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Chosen from a pool of nearly 400 people during auditions in New York City, Shin charmed producers with acoustic guitar renditions of Cold Play’s Viva La Vida and Psy’s Gangnam Style.

Beginning fall 2012, the University of Rochester Admissions Office will become “test flexible,” allowing applicants to the undergraduate College of Arts, Sciences & Engineering to submit any national or international test result along with their secondary school records of courses and grades.

A lot, as it happens. Henry Kautz, chair of the computer science department, and his colleagues have shown that Twitter messages can be harnessed to predict the spread of infectious diseases, for example.

First-year medical students Bridget Hughes, Lindsay Wahl, and Sarah Nevarez were praised Thursday by Rochester City rescue personnel and School of Medicine and Dentistry officials for helping rescue two children and their father from the Erie Canal.

Students’ Association President Roshal Patel ’13 and Eastman Students’ Association President Molly O’Roark ’13 look ahead to the upcoming academic year.

The Eastman School will kick off the school year with a series of programs and activities called Welcome Weekend.

The new IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer unveiled last week at the University’s Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation (HSCCI) is one of the nation’s five most powerful university-based supercomputing sites.

A second center will build on the success of the existing center at East High School.

Recipients of the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships are chosen through a competitive process from a national pool of applicants.

The new building is designed to be a hub at the cross-section of the study of arts, sciences, and engineering on campus.