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Ƶ completes Climate Action Plan

June 18, 2010

Ƶ has finalized a blueprint for shrinking its carbon footprint and promoting conservation in the coming decades by addressing energy use, transportation, solid waste and other sources of emissions on campus. The Climate Action Plan includes recommendations for incorporating sustainability and climate change into education, research and community outreach.

Visiting Fulbright scholar joins School of Education

June 18, 2010

Kamol Jiyankhodjaev will be joining the faculty of the School of Education at Ƶ this month as a visiting Fulbright scholar from Uzbekistan. His Fulbright award is a joint appointment with Teacher’s College of Columbia University and the School of Education at Ƶ.

Imagining the Internet study: moving from the desktop to “the cloud”

June 11, 2010

A new survey conducted by Ƶ's Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Internet Project finds that technology experts predict people who use the Internet will "live mostly in the cloud" by 2020, working primarily through applications based on remote servers and accessed through networked devices.

Students author books to assist local nonprofit center

June 9, 2010

Students in a spring semester English class have published two children’s books and a coffee table book to help support The Conservators' Center, a nonprofit exotic wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina's Caswell County.

Professor launches “idea summit” for journalism innovations in minority communities

June 8, 2010

An effort conceived by Ƶ associate professor Michelle Ferrier to reinvent journalism’s role in the nation's underserved communities, by seeding entrepreneurial media and technology ventures, will bring together this week several dozen leading media entrepreneurs and observers to an "idea summit" at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Ƶ professor receives NEH grant for new course

June 4, 2010

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded associate professor Shawn Tucker an Enduring Questions Grant to fund the development of a new interdisciplinary course, "Pride, Humility, and the Good Life," that will help students define their own concepts of pride and humility through research and analysis.

Q&A with Ƶ’s Drew Perry on debut novel

June 2, 2010

When Jack Lang, the owner of a North Carolina mulch company, impulsively buys the house across the street from where he lives, it’s the final straw for his wife, Beth, who flees into the arms of Jack’s best friend. What happens next is the plot to “This is Just Exactly Like You,” Ƶ associate professor Drew Perry’s debut novel and a work of fiction garnering rave reviews from national book critics.

Ƶ co-produces DVD on public information challenges

May 27, 2010

Following the 2001 terror attacks and a push for security of government information, constitutional protection for published works grew exponentially, making access to records, including traditionally public documents, more difficult for journalists. "Access Denied," a new DVD co-produced by the Ƶ Program for Documentary Production, chronicles that trend and offers additional tips and resources for reporters.