August/September 2026 Updates

  • Read the minutes of recent meetings of the Class Committee.
  • Also read the minutes of recent meetings of the Arts Legacy Committee.
  • The Arts Legacy Committee has been busy!
    • A student in the English and Creative Writing Department was selected to receive a Project Green Light grant. We expect to hear and read about the product of this very interesting project in the next few months. Read more about it on the Arts Legacy page.
    • In lieu of the planned Project Green Light funding for a student project in the Theater Department, the Theater Department requested that we fund six mini-fellowships to support students with financial need. Please read about this exciting project and the letter from the first recipient of a mini-fellowship.
    • The Arts Legacy Fund has also made several new acquisitions for the Hood Museum of Art. They are listed on the Projects page with links to details for each project.
  • As time consumes us, new obituaries appear on a regular basis. The latest include Bill Hoyt and Rich Mestetsky. As Baker Library has reorganized its memorial book acquisition program, the class has provided additional funds for book purchases. Find the list on the obituaries page.
  • See the Class Activities Calendar for information about the coming October 2-3, 2026 Fall mini reunion and Give A Rouse awards dinner.
  • The class Newsletter is available. Read the Fall 2026 newsletter and past newsletters.

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Editor’s Note: The findings reported here are based on preliminary results that have not been shared formally with the scientific community via peer-reviewed publication. This image shows the exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope: purple shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 3.00 microns, blue shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 4.44 microns, yellow shows the MIRI instrument’s view at 11.4 microns, and red shows the MIRI instrument’s view at 15.5 microns. These images look different because of the ways that the different Webb instruments capture light. A set of masks within each instrument, called a coronagraph, blocks out the host star’s light so that the planet can be seen. The small white star in each image marks the location of the host star HIP 65426, which has been subtracted using the coronagraphs and image processing. The bar shapes in the NIRCam images are artifacts of the telescope’s optics, not objects in the scene.

The featured images on this and other site update pages are taken from the James Webb Telescope images page. Click here to see many more images on the Webb Space Telescope page.

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August/September 2026 Updates

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  • Class Projects, Meeting Minutes, Newsletter, Obituary, Reunion Announcement

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April 2026

Topics Updated

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November 2025

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  • Obituary

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