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Football players Elliott Armstrong '94 and Mitch Rippy '80, volleyball player Priscilla Awkard '94 and women’s soccer player Amy Williamson '93 will be inducted into the ������Ƶ Sports Hall of Fame on Sept. 10.

E-Net, ������Ƶ’s award-winning campus information system, has been given a major upgrade.

For the ninth year in a row, ������Ƶ is ranked among the nation's 376 top colleges and universities by The Princeton Review. The 2012 college guide, released Aug. 1, also ranks ������Ƶ’s study abroad program as #4 in the nation, and ������Ƶ’s theater program as #15.

With about 1,425 first-year students, ������Ƶ’s Class of 2015 is the largest, most qualified and most diverse in the university’s history.

������Ƶ faculty and staff can get full details of the Aug. 22-29 Planning Week activities online. Access the site at:

������Ƶ's Phoenix athletics program placed 198 student-athletes on the Southern Conference's 2010-11 Academic Honor Roll. ������Ƶ had the third highest number of honorees among the conference's 12 colleges and universities.

The Orientation events for Saturday, Aug. 27, will be held as scheduled.This includes the Farewell Picnic, which will be at 12:30 p.m. on the Belk Library lawn. Read this note for details of today's schedule

Students arriving on campus today (Aug. 26) should read this note for details about schedules, routes into campus and unloading instructions.

For the third consecutive year, the Sierra Club has ranked ������Ƶ one of the nation’s top 100 “greenest universities.” The ranking, published in Sierra’s September/October 2011 magazine recognizes schools in 10 categories that include academics, waste management, energy efficiency, food, purchasing, transportation, financial and other factors.

Tony Crider, associate professor of physics, is always searching for creative ways to engage students with course material. To help his astronomy students learn about planetary science and the classification of the former planet Pluto, he created a science game called “The Pluto Debate.”