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Campus Kitchen at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, a community program to serve meals to those in need in Alamance County, opened for the first time on Tuesday when top university leaders prepared lasagna dishes during a special College Coffee in the 1889 Grill Room.

Emily Delaplane figured a video she created for her fall semester global experience course was just for a grade. When her relatives forwarded a link to her YouTube project to colleagues and friends, the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ freshman found herself with more than an “A” – and Delaware’s Office of the Child Advocate couldn’t be happier.

Three ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students in an environmental communications course have had a class video project named a finalist for a PBS television special in April, and if their work receives the top number of votes in an online contest, the network may show the project this spring to a national audience.

A record-breaking number of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students leaped into the frigid water of Lake Mary Nell on Thursday in the 8th annual Polar Bear Plunge. Just shy of 150 students registered for the community event, with organizers awarding more than two dozen gift cards to area merchants and participants walking away with free T-shirts.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has been included in the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology 2010 campus sustainability case studies, the only database of its kind in the United States to highlight campus climate and sustainability efforts ranging from recycling and energy efficiency to alternative transportation systems and green jobs training programs.

The Southern Conference announced this week its Academic All-Conference Team for the 2010 fall season, with ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ at the top of the list of conference schools for the number of student-athletes who excelled in the classroom.

The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Board of Trustees voted Oct. 22 to designate a 56-acre undeveloped tract north of University Drive as the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Forest, a dedicated land preserve and natural area. The action protects the largest remaining intact forest in the Town of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and safeguards thousands of species of plants, animals and other organisms.

When it comes to engaged learning, students in the fall semester public administration senior seminar on food and agriculture public policies learned that it doesn’t get any more hands-on than processing chickens themselves, from the final clucks to the customer sales on a small Orange County organic farm.

Through a special Facebook project, many members of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ family have written personal tributes to those who bring light into the our community. Read what they have to say, watch a special video to get into the spirit, and then leave your message. Take time to give a simple gift, and let someone at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ know how much they contribute to life at our university. Links to the video and the Facebook page are below…

A special report by the Chronicle of Higher Education on graduation rates at 1,400 four-year colleges and universities highlights ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's improving rates at a time when many other schools are experiencing declining numbers. In this study, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ ranked #16 out of more than 300 private master's-level universities, the top school in the Southeast in this category.