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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ trustees gathered with Phoenix athletics fans and many other friends of the university to dedicate Alumni Field House on April 16. The 30,000-square-foot facility at the north end of Rhodes Stadium in the North Athletics Complex serves as the headquarters for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s sports programs.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumna Jenny Vanyur and associate professor Cindy Fair have had an article, "Sexual Coercion, Verbal Aggression, and Condom Use Consistency Among College Students," published in the most recent volume of the Journal of American College Health.

Associate professor Cindy Fair and Lauren Taylor '10 presented research at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, where more than 20,000 attendees converged for the July 18-23 event.

Associate professor Cindy Fair and ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumna Taylor Morrison '10 have co-authored an article published in Midwifery based on Morrison's ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College Fellows project, “The relationship between prenatal control, expectations, experienced control, and birth satisfaction among primiparous women."

Wade Barnes '04, vice president for consumer lending at First Mariner Bank in Baltimore, Md., was named to the inaugural "20 in Their Twenties" list selected by the Maryland Daily Record, a statewide business and legal newspaper.

Rebecca Johnson Mastin '93, principal of Mulberry Elementary School in Wilkes County, N.C., received the county's principal of the year award on March 28. Mastin will now compete with principals of the year from more than 20 school systems in northwestern North Carolina for regional principal of the year.

A record 1,394 young alumni made gifts to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ as part of the IGNITE Challenge in March, exceeding the 1,200 donor goal and helping to bring in $480,939 to the university. By surpassing the donor goal, young alumni enabled ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to receive bonus gifts totaling $40,000 from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumna and trustee Kerrii Anderson '79 and a group of nine young alumni. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ is grateful to all young alumni who participated in the Challenge.

Music theatre alumnus Rob Marnell '06 was featured in the March 31 edition of The News Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. He spoke with reporter Sheryl Krieg about his role as Alex the Lion in a touring production of "Madagascar Live" based on the hit animated film.