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Combining this soft-touch Christian approach with a steadily improving academic program has made A.P.U. the kind of college that appealed to someone like Jonathan Oliva, 23, a recent premed graduate from Moreno Valley, Calif. Oliva was considering San Diego State University when he was recruited by A.P.U.'s soccer coach and won over by the college's 90% success rate for getting students into medical school. Once he arrived on campus, Oliva found the Christian environment fostered his interest in science in a particularly meaningful way, as he traveled on medical-mission trips to Mexico and India to fulfill...
...July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism has been registered since...
Similarly, Oliva, 67, said he plans to stay in office until the new student center is finished--an idea he first proposed 25 years...
...Oliva has been at NYU since 1960 and has been an administrator there--a dean, vice president, provost and chancellor--since...
...Russian history professor, Oliva was appointed president in 1991--the first faculty member to serve as president...