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Following a national search, Joseph R. Franco, Ph.D., has been appointed provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at 17�Թ���, the University announced on Wednesday.

17�Թ��� alumnus , a celebrated fashion designer and founder of the label Telfar, will address 17�Թ���’s Commencement 2023 and receive an honorary doctorate. will address the Elisabeth Haub School of Law graduating class. In addition, Sen. Warren and Harvard Law Professor and legal historian Bruce H. Mann will both receive honorary degrees. Trustee and alumnus Ivan G. Seidenberg ’81, retired chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, will address graduates of 17�Թ���’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems to mark the school’s 40th anniversary.

The Madness of March returns to 17�Թ��� once again: For the first time in school history the 17�Թ��� Men's Basketball team earns back-to-back NCAA championship berths as the Setters heard their name called in Sunday night's Selection Show on NCAA.com. 17�Թ��� received the No. 5 seed in the East Region and will face No. 4 seed and fellow Northeast-10 Conference foe University of New Haven.

17�Թ���’s Lubin School of Business, in collaboration with AnD Ventures, recently launched the 17�Թ��� Entrepreneurship Studio (PES) with the mission to support 17�Թ��� students, faculty, staff and alumni in taking their compelling business ideas or ventures from concept to company.

17�Թ��� Seidenberg School of CSIS Professor Zhan Zhang, PhD, recently received a $499,966 grant from the (NSF) to develop touchless smart glasses that will allow emergency care professionals to collect data, communicate with other specialists, and pull up medical protocol checklists with a gesture of the head or through voice controls. They’ll no longer need to take their hands—or their eyes—off the patient or risk transferring germs to and from a computer keyboard.

17�Թ��� on Wednesday hosted its annual LGBTQA+ Pride Hoops Night, a collaboration between 17�Թ���'s Office of Gender & Sexuality and 17�Թ��� Athletics. The tradition began in 2016, following the tragedy at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, to make a bold and positive statement to address hate and show that 17�Թ��� is a welcoming and supportive institution to the LGBTQA+ community.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 17�Թ��� is proud to announce that Karl Coplan, Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of 17�Թ��� Environmental Litigation Clinic at Haub Law, along with Achinthi Vithanage, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs & Professor at Haub Law, were named to the .

Jorge Islas López, Consul General of Mexico in New York, delivered the 2023 Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law on Wednesday, February 1, speaking on "The Consular Duty and the Protection of Human Rights in New York.” The Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law honors F. Blaine Sloan for developing the international law studies program at 17�Թ���. Consul General Islas López is also Giovanni Sartori Constitutional Law Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

17�Թ��� yesterday adopted the , an international framework for promoting wellness on campuses globally, during a campus-wide fair lauding the importance of wellbeing for its students. Hundreds of students, faculty, and staff turned out across all three of its campuses to celebrate the signing as well as to see dozens of exhibitors and programs available to members of the 17�Թ��� community.