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In what has become a Homecoming tradition for successful young alumni, graduates of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and the School of Communications shared career tips and life advice Friday in "wisdom sessions" for current students as part of Homecoming 2010. Alumni from the School of Education held a similar program Saturday morning prior to the official start of football festivities around campus.

The Department of Environmental Studies has created an additional major, and a new minor, for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students with an academic or career interest in the fields of sustainability, wildlife ecology and conservation.

Imploring students to follow “their heart’s desire” when deciding how to best advance their communities and country in the years ahead, venture capitalist and former NASA astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. shared stories from his career Wednesday in a ceremony to honor him as the second recipient of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor society for first-year students, welcomed its newest members from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ on Oct. 25, 2010, in a McKinnon Hall ceremony to celebrate their academic achievement.

Associate professor Hunter Bacot joined with leading political scientists in North Carolina on Oct. 19 for a panel discussion on the 2010 elections, an event in Raleigh, N.C., sponsored by the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation.

When a young toddler dies after swallowing beads made by “Happyland Toys,” his father sues the company. That’s the premise of a fictional lawsuit argued Oct. 15-17 in the 4th annual Carolina Classic Mock Trial Invitational at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, which brought to campus some of the biggest names in undergraduate mock trial competition, including Harvard, George Washington University and the University of Virginia.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ staff and students made presentations this month at the annual conference of the National Society for Experiential Education held in Charlotte, N.C.

Kathryn Wheet ’04 helps students receive a worldly education as an international programs advisor at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, but for two weeks in July, she brought the world home to children in her native Maryland as a volunteer with the nonprofit World Artists Experiences through a university service sabbatical with Project Pericles.