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Two ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professors in the Department of History and Geography shared from campus on Friday their insights about the Civil War with students in a U.S. history class taught by a former North Carolina Teaching Fellow at a high school 90 miles away.

For the second consecutive year, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students who took part in the annual springtime ELONTHON dance marathon raised more than $100,000 to benefit young patients and their families with the nonprofit Children’s Miracle Network and Duke Children’s Hospital.

After seven seasons as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Miami, Frank Haith '88 has been hired to the same position at the University of Missouri.

Tyronna Hooker G'09, an exceptional children’s teacher at Graham Middle School in Graham, N.C., and a 2009 graduate of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Master of Education program, has been named the 2011-12 North Carolina Teacher of the Year.

Letitia Lee '99, an accomplished artist and muralist, appeared in the Sunday, April 24, episode of the hit ABC reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." Lee designed and painted a mural for one of the bedrooms in the Virginia Beach, Va., home rebuilt during the show.