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Building social capital and relationships in the community were key platforms in Yvonne Johnson's successful campaign to become Greensboro mayor last fall. During a visit with second-year students at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ University School of Law Friday, Jan. 18, Johnson asked for their help in making Greensboro a better place to live and work. Details...

Innovative programs at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law—including the Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series, a symposium series on family businesses, and the Center for Engaged Learning in the Law—are being supported by several recent gifts to the university. Read this note for details...

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Provost Gerald Francis has announced the appointment of Tom Vecchione as the new executive director of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Office of Career Services. Details...

A Winter Term course at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law aims to get to the heart of leadership and its importance to solving legal problems in the public law sector. The intensive two-week course will give second-year law students the chance to learn about leadership theory and apply it through work on real issues with real community partners, such as Legal Aid of North Carolina and Action Greensboro. Details...

Researchers led by an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ associate professor have identified in walnuts at least two molecules that may hold the key to better treating, if not completely reversing, the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, a fatal type of dementia that diminishes memory and affects behavior in older adults.