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Twenty-five students from David Jackson's Entrepreneurship class and Maggie Miller's Marketing class visited prominent advertising firm McKinney in Durham on October 27.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law's John Alexander and David Gergen, chair of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Law advisory board, were involved in the selection process for U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Leaders" for 2009.

Prospective students and others interested in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Law are encouraged to explore the law school's signature program in leadership and the law, its innovative preceptor program, new clinical law programs, and much more through the 2009-2010 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law viewbook, now available online.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law faculty and students volunteered their time Oct. 16-18, 2009, to serve as judges for the undergraduate Carolina Classic Mock Trial Invitational Tournament hosted by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Undergraduate Mock Trial as part of the American Mock Trial Association's Fall Invitational Tournament schedule.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society, has voted to establish a new chapter at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. The decision was made Oct. 2 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Texas. The 57 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty and staff who are Phi Beta Kappa members will receive a charter, and the chapter will be officially established in spring 2010. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s formal application for the chapter was submitted in November 2006 by Russell Gill, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of English and chair of the faculty’s Phi Beta Kappa Committee.

The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's three-year Institutional Leadership Program concluded this month with the publication of a book authored in part by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty and students, as well as an international colloquium in Bloomington, Indiana.