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After a month-long search, CELEBRATE! organizers have unveiled a new logo for the weeklong celebration that highlights student achievements in academics and the arts.

Jacy Lance, an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College Social Sciences Fellow, presented her research at the annual conference of the Southeast Council for Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), which took place March 16-19 at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

About 300 middle and high school students are expected to come to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Thursday, March 24 to participate in this year’s annual Envirothon competition.

In his celebrated career as a music producer, Elliot Mazer has created records for some of the most influential artists of the past four decades, and he now brings his knowledge to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ as the Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Music Technology.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has joined the American Association of University Women (AAUW), a nationwide organization that seeks to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. Alison Morrison-Shetlar, dean of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, made the announcement Tuesday, March 15, during College Coffee.

A New York-based nonprofit has awarded a $200,000 grant to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ and Wofford College for a joint project to assist departments at both schools in better measuring how students learn and to help assess efforts by both institutions to strengthen diversity and global engagement.

A team of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ researchers will examine the effects of concussions in student-athletes using a grant of nearly $17,000 awarded this month by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

Eleven Exercise Science majors and seven faculty from the Department of Exercise Science attended the 39th Annual Southeast American College of Sports Medicine meeting in Greenville, S.C., over the first weekend of February.