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Colby Halligan secured the nation's premier academic award for students dedicated to careers in the environment, tribal public policy or Native American health care.

The campus community gathered Tuesday morning in the Numen Lumen Pavilion to celebrate the life of Ed Watkins, an auto mechanic who died April 18 while fishing with a friend from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Physical Plant.

The university has been recognized for the fifth year in a row as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, author of the critically acclaimed "Living Downstream: An Ecologists’ Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment," visits the university on April 22 to share details and insights from her book.

The associate professor of education and longtime ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Academy instructor formally takes over this summer for founding director Deborah Long, who is now serving as interim dean of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s School of Education.

The 15th annual Philip L. Carret Endowment Thomas Jefferson Essay Contest asked students to write about the relationship between public education and the common good in the 21st century.

Senior Cameron Silverman took home the Southern Conference's top award in men's tennis for the 2014 season while Michael Leonard earned Coach of the Year honors for the second consecutive season.

Workers spent Tuesday morning planting a tree in a campus grove known as Under the Oaks after a winter ice storm last month led to the removal of a tree that predated ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's founding.

Professor Ann J. Cahill and Associate Professor Stephen Bloch-Schulman received the 2014 Lenssen Prize from the American Association of Philosophy Teachers for "Argumentation Step-by-Step: Learning Critical Thinking Through Deliberative Practice."

Recipient of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's 2013-14 Distinguished Scholar Award, Associate Professor Tom Mould - one of the nation's leading experts on folklore - will share insights into the way we tell stories about our lives during Tuesday evening's Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture in LaRose Digital Theatre.