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The Department of Performing Arts will be collecting donations this spring for local agencies and, in return for contributions at select shows, will offer free tickets to future performances.

Three students from the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, along with faculty members Deborah Long and Brooke Barnett, were featured guests on the Nov. 11 broadcast of "The State of Things" by National Public Radio affiliate WUNC in Chapel Hill. The interview could be heard live on 91.5 FM and is now online for listeners to access.

David Noer, professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has received the Best Practice Institute’s 2009 "Leading Thinker Award" at the institute’s Nov. 11 Senior Executive Board meeting.

Thirty-five faculty and community agencies participated Nov. 5 in The Kernodle Center for Service Learning’s first Fall Campus-Community Networking lunch on campus.

It’s a stereotype that persists to this day: Acclaimed African-American choral conductors are usually regarded for only having expertise in the area of gospel music and spirituals. Yet premier conductors, regardless of race, share so much more in common. Gerald Knight, an assistant professor of music, examines those traits in his first book, Two African American Choral Conductors: Eroding Misconceptions Through Excellence.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Wake Forest University Angell Center for Entrepreneurship co-hosted the 2nd annual University Entrepreneurship Summit of North Carolina in the Winston-Salem, N.C. on November 4.

Charlie Remy ’07, a double major in Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies while at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, will be a guest on a live Boston radio call-in program Sunday night when he talks about his experience with Asperger’s syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.

Stephen A. Futrell, an associate professor of music, presented Nov. 7 at the North Carolina Music Educators Association In-Service Conference.

Entrepreneurship students participated Oct. 29 in The Indus Entrepreneurs of Carolina’s (TiE) networking event at the Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. The students networked with approximately 60 high growth and technology entrepreneurs as part of their Entrepreneurship Skills course taught by Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.