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A Commencement week tradition returned to campus Wednesday when the Senior Picnic brought students, faculty and staff together on the lawn of the Martin Alumni Center three days before the Class of 2014 graduates from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

Vital Signs travels to New York City next spring for a joint performance with several other a capella groups under the direction of the man who produced the television show “The Sing Off” and acted as vocal producer for the Hollywood hit “Pitch Perfect.”

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's 124th Commencement activities include picnics, receptions and more for graduates and their families.

The former tennis star visits campus on May 24, 2014, to share wisdom gleaned from a professional sports and broadcasting career that has included coverage of multiple Olympic Games.

If you're on campus or away from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, you can use social media to interact with the university this Commencement season.

Over the past two years, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior and Lumen Prize recipient Michelle Nussbaum has used a top award for undergraduate research to pinpoint the reasons many older readers find comfort in novels written for adolescent audiences.

Special Olympics of Alamance County, in partnership with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Volunteers!, hosted its annual Spring Games at Belk Track on May 2 with participation by hundreds of regional athletes.

The American Bar Association Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity and the ABA Young Lawyers Division announced on May 17 that ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Law’s student-led Diversity Week won first place in the annual Next Steps Diversity Challenge.

When Toorialey Fazly ’14 left Afghanistan in 2010 to come to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, he was expecting the experience to be uneventful. What Fazly, who graduates this spring from the university, found instead transformed his life.