not just the location of it. For some buildings, including all residence halls, there are also video tours embedded into the map that showcase what it’s like inside the building.

As mentioned earlier, there are three tours built into the Wolf Pack Map including the popular locations tour , the housing tour , and the accessible self-guided tour .

Each tour is tailored to showcase various buildings and locations and acts as a virtual campus visit for those who haven’t visited the campus in person or who want to refresh their memories. Photos of buildings, monuments and locations along with descriptions and helpful links are included in the tours as you navigate from one location to the next.

Explore the tours on the Wolf Pack Map by clicking on the Tours tab next to Locations under the search bar on the left-hand side.

In the future, the University plans to expand the map to include interior floor maps of academic buildings, statewide locations including Extension locations, water bottle filling stations and more. 

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Lactation/quiet room opens in Thompson Building inside the suite of Gender, Race, and Identity

The newest addition provides a private space near the Quad on campus

Reflecting on Steve Alford’s Olympic triumph: a gold medal journey

Alford was a key player on the amateur-level U.S. Olympic 1984 men’s basketball team, helping to secure an Olympic gold medal

Sagebrushers season 3 ep. 8: Executive Director of the First-Generation Center Ellen Houston

President Sandoval and Houston explore resources offered for student success

Sagebrushers season 3 ep. 9: Nevada Football Coach Jeff Choate

With football season kicking off this week, the University’s new coach shares plans for the year ahead

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University of Nevada, Reno signs agreements with two universities in Italy

Representation matters

College is saddened by passing of colleague and supporter Larry Pedrett

Pedrett was an ardent advocate for support of our research, outreach and teaching missions

University enrolls first cohort from its Tribal College Prep Camp

Four students from the camp join the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources

University welcomes new students to campus as NevadaFIT begins

The campus is busy again as new students settle in and get set up for success

Washoe County 4-H Festival will feature hands-on activities, animals and more

The free festival invites youth and families to learn more about 4-H programming

Nevada's Recovery and Prevention hosts annual 5k Run/Walk and Recovery Celebration

School of Public Health program honors National Recovery Month with 5k event

Empowering future physicians: UNR Med student explores science communication in inaugural summer internship

The Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science inspires Douglas Collins to conduct TikTok interview series

University of Nevada, Reno to host annual powwow event

The celebration will engage Native communities on campus, honor Indigenous traditions and kick off the new school year

Research published in PNAS proposes a new model that predicts river tributary length and spacing

The work may improve scientists’ ability to route water, sediment, and nutrients through river networks

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Driskell and friends.

The Arthur Ross Gallery presents the work of artist, scholar, and curator David Driskell and explores his relationships with other artists. Friends include: Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Keith Morrison, James Porter, and Hale Woodruff.

6:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St.

Sense of Place: Japan

’chocolate milk’.

Fagin Hall, 418 Curie Blvd.

Present Futures

The Forum at the Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut St.

Campus & Community

New Student Orientation for the Class of 2028

A roster of events ranging from a primer on penn traditions to dinner and dancing at the philadelphia museum of art to walking tours and introductions prepares students for life on campus..

The Class of 2028 students kicked off their first year by getting to know each other—and the Penn campus—at New Student Orientation (NSO) Aug. 21-26. The program is a series of events to help students acclimate to their new life at Penn, with special events for transfer, international, and first-generation and/or limited-income students .

Hallmark events included the traditional all-access evening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with tours, dinner, and dancing; a masquerade dessert reception for second-year students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , the New Student Resource Fair for graduate and undergraduate students, walking tours of Philadelphia, the President and Provost’s Family Welcome , Penn Traditions: Highball to Hey Day , and the Class of 2028 photo on Franklin Field . New Student Orientation will then culminate with Convocation.

On Thursday, Aug. 22, the members of the Class of 2028 gathered in the Palestra for a welcome session, introduction to Penn resources, and the new Building the Penn Community event, a series of reflections with returning students, staff, and faculty on creating community, countering hate, and growing through differences.

“The students had a palpable sense of energy and excitement, seeing their entire class together in the historic Palestra , a building likely to already be familiar to many basketball fans,” says David Fox , who directs NSO and serves as a lecturer in theater arts.

The day culminated with another new event at the National Constitution Center , where students got a grand view of Independence Hall and historic Philadelphia. “Getting to know the city is an important part of being at Penn,” Fox says.

The National Constitution Center has embraced the themes of speech and discussion , which underscores the programming of this year’s NSO and is perfect for an election year, Fox says. “You’re going to meet people you agree with; you’re going to meet people you disagree with. But it’s important to treat everyone with respect. The Constitution Center puts that in historical framework.”

