“There are stories behind everything on campus and they teach us about how we got to be where we are,” said Corey Earle ’07, an American studies lecturer. “Every name on every building has a story and ...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.

Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez gave her Last Lecture on May 14 to an auditorium filled with Bruins, her former students and fellow faculty. Thousands of Bruins voted for Ghez – who was one of 260 faculty ...

With many intellectually fruitful years ahead of him, Prof. Hunter R. Rawlings III, classics, acknowledged that the concept behind yesterday’s “Last Lecture” in Goldwin Smith may be a bit morbid.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm<BR><BR>The author of The Last Lecture has passed away. I had harbored vain hopes that he might somehow ...