Articles by Eric Townsend
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ELONTHON 2010 fundraiser tops $100,000
May 12, 2010
ELONTHON, the university’s annual 24-hour dance marathon to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network and Duke Children’s Hospital, raised more than $100,000 this year, organizers announced Tuesday in the final College Coffee of the semester.
Career Services uses Google Maps to show student outcomes
May 11, 2010
Ƶ Career Services has started utilizing Google Map system technology to highlight student outcomes and networking opportunities. Maps have been created as part of the ongoing effort to highlight direct measures of student success to the campus community.
Hunter Bacot speaks at N.C. Association for County Commissioners’ “Assembly Day”
May 11, 2010
Hunter Bacot, an associate professor of political science and director of the Ƶ Poll, spoke May 19 at the North Carolina Association for County Commissioners’ “Assembly Day.”
Tom Flood receives APPA credential
May 11, 2010
Tom Flood, superintendent of landscaping and grounds at Ƶ, has received the Educational Facilities Professional credential from APPA, an association dedicated to leadership in educational facilities.
David Noer management column published in News and Record
May 10, 2010
David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published May 9, 2010, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.
Professor receives Fulbright summer seminar award
May 10, 2010
Ƶ history professor Brian Digre has received a 2010 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad award, which will fund a six-week visit to the Gulf nations of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait for study and research.
Frances Ward-Johnson named AAASE Faculty Member of the Year
May 10, 2010
School of Communications associate professor Frances Ward-Johnson has been named the recipient of the Faculty of the Year Award from the African/African American Studies Program.
Ƶ student receives a Department of Defense SMART scholarship
May 10, 2010
Ƶ senior Kelsey Johnson, from Orchard Park, N.Y., has been awarded a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Program.
Ƶ Academy announces fourth class of scholars
May 10, 2010
Twenty-six rising sophomores from the Alamance-Burlington School System have been selected to join the fourth class of scholars in the , a college access and success program for academically talented students held each year on the Ƶ campus.
Lumen Scholar raises awareness of child soldiering
May 9, 2010
The abduction and abuse of children for the use of child soldiering is an epidemic in parts of Africa, and when Ƶ senior Katie Meyer first heard stories of forced conscription as a senior in high school, she took action. Meyer is the eighth student to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars.