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With relatives in Syria and steeped in its history, Assistant Professor Haya Ajjan writes in a newspaper guest column about the need for U.S. military involvement to end a brutal civil war while putting a stop to the use of chemical weapons in her home country.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty experts, joined by a colleague from UNC Chapel Hill, explored on Sept. 11 the complexities of resolving a civil war in Syria that has escalated with the use of chemical weapons.

The author of "Little Princes" visits ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ for a 7:30 p.m. talk about his New York Times bestselling book and his nonprofit's efforts to reunite children separated from their families by human traffickers during Nepal's civil war.

This fall's POWERless campus contest featuring "COMPETE to CONSERVE" marks the 10th competition designed to promote and reward energy conservation in residential facilities. Competition begins Sept. 17.

Harvard graduate Chris Nowinski made a name for himself in professional wresting, but when a head injury ended his career, he wrote a book and started a nonprofit with the mission of solving the sports concussion crisis.

The chair of the Department of Psychology will assume her new role at the university starting in January 2014.

Kirstin Ringelberg, Kathy Matera and David Crowe in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ College, the College of Arts and Sciences, last month received Faculty Excellence Awards for the 2012-2013 academic year.

New students affirmed their commitment on Thursday morning to the virtues of honesty, integrity, responsibility and respect in the university’s eighth annual Call to Honor program.

President Leo M. Lambert joined with faculty and Residence Life staff on Tuesday evening to set the tone and hopes for student life in the university’s newest residential complex.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Junot Díaz shared with an ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ audience on Tuesday his approach to writing, his concerns about the way minorities are marginalized in the United States - and how he thinks American youth can change the world.