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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ junior Amber Mathis has received a Newman Civic Fellows Award from Campus Compact, a national organization that aims to improve community life and to educate college students on civic and social responsibility. She is one of 135 students from 30 states to receive the award.

CELEBRATE! 2011 continued Thursday afternoon at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ with four student presentations on academic service-learning projects that involved community outreach over the past year.

Student Global AIDS Campaign, an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Volunteers! club and ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's only HIV/AIDS awareness program, will meet this Tuesday, April 5, to discuss events and garner future interest. Events for the semester include a 2-mile run and a dinner.

An organization that helps universities across North Carolina develop an ethos of volunteerism and service among students has awarded Mary Morrison, director of the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, its 2011 Civic Engagement Professional of the Year Award.

Campus Kitchen at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, a community program to serve meals to those in need in Alamance County, opened for the first time on Tuesday when top university leaders prepared lasagna dishes during a special College Coffee in the 1889 Grill Room.

Alexa Darby, an assistant professor of psychology, will assume the role of academic coordinator for the Civic Engagement Scholars Program effective Jan. 1, 2011.

An organization that represents private colleges in North Carolina has awarded ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ a grant of nearly $15,000 to fund a summer program for students about to graduate from local high schools and who make up the inaugural class of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy college access program.

When it comes to engaged learning, students in the fall semester public administration senior seminar on food and agriculture public policies learned that it doesn’t get any more hands-on than processing chickens themselves, from the final clucks to the customer sales on a small Orange County organic farm.

The MBA Student Alumni Association hosted a golf tournament that raised $1,000 in support of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy Dream Fund, a special budget created by the association three years ago to assist ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy with college visits, involve students in school and community projects, and help students and families when unexpected life situations arise.

Darris Means '05, assistant director of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, recently earned the Love of Learning Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The award helps fund graduate studies or career development opportunities for active members of Phi Kappa Phi.