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An organization that represents private colleges in North Carolina has awarded ������Ƶ a grant of nearly $15,000 to fund a summer program for students about to graduate from local high schools and who make up the inaugural class of the ������Ƶ Academy college access program.

������Ƶ’s fourth annual POWERless Energy Competition concluded this month with students in Danieley Center C receiving top honors for reducing their building’s power usage by almost a third of what it consumed during a baseline measurement period.

The New York-based Park Foundation has awarded the Periclean Scholars program at ������Ƶ a grant to send additional students abroad in January with the goal of producing a short documentary highlighting Sri Lanka’s outlook and actions on water issues, along with its ecological and socio-economic diversity. The film will be part of an environmental summit organized by the ������Ƶ students.

There may be no better way of encouraging children to read than by allowing them to choose a stack of new books for their home collections. On Wednesday evening, with the help of ������Ƶ students, that’s just what 22 elementary school students did with their tutors from the School of Education.

Members of the "Programming and Event Management" class in the Department of Sport and Event Management raised $525 to benefit the Campus Kitchen Project at ������Ƶ with a “Minute To Win It” event in McKinnon Hall on Nov. 16.

When it comes to engaged learning, students in the fall semester public administration senior seminar on food and agriculture public policies learned that it doesn’t get any more hands-on than processing chickens themselves, from the final clucks to the customer sales on a small Orange County organic farm.

Students led by associate professor Linda Sabo and Haidee Dollak, university accompanist, performed on Dec. 3 for two assemblies at Smith Elementary School in Burlington, N.C.

Heather Couture ’10 realized halfway through her studies at ������Ƶ that a public relations career simply didn’t fit her interests. The fashion industry, however, was a different story, and a senior year visit to Career Services led to her involvement with the Macy's Buying/Planning Executive Development Program in New York City.

The mayor of a Kansas town that turned itself into a “green” community following a tornado in 2007 visits ������Ƶ this month to talk about the challenges and successes his town discovered throughout the recovery and rebuilding process.

������Ƶ professors, students and alumni made regional and national news in recent weeks through their research and activities, both on and off campus. Notable this fall was coverage of the ������Ƶ Poll, the ������Ƶ Forest, and a new book on breast cancer recurrence by associate professor Barbara Gordon. The following list should not be considered exhaustive and does not include athletics news.