LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 4 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * In Memoriam: Alice Gast 1958 - 2025 * USC Viterbi alumna Alice Gast, (B.S. ChE '80), an esteemed and globally recognized chemical engineering researcher and first woman president of both Imperial College London and Lehigh University, passed away on Oct. 27 in London after long battle with cancer. She was 67. A USC 1980 valedictorian, Gast made important co  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release: * * * Lawyers' Committee Welcomes Five Additional Board Members and Elects New Board Co-Chair, Vice-Chair * WASHINGTON - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has elected a new board co-chair and vice-chair and also welcomed five accomplished attorneys to its board of directors. Dean of Drake University Law School Roscoe Jones, Jr., was elected co-cha  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 6 -- Rice University posted the following news release: * * * Rice University Gateway Project to connect campus with Rice Village, modernize Rice Stadium * Rice University today unveiled the Gateway Project, a transformative initiative on university-owned land in Rice Village that will create a seamless, pedestrian-friendly corridor linking the campus to the heart of the Village, while reimagining the west side of campus anchored by the renovation of Rice Stadium. Root  more