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The School of Education recognized distinguished student and faculty achievement over the past year in a May 6 ceremony in the Moseley Center.

ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë senior Jana Murdock collected more than $10,000 this spring for Kopper Top Life Learning Center in Liberty, N.C., through a fundraising project that will provide revenue to the Triad nonprofit for years to come.

As you clean out your dorm room or apartment this month, instead of tossing furniture and clothing that you couldn't sell on E-net into the nearest trash bin, consider a donation to area charities that are working in coordination with the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the Office of Sustainability to help others in the community while minimizing the amount of waste dumped into local landfills.

What does the future hold for the United States now that Osama bin Laden is dead? And why did Americans feel the need to celebrate someone’s death? A panel of faculty and students addressed those questions and more on May 9 in a community discussion sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life.

Two ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë professors in the Department of History and Geography shared from campus on Friday their insights about the Civil War with students in a U.S. history class taught by a former North Carolina Teaching Fellow at a high school 90 miles away.

For the second consecutive year, ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë students who took part in the annual springtime ELONTHON dance marathon raised more than $100,000 to benefit young patients and their families with the nonprofit Children’s Miracle Network and Duke Children’s Hospital.

Three of North Carolina’s most influential voices in higher education gathered Wednesday, Feb. 9, for a panel discussion at a civic engagement conference on ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë’s campus. Their message was simple: state and federal lawmakers should preserve financial aid for students in the ongoing recession, and to stay competitive in a global economy, schools must widen access for those who want to pursue college degrees.

The new houses in the Loy Center will be among the most environmentally friendly residence facilities for college students in North Carolina when they open for the fall semester, and ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë leaders are now in the process of applying for LEED for Homes certification through the U.S. Green Building Council with a target level of Silver.

ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë students, faculty and staff helped clear debris, trees and other material during an April 30 tornado clean-up service trip to Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C.