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The School of Education held its Teacher Education Induction Ceremony on Oct. 13, 2009, in the Koury Business Center's LaRose Digital Theatre, a ceremony that recognized dozens of students as they take the next step in their path to the classroom after ���ϲ�����.

���ϲ����� athletics is asking fans to support head football coach Pete Lembo in the 2009 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award competition. The online voting Web site is open through Dec. 2. Read this note for details...

Every room in the Koury Business Center was filled over Fall Break weekend for ���ϲ�����’s 3rd annual Carolina Classic Mock Trial Tournament featuring 24 undergraduate teams from 16 universities, including Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Furman University and two-time national champion University of Virginia.

Young Kim dropped small lights from the rafters of a vacant office near downtown Grand Rapids to illuminate the dozens of salt and clay portraits he created on the ground below, but when his work fell short in the public voting of a Michigan art contest billed as “the largest in the world,” fans of the ���ϲ����� assistant professor turned to Twitter – and their efforts proved the power of social media.

Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini visited ���ϲ����� on Tuesday as the keynote speaker for Fall Convocation, and during his time on stage, the Afghan native implored students to travel the world in the coming years to better understand how events around the globe impact their lives at home.

���ϲ����� has received 1,400 doses of seasonal flu vaccine (not the H1N1 vaccine) which will be administered free to students, faculty, staff and retirees on Monday - Wednesday, Oct. 12-14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Moseley Center Fireside Lounge. Read this note for details...

Khaled Hosseini, the celebrated author of ���ϲ�����’s 2009-2010 Common Reading selection, comes to campus Oct. 13 for a moderated discussion during Fall Convocation. Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns traces the volatile events of Afghanistan's most recent decades as told through the eyes of two women whose lives are thrust together by war.

���ϲ����� senior Bryce Little has been keeping a blog of his study abroad experiences in Ghana this semester, and late last month, he posted a short story about a mid September canoe ride that ended with his efforts to keep a man who couldn’t swim from drowning when the craft sank into a lake.

The MBA program of ���ϲ�����’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is ranked as the nation's fifth "best administered" program in The Princeton Review's 2010 edition of the "Best 301 Business Schools."

Malaria kills as many as 3 million people worldwide each year, and for ���ϲ����� senior Amanda Brown, that’s 3 million people too many. The Ohio native, who is using her considerable mathematics skills to combat the disease, is the first student to be featured in a monthly series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of the university's Lumen Scholars.