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With "ENGage your Passions, PoWeR your Lives!" ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's English Department joins forces with the Student Professional Development Center to host an inaugural career event designed for majors, minors and all students interested in the humanities. The event will be held Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Lakeside meeting rooms from 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. 

The grant will allow Biology major Alina Iwan '19 to travel to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama in 2019 to continue a faculty mentored research project. 

The group of 18 students, faculty and staff volunteered with Second Harvest Food Bank in Southeast North Carolina to sort and clean donated goods in the first of a series of service trips to the area to assist with Hurricane Florence relief.

The program has seen continued growth and success in recent years, with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ named as a top producer of Peace Corps volunteers by the service organization earlier this year. A fall kick-off celebration for the program will be held on Oct. 30.

4:15 to 5:15 p.m.,  ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Student Professional Development Center, Moseley Center

6:30 to 8:30 p.m., McClendon Auditorium, Duke University Fuqua School of Business

5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Upstairs Lakeside, Moseley Center

Get your popcorn - or Day of the Dead sugar skulls - Let's talk about the depiction of death and loss in popular media. 

Residential dining stations on the first floor of McEwen opened Thursday, Oct. 25, with Pei Wei and Village Juice Co. on the second floor of McEwen to open for dining on Nov. 7. 

In collaboration with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty and staff members, 10 students began working on the project in March. The final product was recorded live at the Paramount Theater in Burlington.