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Ever wonder how common earthworms grow back when cut in half? It’s a puzzle whose pieces are today the focus of research by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ senior Amelia Helms, the second student to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has received a grant of nearly $116,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize two history seminars next summer for community college professors from across the nation. Assistant professor John Beck authored the grant proposal and will co-direct the project with Jim Bissett, the William J. Story, Sr. Professor at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.

Three out of every four North Carolina residents believe the current health care system in the United States is in need of reform, according to the latest ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Poll, and 54 percent of residents support health insurance legislation that would include a public option.

From teaching science through engaged learning in India, to experiences living in Berlin for a summer, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students shared research and stories in McKinnon Hall on Thursday evening in the second annual Study Abroad Forum, an event designed to celebrate and recognize their work.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic society, has voted to establish a new chapter at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. The decision was made Oct. 2 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Texas. The 57 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty and staff who are Phi Beta Kappa members will receive a charter, and the chapter will be officially established in spring 2010. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s formal application for the chapter was submitted in November 2006 by Russell Gill, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of English and chair of the faculty’s Phi Beta Kappa Committee.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ senior Danny Bell and junior Charley Costa won top honors this weekend in the 2009 Eller Ethics Case Competition, a prestigious national contest hosted by the University of Arizona and featuring many of the top-ranked undergraduate business schools in North America.

More than 130 students were inducted Oct. 26 into the Phi Eta Sigma national honor society for first-year students. Each fall, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students who maintained a grade point average of 3.7 or higher during their first year are invited to become members.

Relive Homecoming 2009 with a gallery of photos taken over the weekend by university photographers Grant Halverson and Dan Anderson. From the wisdom sessions on Friday to the football game on Saturday, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students and alumni showed their maroon and gold spirit, reconnecting with old acquaintances and making new friends.

President Leo M. Lambert gave special credit to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's community partners Oct. 19 when he received the inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award from The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ received the award for cultivating a campus culture that recognizes its responsibility as the member of a larger community.

The father of an ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ freshman has authored a new book, What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, telling the true story of what happened when his oldest son befriends five children from Manhattan public housing projects on an asphalt baseball field in 1998.