Articles by Eric Townsend
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“Landfill on the Lawn” promotes recycling
April 22, 2009
What does it take to show Ƶ students they may be throwing into the trash items that could be recycled? Try tearing open black garbage bags outside the Moseley Center. Members of the university’s Green Team and Sierra Club did just that Wednesday as one of several activities scheduled for Earth Week 2009.
Kenn Gaither, students featured in WFMY News 2 segment
April 22, 2009
Kenn Gaither, an assistant professor of communications, and three seniors in his international public relations capstone course were interviewed April 20 for a segment on bilingual professors on WFMY News 2, a CBS affiliate in Greensboro, N.C.
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour inspires Ƶ students
April 21, 2009
Excitement, energy, passion and purpose marked the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour’s visit to Ƶ on April 14 when three of the nation’s top young entrepreneurs inspired students to think entrepreneurially and pursue their dreams.
Pam Brumbaugh and Debby Wall attend INTERPOL Intern Forum
April 21, 2009
North Carolina Student Legislature selects Ƶ as best small university delegation
April 20, 2009
Ƶ’s delegation to the 72nd Annual Session of the North Carolina Student Legislature received the Best Small University Delegation Award for the 2008-2009 year at the weekend gathering in Raleigh.
Gary Palin serves as judge for National Social Entrepreneurship Competition
April 20, 2009
Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, was one of six judges on April 4 for the National Idea to Product Competition for Social Entrepreneurship hosted by the Purdue University.
Distinguished scholar Hanna Holborn Gray discusses liberal arts
April 17, 2009
Academic leader and celebrated scholar Hanna Holborn Gray discussed the historical evolution of universities and the role of foundational liberal arts studies in the annual James P. Elder lecture on April 16.
Campus Memorial Service for Milena Alvarez – April 21
April 16, 2009
There will be a university Memorial Service for Milena Alvarez at Holt Chapel on Tuesday, April 21, at 4:30 p.m. Milena was a freshman from Winston-Salem, N.C., who died earlier this month after a courageous battle with cancer.
DPT program helps man walk again
April 16, 2009
Jeremy Gates had one thing in mind: Learn to walk. Again. A July 2006 car wreck left the Burlington man in a coma for three months, but by the next summer, once he had met faculty and students in Ƶ's doctor of physical therapy program, reaching that goal didn't look so impossible.