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An organization that helps universities across North Carolina develop an ethos of volunteerism and service among students has awarded Mary Morrison, director of the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, its 2011 Civic Engagement Professional of the Year Award.

With the growing number of Spanish-speaking patients who visit emergency rooms and doctors’ offices across the country, medical professionals often confront language barriers that can hinder treatment. Public health researchers have taken note, and a new introductory Spanish textbook authored by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professor Ernest Lunsford takes aim at the problem.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert is one of five men being honored with a 2011 Father of the Year award by the Greater Greensboro Area Father’s Day Council.

David C. Porter of Sudbury, Mass., will be installed as the newest member of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees at the board's spring meeting, April 15-16. Porter and his wife, Jen, are the parents of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Tim Porter, and have served on the university's Parents Council and are members of the Founder's Circle of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Society.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ welcomes this week hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students from 23 colleges and universities for a four-day dance festival that includes classes, workshops, panels and performances, all centered around the theme of the intersection of dance, theater and multimedia.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Mock Trial program competes this weekend in a competition where the top six teams advance to the American Mock Trial Association’s National Championship Tournament in mid April.

Leslie Johnson needs your help to win $10,000 for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ. The manager of the Phoenix men’s basketball team, Johnson, a junior marketing major from Raleigh, N.C., is one of four finalists in a video contest sponsored by the UPS Store in which people can vote for their favorite collegiate basketball manager.

The economy trumps all other issues facing Alamance County, with the effects of a prolonged downturn impacting the social, health and behavioral well being of its residents, according to the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll. Poll director Hunter Bacot joined with leaders from the United Way of Alamance County and from Healthy Alamance on Tuesday to share findings in a midday news conference from campus.

Four out of five respondents in the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll would support an amendment to the state constitution that would make all public business of any government body in North Carolina open and available to the public.

The announcement of two major gifts highlighted a 25th anniversary gala event for ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Students, faculty, staff and friends of the school gathered Feb. 5 to kick off a yearlong celebration of the school's founding in 1985. The gala featured the announcements of major gifts by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ parent and trustee David Porter and the Martha and Spencer Love Foundation.