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Catherine McNeela, professor of performing arts and coordinator of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's music theatre program, has been named the university's William S. Long Professor, an honor named for the institution's first president. McNeela's appointment was made by President Leo M. Lambert in recognition of her 20 years of outstanding teaching, scholarship and leadership in developing ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s nationally recognized Music Theatre program.

Former Phoenix linebacker Chad Nkang has signed a contract to play with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

A 2009 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ alumna will have a documentary she produced as a student broadcast this month on One Africa TV. Erin Barnett's film, "My Name is Anita," introduces viewers to Anita Isaacs, a former Periclean-in-Residence at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and an HIV/AIDS activist in Namibia.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ alumnus Preston Williams Jr. ’09 was named one of four recipients of this year’s Diane Kent-Parker First Year Teacher Award in the Wake County Public School System, which serves more than 139,000 students in North Carolina’s second most populous county.

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The work of Ashley Lawson '07 on behalf of the homeless was spotlighted recently in a story published by the Santa Fe Sentinel, the student newspaper for Santa Fe College.