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A group dedicated to the education of Ugandan children is today one of the fastest-growing student organizations on campus. The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ chapter of “Invisible Children” has raised more than $5,200 in the past year to sponsor a secondary school in the war-ravaged African nation.

Researchers led by an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ associate professor have identified in walnuts at least two molecules that may hold the key to better treating, if not completely reversing, the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, a fatal type of dementia that diminishes memory and affects behavior in older adults.

A recent ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ graduate has been named the recipient of a 2008 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, an award that will help in her graduate studies of documentary film production with a focus on social justice and women’s rights.

About 45 classes during January 2008 will relate to this year's Winter Term theme, "Emerging Futures: Foresight for Global Good." This is the eighth year that ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has offered a special group of Winter Term courses united by a common theme. Details…

After decades of civil war, a fragile peace exists today in the southern Sudan.  While people have hoped that the peace accord there could serve as a model for ending genocide in the African nation's western province of Darfur, there are growing fears that calm in the south could unravel.  One ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professor has shown that sources of hostility for the Sudan have deep historical roots.