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������Ƶ President Leo M. Lambert announced this week a special campus initiative to collect and distribute school supplies to hundreds of homeless children in Alamance County and to children at a school in Afghanistan who struggle for access to basic educational materials.

Town & Country, the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States, picked ������Ƶ in an 11-page feature story on top colleges in the September 2011 issue. The top colleges were recommended to the magazine by counselors at dozens of private high schools across the country.

������Ƶ's Campus Shop will be moving from Moseley Center to its new location in the ������Ƶ Town Center at 130 N. Williamson Ave. next to the Acorn Coffee Shop this week. The bookstore will reopen as Barnes & Noble at ������Ƶ on Monday, Aug. 22. Movers will be in the Moseley location on Tuesday, Aug. 16, and Wednesday, Aug. 17, to move items to the new location. Both locations will be closed Aug. 18-21 in order to move the technology and register systems.

The best and brightest of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business were honored April 14, 2011, in an afternoon awards ceremony that highlighted the achievements of both students and faculty.

A $250,000 endowment gift to the Ever ������Ƶ Campaign from The Levine-Sklut Family Foundation will significantly expand the university’s Jewish Studies program by establishing The Lori and Eric Sklut Emerging Scholar in Jewish Studies. This gift was made possible thanks to ������Ƶ parents Eric and Lori Sklut, of Charlotte, N.C.

������Ƶ's board of trustees voted April 15 to establish a new School of Health Sciences, serving graduate students in the existing doctor of physical therapy (DPT) program along with students in the new physician assistant (PA) studies master's program, which will enroll its first class in January 2013.

Forty-one percent of ������Ƶ alumni in the Class of 2011 had accepted a full-time position by the day they received their diplomas, the highest percentage in five years of students reporting employment at time of graduation, according to initial results from the Cap & Gown survey administered by the Office of Career Services to seniors prior to Commencement.

Sixty-eight students representing several majors have been participating this summer in a domestic summer internship programs in both Los Angeles and New York. While in their respective cities, students take an academic course on Mondays and complete internships the rest of the week. The structures of the nine-week programs vary, but students receive the same general experience, as they live, take classes and do internships in a major American city.

This week, ������Ƶ Career Services' LinkedIn profile reached 3,000 1st degree connections with an expanded network of 11,220,000 people.

������Ƶ professors, students and alumni continue to make news this summer through their research and campus activities. Notable in recent weeks was regional media coverage of ������Ƶ School of Law's full accreditation from the American Bar Association, regional stories and broadcasts on ������Ƶ's new head women's basketball coach, and mention of the ������Ƶ Poll by the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.