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After an extensive national search, campus leaders have announced that Jodean Schmiederer will join ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ as its new assistant dean of students, with overall responsibility for the Moseley Campus Center, Greek Life, Student Judicial Affairs, Student Activities, Summer Conferences, and Family Weekend.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Phoenix will enter the upcoming 2008 Southern Conference Baseball Championship as the number one seed after winning the regular season title outright with a 19-8 SoCon mark. The Phoenix finished one game ahead of College of Charleston (18-9) whose loss on the last day of the regular season gave ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ the title outright. It is the second SoCon title for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in three seasons.

Sophomore All-American football wide receiver Terrell Hudgins and senior All-Southern Conference women’s basketball point guard Tierra Bumbrey came away with Stein H. Basnight Outstanding Athlete Award honors at the 34th Annual ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Athletics Awards Banquet on May 13.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ parents Howard C. and Judy Pickett of Cary, N.C., have made a $110,000 endowment gift to enhance the university’s Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows program. The couple made the gift because of the transformative experience that their daughter, Hilaire, a senior, has had as a Leadership Fellow at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

Alpha Phi Omega, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's co-ed service fraternity, sponsored a "Pie Your Professor" event during College Coffee on Tuesday, May 13, to raise money for the APO Scholarship and ELONTHON. Click the link below to view a gallery of images from the creamy carnage.

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

Helping to make an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ education possible for additional deserving students was the motivation behind a $500,000 gift from the Hall Family Foundation. The gift was made in memory of Margaret “Peggy” Hall, a former Parents Council member and the mother of Gretchen Hall Archibald ’02.