The Record

Congratulations, Class of 2016

This morning, more than 2,900 undergraduate, graduate and professional students will enter Brookings Quadrangle as degree candidates and leave as graduates after Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton confers their degrees.

Students to look ahead, reflect on college experience

Graduating students will hear from two of their peers today, both graduating from Arts & Sciences. Christine Lung, senior class president, will call upon classmates to consider whom they want to be. And, for the first time, Commencement also will include a graduate student speaker, Ashley Macrander (pictured, left), who will discuss what graduate education means.

Genomics aids diagnosis of unusual chronic meningitis case

A patient who suffered for three years from confusion and difficulty walking was successfully treated after School of Medicine researchers used an experimental technique to identify his symptoms’ cause. The culprit? A bacterium more commonly linked to acne.

How did cardinals get those bright red feathers?

Researchers at the School of Medicine have discovered the gene that produces the brilliant red color in male birds. The study is published online in Current Biology.