What a difference a year makes. This month marks the one-year anniversary of this Alumni Update e-newsletter. For the last 12 months, a number of us in University Relations (recently renamed to include University Publications, but still including the Alumni Programs and Development offices) have been putting our heads together and trying to come up with an interesting assortment of news and events to tell you about, in the hopes of making you feel more connected to campus.

We've given you the lowdown on dozens of upcoming events in cities across the country; AU's latest (and continually rising) national rankings; the latest campus happenings; and some of the accomplishments of faculty, students, and alumni of which we are so proud. We know there are many more stories yet to be told!

I hope you've enjoyed receiving this e-newsletter for the last year. Please feel free to drop me a note and let me know what you like (or dislike) about it and if there's anything in particular you'd like to see us cover in the year ahead. Of course, we can't get to all 75,000+ of our alumni stories at once. But we'll sure try to hit the highlights.

All the best-
-Melissa Reichley
Editor, Alumni Update

P.S. The animals are back! Pandas that is. Just as the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities loaned AU its donkey and elephant statues two years ago before auctioning them off, they've let us borrow their latest "Pandamania" project this fall for display and enjoyment by all: more than 90 pandas decorated by artists from all over the country will be on campus through October 9.

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