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Four new majors will be offered to ������Ƶ students starting in the fall. Early childhood education is an addition to the School of Education’s programs; information science replaces the current computer information systems major in the Department of Computing Sciences; and public health studies, and arts administration, are both interdisciplinary majors within ������Ƶ College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

Yale University professor Jacob Hacker, a nationally recognized figure known as the "father of the public option," believes the passage of legislation in 2010 was the "easy part" of reforming health care in the United States, and during his March 31 visit to ������Ƶ he explained the challenges that remain in making sure all Americans have access to health insurance while reducing overall medical costs.

������Ƶ alumna Jenny Vanyur and associate professor Cindy Fair have had an article, "Sexual Coercion, Verbal Aggression, and Condom Use Consistency Among College Students," published in the most recent volume of the Journal of American College Health.

Associate professor Cindy Fair and Lauren Taylor '10 presented research at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, where more than 20,000 attendees converged for the July 18-23 event.

Associate professor Cindy Fair and ������Ƶ alumna Taylor Morrison '10 have co-authored an article published in Midwifery based on Morrison's ������Ƶ College Fellows project, “The relationship between prenatal control, expectations, experienced control, and birth satisfaction among primiparous women."

North Carolina residents are divided on the way President Barack Obama is handling his job as president, but more than half the state disapproves of how Bev Perdue is fulfilling her duties governor, according to the latest ������Ƶ Poll.

Ever wonder what the devil’s eye view is on religion, politics, evil, Disney? Jeffrey C. Pugh, the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies, on Thursday night will read from his latest book - Devil's Ink: Blog from the Basement Office - to address these and other concerns that perplex and mystify humans in the present age as part of the ������Ƶ Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture.

A husband-and-wife research team discussed with an ������Ƶ audience Wednesday night their work on a type of education reform that shows promise for elementary school students who need more help with reading and math concepts than is typically offered in the traditional classroom.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus and Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry will headline ������Ƶ’s two Convocation ceremonies during the 2011-2012 academic year.