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The entry deadline is Dec. 13, 2013, for a student competition focused on human rights that will award cash prizes totaling $3,600. Categories include: research papers, journalism, electronic media, creative writing, photos, and world languages

Jessie L. Moore, Peter Felten, and Michael Strickland contributed a chapter on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Faculty Writing Residencies to a new edited collection. "Supporting a Culture of Writing: Faculty Writing Residencies as a WAC Initiative" describes the annual writing residency that the authors launched in 2006. 

Connotation Press has published three poems by Professor of English Kevin Boyle.

A four-day event organized by the university’s Center for Engaged Learning has drawn to North Carolina hundreds of scholars from around the world with an interest in the “disruptive forces” that are changing the way students learn.

In ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s 2013 Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture, author Taylor Branch reminds his audience that despite progress born from the civil rights movement, the American system of government and its democratic principles remain fragile.

The award includes a film set and $1,200 programming stipend to be used to provide scholarly presentations and exhibit four documentaries with new footage illustrating the history of civil rights in America.

The associate professor of English on Sept. 10 discussed her new book, "Beyond 'The Chinese Connection': Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production," with host Frank Stasio.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Junot Díaz shared with an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ audience on Tuesday his approach to writing, his concerns about the way minorities are marginalized in the United States - and how he thinks American youth can change the world.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students, faculty and staff visited the center on the first floor of Belk Library to learn more about support and services available to the campus community.