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The Business Journal of the Greater Triad reported in an early September article on a sustainability internship at ������Ƶ currently filled by student Ben Stanley.

"Best practices in transitioning youth with HIV: Perspectives of pediatric and adult infectious disease care providers," an article co-authored by Cynthia Fair and Kristen Sullivan in the Department of Human Services Studies, and by ������Ƶ alumna Amy Gatto, has been published in the journal Psychology, Health, and Medicine.

The company that oversees all food and catering operations at ������Ƶ presented a $50,000 gift to school leaders Tuesday morning at College Coffee to fund a new community service program set to begin this year on campus.

The Sierra Club named ������Ƶ one of the nation’s top “Coolest Schools” in the environmental group’s fourth annual rankings of America’s greenest campuses. It is the second consecutive year that ������Ƶ made the list, which rates schools in categories that include academics, waste management and energy efficiency.

������Ƶ Career Services this week presents “Career Kick-off,” a series of events to help students and alumni network, meet employers, find jobs and internships, and “survive the cut” in a competitive job market.

������Ƶ has provided faculty in the School of Communications and in the Department of Computing Sciences with Apple iPads as a form of professional development and to help keep professors at the forefront of using technology in the classroom.

“Text as the Basis for Text-less Music: 11th Century Poetry Meets a 21st Century Composer,” a symposium sponsored by ������Ƶ's Department of Music with contributions from the Department of English, takes place Sept. 13-15 to address the way in which instrumental music evokes, interprets and represents poetic texts, and the process by which composers craft “abstract” sounds from written sources.

������Ƶ students ran, tossed, tumbled and dodged last week as they participated in Sportsfest 2010. See the Sept. 3 event through the eyes of university photographer Kim Walker in a photo gallery now available online.