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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Provost Gerald Francis has announced the appointment of Tom Vecchione as the new executive director of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Office of Career Services. Details...

A Winter Term course at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ School of Law aims to get to the heart of leadership and its importance to solving legal problems in the public law sector. The intensive two-week course will give second-year law students the chance to learn about leadership theory and apply it through work on real issues with real community partners, such as Legal Aid of North Carolina and Action Greensboro. Details...

A group dedicated to the education of Ugandan children is today one of the fastest-growing student organizations on campus. The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ chapter of “Invisible Children” has raised more than $5,200 in the past year to sponsor a secondary school in the war-ravaged African nation.

Researchers led by an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ associate professor have identified in walnuts at least two molecules that may hold the key to better treating, if not completely reversing, the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, a fatal type of dementia that diminishes memory and affects behavior in older adults.

A recent ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ graduate has been named the recipient of a 2008 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, an award that will help in her graduate studies of documentary film production with a focus on social justice and women’s rights.