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Three out of every four North Carolina residents believe the current health care system in the United States is in need of reform, according to the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll, and 54 percent of residents support health insurance legislation that would include a public option.

From teaching science through engaged learning in India, to experiences living in Berlin for a summer, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students shared research and stories in McKinnon Hall on Thursday evening in the second annual Study Abroad Forum, an event designed to celebrate and recognize their work.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society, has voted to establish a new chapter at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ. The decision was made Oct. 2 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Texas. The 57 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty and staff who are Phi Beta Kappa members will receive a charter, and the chapter will be officially established in spring 2010. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s formal application for the chapter was submitted in November 2006 by Russell Gill, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of English and chair of the faculty’s Phi Beta Kappa Committee.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Danny Bell and junior Charley Costa won top honors this weekend in the 2009 Eller Ethics Case Competition, a prestigious national contest hosted by the University of Arizona and featuring many of the top-ranked undergraduate business schools in North America.

More than 130 students were inducted Oct. 26 into the Phi Eta Sigma national honor society for first-year students. Each fall, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students who maintained a grade point average of 3.7 or higher during their first year are invited to become members.

Relive Homecoming 2009 with a gallery of photos taken over the weekend by university photographers Grant Halverson and Dan Anderson. From the wisdom sessions on Friday to the football game on Saturday, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students and alumni showed their maroon and gold spirit, reconnecting with old acquaintances and making new friends.

President Leo M. Lambert gave special credit to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's community partners Oct. 19 when he received the inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award from The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ received the award for cultivating a campus culture that recognizes its responsibility as the member of a larger community.

The father of an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ freshman has authored a new book, What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, telling the true story of what happened when his oldest son befriends five children from Manhattan public housing projects on an asphalt baseball field in 1998.

The School of Education held its Teacher Education Induction Ceremony on Oct. 13, 2009, in the Koury Business Center's LaRose Digital Theatre, a ceremony that recognized dozens of students as they take the next step in their path to the classroom after ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ athletics is asking fans to support head football coach Pete Lembo in the 2009 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award competition. The online voting Web site is open through Dec. 2. Read this note for details...