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A leisure and sport management class raised $1,050 for the United Way of Alamance County by hosting two events in recent weeks.

Four professors were honored for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at the annual faculty-staff awards luncheon on May 14. Those recognized included Jim Bissett, Chalmers Brumbaugh, Brian Digre and Earl Honeycutt.

How did early American white plantation owners justify slavery when they worshipped every Sunday in the same churches alongside the black men and women whom they claimed to own? ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ history professor Charles Irons examines that question in a new book published this spring.

The 2008 Faculty Assisting New Students (F.A.N.S.) have been announced: Earl Danieley, Janna Anderson, Andi Metts, Chris Leupold, Paula Patch, Glenn Scott and Amanda Tapler.

Student leaders from a variety of academic disciplines were honored May 1 during the annual Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony in Whitley Auditorium and in individual departments throughout campus.

It took some students upward of two years to research and write, but the effort was not without recognition. Honors Program leaders hosted a dinner banquet May 12 for seniors who completed an Honors thesis under the guidance of a faculty mentor.

An ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumnus has been named one of Conde Nast/Modern Bride’s 25 Trendsetters of 2008.

An ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumnus was honored by his company last month for his volunteer work with both the corporation and his community.

A River's Reach, a new film involving students and staff from the School of Communications and Project Pericles, debuts next week at the Paramount Theater in downtown Burlington.