Articles by Eric Townsend
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Career Services hosts Best Practices and Legal Issues Program on Experiential Education
July 31, 2009
Thirty experiential education practitioners gathered on the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ campus July 30 to focus on best practices and legal issues in experiential education with the workshop 21st Century Experiential Learning: Examining Best Practices & Managing the Risks.
Digitized postcards preserve the past
July 31, 2009
A collection of postcards maintained by Belk Library offers a window into ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ history, from faded photos of the Old Main administration building that burned in 1923 to a newly opened Alumni Gym a quarter century later. Some of those postcards are now available for the public to view just by hopping online.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ researchers probe the memory power of gum
July 31, 2009
If the maker of Big Red and Juicy Fruit thinks its chewing gums have a monopoly on boosting your memory, it should think again. New work by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty member Amy Overman and her undergraduate researchers show that gum itself isn’t special – any candy or oral activity probably works just as well at sharpening the mind.
Ron Klepcyk returning to national board of CUPA-HR
July 31, 2009
Ron Klepcyk, director of human resources at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, will be returning next year to the national board of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
Incoming freshmen enjoy “Adventures in Leadership”
July 28, 2009
For two weeks this month, 64 rising freshmen participated in the First Year Summer Experience trip Adventures in Leadership.
BusinessWeek publishes column by professor emeritus David Noer
July 28, 2009
David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had a column published in BusinessWeek this month in which he offers company executives ways to manage stress when they are forced to make layoffs.
Mat Gendle, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy students featured in instructional video
July 27, 2009
Mathew Gendle, an associate professor of psychology, and several ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy scholars from summer 2009 have been featured in an instructor’s resource video produced and distributed by Carolina Biological Supply Company.
Iraqi artist answers student questions from Baghdad
July 27, 2009
Students in a summer sociology course had an opportunity this week to learn about recovery efforts in Iraq by interacting directly with an artist living in Baghdad who answered questions from them in an online chat.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ leadership program initiates summer international experience
July 27, 2009
The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Center for Leadership, in cooperation with the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Center for Public Affairs, has concluded its first series of summer workshops and training events at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Seminar explores ideas behind “democratic thinking”
July 23, 2009
Professors and staff from universities across North America will be meeting over the next two years to participate in an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ-sponsored seminar to develop and research methods for teaching students how to think in ways appropriate to democratic societies.