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The fifth annual Professional Discovery Week, a program by Career Services to provide students in all majors with opportunities to explore career options, learn effective job search skills and transition from college to career, runs Monday through Thursday with events scheduled across campus.

RecycleMania returns to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ this month for the university’s fifth year taking part in a recycling competition involving hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation, including 19 institutions of higher learning in the state of North Carolina. New this year is an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ campus contest where students spotted recycling at certain times of the week can win extra Phoenix cash for their efforts.

Hal Walker, department chair of Sport and Event Management, was recently invited to serve as a five-year external reviewer for Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., for the Department of Physical Education, Wellness and Sport Studies.

Campus Kitchen at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, a community program to serve meals to those in need in Alamance County, opened for the first time on Tuesday when top university leaders prepared lasagna dishes during a special College Coffee in the 1889 Grill Room.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Greek community hosted its 2nd Greek Summit on Feb. 4-5, with attendance from more than 125 student leaders, alumni, faculty and staff advisers, and national representatives of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's 22 current fraternities and sororities.

An article written by Matt Valle and Kevin O'Mara, both professors of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was accepted for publication by the Journal of Executive Education.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society inducted its newest class on Feb. 6 in an afternoon ceremony in Holt Chapel.

Emily Delaplane figured a video she created for her fall semester global experience course was just for a grade. When her relatives forwarded a link to her YouTube project to colleagues and friends, the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ freshman found herself with more than an “A” – and Delaware’s Office of the Child Advocate couldn’t be happier.

The six ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students in Egypt when demonstrations against the nation's president erupted last week have safely departed the country.