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Verona Daniels Danieley, 87, a fixture of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ community for decades as wife of president emeritus Dr. James Earl Danieley, died June 24 at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, N.C., following a brief illness.

Each year, gifts from alumni, parents, friends, faculty and staff sustain and strengthen the hallmarks of an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ education. During 2010-2011, members of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ community contributed $5.3 million in annual gifts to the university, supporting close to 200 programs. Check out this end-of-fiscal-year video message from President Leo M. Lambert.

Former college and professional basketball star Charlotte Smith was introduced June 22 as ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's new head women's basketball coach. Smith has spent the last nine years as an assistant coach at her alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill, where she had an All-American career topped by a last-second shot that earned UNC the national title in 1995.

Bloomberg Businessweek ranks ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business among the nation's top undergraduate business programs in its 2011 rankings, which were released March 3. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ ranks #26 in academic quality and receives an "A" grade for facilities and services.