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A semesterly residential contest that challenges students in residence halls to use less energy starts this week and ends just before Spring Break.

Three ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ seniors debut original stage productions this week in Yeager Recital Hall for a program that celebrates their creativity as Honors and ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College fellows in the Department of Performing Arts. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. each night.

Todd Leonard '14 credits resources available through the Student Professional Development Center for teaching him some of the best practices he used through the "ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in LA" program to secure a late-night TV internship.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas "came out" as an undocumented immigrant three years ago and shared his story with an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ audience on Feb. 22 during the Intersect: Diversity & Leadership Conference.

Glenda Phillips Hightower visited the university on Thursday and spent part of her day talking with current students about her struggles and triumphs in 1963 as ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's first full-time African-American student.

“Getting Students Into Your Organization” offered insight and clarification about recruiting ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students to participate in local nonprofit organizations and agencies.

Hundreds of educators, business leaders and policy makers took part in the event at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, N.C., from Feb. 10-11, 2014.

The March 2014 edition lists ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ among "three college dance science programs to consider" in an article headlined "Where Science and Dance Meet."

For the second year in a row, the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement organized a "Fake Break" program to help communities still recovering from the 2012 hurricane.

The Winter Term course "Disarming Injustice: Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement" included visits to the 16th Street Baptist Church and the National Voting Rights Museum.