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Rebecca Smith, a sophomore journalism major and features editor of The Pendulum student newspaper, was one of nine students nationwide to be selected for a Scripps Howard Foundation 10-day journalism study trip to Japan in its annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

More than 60 ������Ƶ students have traded their textbooks and laptops for hammers and paintbrushes over Spring Break this week as they take part in service trips to Argentina, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, as well as locales closer to home such as the Gulf Coast and Charleston, S.C.

Gary Crittenden and Steve Young of Huntsman Gay Global Capital spoke about entrepreneurship and navigating difficult economic circumstances in McCrary Theatre on March 15. Their talk was hosted by ������Ƶ’s Student Entrepreneurial Enterprise Development (SEED) organization in association with the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

At the deepest point of the 2009 financial woes, a class of ������Ƶ philosophy students turned to 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson to help understand America's response to the economic meltdown. What they found is published in new book titled "The Only Sin is Limitation: Essays on R.W. Emerson's multi-faceted influence on America."

Three ������Ƶ alumni have been named recipients of Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships to help fund graduate studies overseas. Their recent selection brings to six the number of ������Ƶ students or alumni chosen for the prestigious award since 2006.

Your heart should tell you it’s good to offer free surgeries in poor nations for children limited by certain physical handicaps. Andrea “Drea” Dorrow, the sixth student to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars, can now tell you why it makes good public policy, too.

They come to the center from the streets, broken homes and jails where they served time with adults. Dozens of Filipino boys, victims of sexual abuse, seek refuge each year at the Stairway Foundation south of Manila – a place where sophomore Meagan Harrison last summer spent two months volunteering through ������Ƶ’s Ward Family Learning in Action Award.