Four glass panes flank the Peyton Yates Family Bridge at the Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building (GLT). They act as windows, bringing the campus closer to the clear, powder-blue…

In the second-to-last scene of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1946 film, “No Regrets for Our Youth,” the protagonist, Yukie Yagihara, realizes she prefers rural life over her urban home in…