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Having a job while in high school means extra cash for going to the movies and filling up the gas tank, but is part-time work for high school students a negative thing? Steve DeLoach, professor of economics, examined this long-standing question along with Stephanie Franz ’11, recent ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ graduate, and Jen Platania, associate professor of economics.

Several major campus construction projects outlined in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Commitment strategic plan are under way, with completion expected this summer on some work, while other projects are getting started. Following this spring’s construction bidding process, timelines for several projects have been established.

Each year, gifts from alumni, parents, friends, faculty and staff sustain and strengthen the hallmarks of an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ education. During 2010-2011, members of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ community contributed $5.3 million in annual gifts to the university, supporting close to 200 programs. Check out this end-of-fiscal-year video message from President Leo M. Lambert.

Bloomberg Businessweek ranks ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business among the nation's top undergraduate business programs in its 2011 rankings, which were released March 3. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ ranks #26 in academic quality and receives an "A" grade for facilities and services.

Student leaders collected more than $28,000 this year from seniors, their parents, grandparents and friends through the Senior Class Giving Campaign, which asked students to make a gift to the area of campus that meant the most to their experience while at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

UNC-TV, North Carolina's statewide public television network, will broadcast "We Can Be Better: Courageous Voices Confront Our Greatest Challenges," at 10 p.m., Thursday, June 23. The program is an edited version of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's April 7 Convocation for Honors moderated by NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has released its President's List and Dean's List academic recognitions for the 2011 spring semester.

A team of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ staff and graduate students led by Ross Wade, assistant director of Career Services in the School of Communications, won an Innovative Excellence Award on June 2 from the National Association of Colleges and Employers at the organization’s national conference in Dallas.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior economics major Kaylyn Swankoski was awarded the 2011 Allen Starling Johnson Jr. Outstanding Symposium Presentation Prize for the April 29 presentation of her senior thesis at the Duke Economics Department 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

What does it take to sell someone on your idea for a new product or service? A good pitch certainly helps - especially one you can give to a prospective investor in less than a minute, a skill that won ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ junior Brian Serow top prize in a contest at the 2011 MIT Global Startup Workshop in Seoul, South Korea.