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The Department of Sport and Event Management recently held its annual end-of-year banquet to recognize graduating seniors and outstanding student majors and minors.

Heart attacks and other cardiovascular conditions kill thousands of Americans every day, and as a high school student, that statistic turned personal for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Amanda Clark. The biochemistry major focused her undergraduate research while at the university on identifying some ways that heart disease develops, which could in turn lead to better treatments, and her work is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.

Enjoy one of the final cultural events of the spring semester this weekend when the Department of Performing Arts presents On That Note... An Evening of Dance and Music, which opens Thursday night in McCrary Theatre.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, recognized distinguished student and faculty achievement over the past year in a May 5 ceremony.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ is hosting a special community event Monday afternoon, "Forum on the Death of Osama Bin Laden, Reactions at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ and Around the World, and Future Implications,” where a panel of faculty and students will facilitate a conversation surrounding the terrorist's death. The forum takes place at 5:30 p.m. in LaRose Digital Theatre.

Tyronna Hooker G'09, an exceptional children’s teacher at Graham Middle School in Graham, N.C., and a 2009 graduate of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Master of Education program, has been named the 2011-12 North Carolina Teacher of the Year.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi welcomed its newest initiates, selected for membership from the upper 7.5 percent of the junior class and upper 10 percent of the senior and graduate classes, in a May 2 formal ceremony in McKinnon Hall.

As the Class of 2011 prepares for Commencement in just over two weeks, the Office of Career Services has found that 88 percent of last year's graduates are either employed full time or are enrolled in graduate or professional school, according to results of survey information collected earlier this semester.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ junior Amber Mathis has received a Newman Civic Fellows Award from Campus Compact, a national organization that aims to improve community life and to educate college students on civic and social responsibility. She is one of 135 students from 30 states to receive the award.

What does revenge taste like? Whipped cream, apparently. Dozens of students took part in “Pie Your Professor” at College Coffee on Tuesday morning in a program sponsored by the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity to raise money for the American Cancer Society.