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A recent ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ 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.

After decades of civil war, a fragile peace exists today in the southern Sudan.  While people have hoped that the peace accord there could serve as a model for ending genocide in the African nation's western province of Darfur, there are growing fears that calm in the south could unravel.  One ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ professor has shown that sources of hostility for the Sudan have deep historical roots.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students and faculty are planning a trip to the second-poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere to help build what one trip leader dubbed “a mini Honduran Wal-Mart.” Proceeds from the trip benefit a charity that aids impoverished children.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has once again been named the top organization in Alamance County for the amount of blood its students, staff and faculty donate to the American Red Cross. And the Red Cross continues to look for more donors during the holidays, a time when blood supplies everywhere begin to dwindle.

The shampoo vials you took from the hotel at the beach last summer? Samantha Tremblay wants ‘em. She'll also take the free shower caps and hand soap. Tremblay, an ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ senior, is the driving force behind a nonprofit that collects toiletries for impoverished families. And she’s trying to expand her reach.

He “wrote like a maniac” for a year until his pen spun out with a bad case of writer’s block. But after accepting an offer to join ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's religious studies department in 2005, L.D. Russell hit the literary gas pedal once more. His finished work, “Godspeed: Racing is My Religion,” explores how NASCAR can be a religious experience for its fans – just like it is for him.

An ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty member was honored this fall for her research on the way writers at marketing communication agencies draw on personal knowledge to write effectively, even if they at first know little about their clients' corporate practices.

Thirty-three candidates in the university’s DPT program received their degrees on Dec. 9, 2007, in a ceremony featuring remarks from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ President Leo M. Lambert and an address from Steven L. Wolf, a professor and director of research at Emory University’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.