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A fundraising effort by the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ men’s golf team and spearheaded by an MBA student debuts next month with “Eagles for Haiti,” a pledge drive that asks sponsors to donate money toward recovery efforts in the battered Caribbean nation for every eagle scored this season by male golfers in the Southern Conference.

The challenge was issued Feb. 1 by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumna and trustee Kerrii Brown Anderson ’79, former CEO of Wendy’s International, to increase participation in annual giving among young alumni. During the first week of the challenge, 84 young alums contributed $9,702 in gifts to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

Come together for a rare and exciting opportunity this summer as the university hosts a two-week journey to lands where three of the world’s major religious traditions have developed and flourished over millennia.

An Alamance County family has donated to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ a quarter acre next to the northern edge of campus near Rhodes Stadium, where a two-room wooden building first opened before the Civil War still stands as one of North Carolina’s original public school facilities.

John McGreevy '10, an environmental studies and biology major who was in Haiti during the devastating earthquake, recounts his experiences and efforts to assist victims in the Jan. 27 edition of The Mercury newspaper of Pottstown, Penn. McGreevy helped with emergency supplies, worked with orphans, witnessed emergency surgeries, and used his outdoor skills to become the de facto sanitation engineer in an area of Port-au-Prince.

She went to Haiti to document why some impoverished children thrived while others fell ill to malnourishment. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake tore apart the Caribbean nation, Courtney Latta ’09 found herself struggling not only for her own survival, but to help the countless victims of the region’s largest natural disaster in several generations.

Douglas G. and Edna Truitt Noiles ’44, of New Canaan, Conn., have made a $1 million gift to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to support the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, a university-run college access program for Alamance County high school students.

When Nick Igdalsky '99 visits Daytona International Speedway this weekend to begin his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series, he’ll find himself running against a familiar name in motorsports: Danica Patrick, an international sensation making her debut in stock car racing in the same field as the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alum.