Articles by Eric Townsend
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Ward Family Learning in Action Award to support residential home in Ethiopia
May 6, 2015
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ sophomore Josephine Gardner will use the 2015 award to assist Ethiopian women and children by creating a "safe home" in the nation's capital.
'Garden Studio' class hosts strawberry festival & plant sale – May 8
May 5, 2015
The final Friday of classes this spring gives members of the campus community time to enjoy strawberry treats in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ Community Garden with an opportunity to win raffle prizes such as garden benches and basil pots.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ senior & alumnus receive Princeton in Asia fellowships
May 5, 2015
Laura Sturdivant '15 and Alexander Ward '14 travel next fall to Myanmar and the Philippines, respectively, with support of a program aimed at promoting goodwill and the exchange of ideas between cultures of the East and West.
5K fundraiser kicks off arts & science festival
May 2, 2015
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ's second annual celebration of the arts & sciences brought hundreds of people to campus Saturday for hands-on educational activities and the inaugural "5K Run/Walk for H.O.P.E." to benefit a student-run charity that fights hunger in Alamance County.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ senior's nonprofit earns her $15,000 award
May 2, 2015
Yasmine Arrington, a strategic communications and history double major from Washington, D.C., received a Samuel Huntington Public Service Award this spring to grow a nonprofit she founded to help the children of incarcerated parents pay for college.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ dedicates new 'front door' to campus
May 1, 2015
The community celebrated Friday the alumni, parents and friends whose generosity made possible the Inman ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ Welcome Center, which will greet generations of prospective ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ students and their families.
In My Words: Don't halt progress of sex education in North Carolina
May 1, 2015
Professor Rebecca Todd Peters in the Department of Religious Studies writes for regional newspapers about efforts to amend a North Carolina law that defines sex education and why changes might do more harm than good.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ hosts Special Olympics Alamance County Spring Games
May 1, 2015
Dozens of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ students, staff and faculty volunteered at a halfday program on April 24, 2015, that welcomed 375 athletes to campus for competition in the Jerry and Jeanne Robertson Track and Field Complex.