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The Class of 2015 gathered together for the first time “Under the Oaks” in front of the West residence hall on Aug. 26 as ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ administrators, faculty and student leaders welcomed them to the start of their academic journeys during New Student Convocation.

As families in luggage-laden minivans and SUVs arrive on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's campus each move-in day, you usually can count on one or two sets of twins to be among the new students. Not this year: the Class of 2015 holds six sets of twins.

Towing their suitcases and luggage trunks, their televisions and their refrigerators, more than 1,400 students in the Class of 2015 arrived at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ on Friday morning under a sweltering summer sun with humidity blanketing the region.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s three newest residence halls open this fall with hundreds of students scheduled to move into earth-friendly buildings designed to blend academic and extracurricular life. The debut of Colonnades C, D and E – now named Kivette Hall, William W. Staley Hall and William A. Harper Hall, respectively – represents the completion of The Colonnades neighborhood adjacent to the Koury Business Center.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s campus bookstore opened for business Monday morning in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Town Center on Williamson Avenue with students, faculty, staff and local citizens visiting a shop offering an expanded selection of college apparel, general interest books and school supplies.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert announced this week a special campus initiative to collect and distribute school supplies to hundreds of homeless children in Alamance County and to children at a school in Afghanistan who struggle for access to basic educational materials.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Campus Shop will be moving from Moseley Center to its new location in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Town Center at 130 N. Williamson Ave. next to the Acorn Coffee Shop this week. The bookstore will reopen as Barnes & Noble at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ on Monday, Aug. 22. Movers will be in the Moseley location on Tuesday, Aug. 16, and Wednesday, Aug. 17, to move items to the new location. Both locations will be closed Aug. 18-21 in order to move the technology and register systems.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Center for Leadership, in cooperation with the university's Center for Public Affairs, took part this summer in a series of workshops and training events at the 5th annual International Human Rights Law Summer Study Program in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Whitewater rafting, hiking, camping and rock climbing in West Virginia were on the docket this month for 64 incoming first-year students as part of Adventures in Leadership, a summer experience for rising freshmen sponsored by the Center for Leadership and Campus Recreation.