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Plans for a new academic complex excited alumni, students and faculty who gathered Friday to help launch a fundraising drive that, once complete, will allow ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to double the amount of campus space dedicated to the School of Communications.

Associate Professor Prudence Layne writes in regional newspapers about the legacy of outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and his role in addressing racial inequalities in the United States.

Sponsored by the Alamance County Rotary Club, one of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's newest student organizations is commited to community and international service alongside professional and leadership development.

NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education has selected ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to participate in a national initiative on civic learning and democratic engagement.

Created in 2013, the program provides students with a basic skill set the Peace Corps and its participatory countries need for successful community projects.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Fall Convocation and Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture on Oct. 2, 2014, featured Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband-and-wife journalists who shared ways for people to make a difference in battling global challenges like poverty, sex trafficking and lack of educational opportunities.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll, for the first time in its history, used an online survey to ask registered voters about their impressions of North Carolina's U.S. Senate candidates this fall while measuring the way name ordering on ballots might affect support for major party nominees.

President Leo M. Lambert and four ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professors led dinner conversations on Oct. 6 with students from the university's Historic Neighborhood who wanted to share the lessons they learned from Fall Convocation.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win journalism’s highest honor, took questions from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students Thursday in a Whitley Auditorium conversation on the education of girls, their roles as storytellers and the “white savior complex.”