Several other events were new this year, including a culture festival with campus cultural resource centers as well as the Intercultural Greek Council and Getting Ready to Dialogue , a special Zoom workshop led by Interim President J. Larry Jameson on the findings and recommendations of the University Task Force on Antisemitism and the Presidential Commission on Countering Hate and Building Community.

Move-In coordinators help ease transition to college

Health Sciences

The power of protons

Penn Medicine has treated more than 10,000 cancer patients at three proton therapy centers across the region, including the largest and busiest center in the world—while also leading the way in research to expand the healing potential of these positive particles.

To Penn’s Class of 2024: ‘The world needs you’

The University celebrated graduating students on Monday during the 268th Commencement.

Class of 2025 relishes time together at Hey Day

An iconic tradition at Penn, third-year students were promoted to senior status.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Picturing artistic pursuits

Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.

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The Application Process

Step 1- browse exchange and partner institutions.

There are two ways to view our exchange and partner institutions. Please follow the directions below to browse programs and narrow down which school interests you most: 1. Access the  UT Study Abroad Porta l via MyUtampa.

• On the Programs page filter by Program Type:  Exchange  to see our Exchange Programs.
• On the Programs page filter by Program Type:  Study Abroad  to see our partner programs**

**Please note: the  Study Abroad  filter also includes our Affiliate Programs. The University of Tampa partner programs are indicated in red on the top left-hand side of the program banner image.  

2. Click on the  Exchange and Partner Institutions  page to view our programs. Click on the link of a program that interests you to be routed directly to the program page in the UT Study Abroad Portal.

Step 2 - Begin an Exchange or Partner Program Application

Once a student selects a program in the portal and submits an  application profile , the Education Abroad staff conducts an eligibility review. If eligible for your selected program, you will be  conditionally approved  and given access to a series of application forms to complete. You will remain conditionally approved until all application forms are completed by the final form submission deadline.

Step 3 - Browse Courses

• One of the forms in your application, entitled  Course Approval Process,  will provide instructions on how to access the   Study Abroad Course Approval portal . Students will need to use this portal to get approval for their study abroad courses and create their transient form. Carefully follow the instructions in the video tutorial before utilizing the platform.
• Access the Study Abroad Course Approval portal and view the historically approved courses of your selected institution and check if any of the approved courses could apply to your degree requirements. For courses that have not yet been approved, you must go through the course approval process outlined in the Video Tutorial.
• Please note: This component of your application has its own deadlines. Please make it a priority to complete it on time.
• Remember, while abroad you should take courses towards your major, minor or elective requirements. What’s important is that the courses taken abroad somehow fulfill the requirements towards your degree.
• The International Programs Office cannot guarantee a particular university will have all the courses you need.

Step 4 - UT Application Submission Deadlines

Submit all required  application profiles  by the appropriate deadline:

• April 1- Fall semester programs
• Oct. 1 - Spring semester programs

Submit all required final  application forms  by the appropriate deadlines:

• May 1 - Fall semester programs
• Nov. 15- Spring semester programs

Step 5 - International Programs Office Reviews Submitted Applications

The International Programs Office reviews submitted applications.

Step 6 - Required Advising Session (Only Exchange Programs)

• BI Norwegian Business School
• EDHEC Business School
• Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
• Kansai Gaidai University
• Rennes School of Business
• Sciences Po Aix
• Sciences Po Rennes
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management

Step 7 - Nomination to Host University

Once your courses have been approved, you may be nominated to the Exchange and Partner program. Your application status will change to  Nominated  and the International Programs Office will provide you with the next steps shortly thereafter.

Step 8 - Host University Application

Once you have been officially nominated, you will begin the host university application. You will be notified by the host institution and informed of their application process and deadlines, which you must follow in order to be officially admitted to their program.

Step 9 - Visa

Our office will provide you with a consulate letter and your host institution will provide you with an acceptance letter to help you get your visa, if required for your country of study. The host institution should orient you to the visa process for your selected destination.

Step 10 - Pre-Departure Orientation

You will be required to attend a mandatory orientation session prior to your departure abroad. If you do not attend this session you will be withdrawn from your study abroad program.

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• When to schedule your visit: Check out our Moscow campus as students attend class, engage in research and go about their day-to-day lives as Vandals. Ideally, attend a tour before submitting your application, preferably in the spring of your junior year or early fall of your senior year.
• Be ready to ask questions: Make a list ahead of time to ask your tour guide, admissions counselor and students you see around campus.
• Consider multiple campus visits: Start virtually to get a feel for our campus. Then, to get a more personal perspective, consider attending an on-campus visit. Here, opt for a student-guided campus tour, and schedule in visits with schools or departments for programs you’re curious about.
• Take notes: What makes U of I unique? How does being a Vandal resonate with you? Document your visit with notes and photos to reference later.
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