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���ϲ����� Director of Choral Activities and associate professor Stephen A. Futrell appeared as featured guest vocal soloist with the National Youth Choir at Carnegie Hall on April 3.

Professor Anne Bolin was the invited speaker for the The Cultural Anthropology Graduate Speaker Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., on March 18. Her presentation was titled “Complicating Gender: Border Crossings and Back.”

���ϲ����� students in a spring semester computer information systems class are learning more about the Alamance County community as they work together to design websites for local agencies that help the mentally and developmentally disabled.

News & Observer reporter Yonat Shimron, University of South Carolina journalism professor Cecile Holmes and Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell will participate in a April 4 panel moderated by ���ϲ����� professor Tom Arcaro, discussing the portrayal of atheism through local and regional media and how this influences society. The event takes place in the LaRose Digital Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Writer and filmmaker Molly Secours will provide a critical perspective of racism and privilege as it affects all aspects of life in the keynote speech Saturday in Whitley Auditorium during the 2nd annual Diversity Leadership Conference.

Mike Berenstain is not “Brother Bear,” a character from the Berenstain Bears children’s book series created by his parents. As Berenstain likes to joke, having an older sibling makes him “Sister Bear.” It was that kind of humor that marked Berenstain’s visit this week to ���ϲ�����, where he told stories of his parents, Stan and Jan, while sharing with his audiences what the future holds for the furry family from Bear Country.

Author and illustrator Mike Berenstain, whose parents, Stan and Jan, created the iconic children's literature series The Berenstain Bears, visits ���ϲ����� this week for a public lecture that will explore the importance of early literacy and the art of writing and editing for children.

A national expert on the politics of health and social policy visits ���ϲ����� on Thursday evening for the James P. Elder Lecture in Whitley Auditorium. Jacob S. Hacker of Yale University delivers remarks at 6:30 p.m. in his address, "Reform 2.0: The Battle over the Future of American Health Care," where he will examine what's ahead in the ongoing debate over national health care reform.