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North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue has appointed School of Education Dean David Cooper to the Governor’s Education Transformation Commission, a new board of influential leaders who will advise the governor on the use of federal “Race to the Top” funds for implementing the “Career and College: Ready, Set, Go! Initiative” across North Carolina.

For the next two weeks, ������Ƶ is hosting a traveling NASA exhibit that showcases images of the universe taken from the Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer telescopes, and an astronomy class led by assistant professor Dan Evans presented the community outreach project to students and faculty Tuesday at College Coffee on the Phi Beta Kappa Commons.

Jo Watts Williams ‘55 has dedicated much of her distinguished career to ������Ƶ, and on Saturday, the sisters of a sorority Williams joined in the 1940s honored her with the inaugural Tau Zeta Phi-Sigma Sigma Sigma “Heart of Gold” Award for her inspiration and life of selfless service.

������Ƶ entrepreneurship students hosted the visit of the founders of Texas Natural Resources, LLC to the ������Ƶ on October 25.

In May, NASA will point its Chandra X-Ray Observatory toward a black hole 150 million light years from Earth to collect data for more than three straight days, the longest observation ever made on such a cosmic feature. Leading the team behind the deep space research will be Dan Evans, one of ������Ƶ’s newest faculty members, and a rising star himself in the realm of astrophysics.

The ������Ƶ Black Alumni Network honored five past and present ������Ƶ employees Saturday night in a Homecoming banquet to celebrate influential people who contributed to the success of black students on ������Ƶ's campus and to the newly endowed Black Alumni Scholarship.

Associate professor Lauren Kearns is teaching a master class at the Penn-Griffin School of the Arts in Greensboro, N.C., on Nov. 5, 2010, and her company is performing that evening as part of the 20th anniversary tour of the N.C. Dance Festival.

������Ƶ senior Anthony Rizzuto has been named the recipient of a 2010 Eastern Analytical Symposium Student Research Award, a highly competitive national prize in the chemistry field given each year to six undergraduate researchers.