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Several student organizations and campus departments have partnered to host a number of events in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2011. Organizers said their goal is to raise awareness of environmental and sustainability issues and to encourage positive action throughout the community.

Four out of five North Carolina residents support the construction of wind energy facilities in both the mountains and along the coast of the Tar Heel State, according to the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll, though half the state opposes the government promoting the increased use of nuclear power to address America’s energy supply.

Sometimes silly and sometimes serious, but always as "Satan,” ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professor Jeffrey C. Pugh read excerpts from his new book Thursday as part of the 2010-11 Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture before taking questions about the way evil is described in Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office.

North Carolina residents are divided on the way President Barack Obama is handling his job as president, but more than half the state disapproves of how Bev Perdue is fulfilling her duties governor, according to the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll.

Ever wonder what the devil’s eye view is on religion, politics, evil, Disney? Jeffrey C. Pugh, the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies, on Thursday night will read from his latest book - Devil's Ink: Blog from the Basement Office - to address these and other concerns that perplex and mystify humans in the present age as part of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus and Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry will headline ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s two Convocation ceremonies during the 2011-2012 academic year.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ will devote its annual spring Convocation for Honors on April 7, 2011, to an in-depth examination of five great problems facing humanity. Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, will moderate a panel discussion titled "We can be better: Courageous voices confront our greatest challenges." Distinguished panelists will explore tough choices that must be made to respond to threats to our democracy, economies, public education, the environment and civil stability around the world.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Drew Gardner travels to Washington, D.C., this week to share with lawmakers his research on concussions in student-athletes during the annual Posters on the Hill event sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research.

Though the United States faces daunting challenges, from a massive national debt to misunderstandings between people of different faiths to partisan gridlock, five distinguished panelists who visited ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ on April 7 for the annual Convocation for Honors program said today’s students have the potential to restore their nation’s global reputation for innovation, education and religious freedoms.