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Leary Davis, founding dean of the ���ϲ����� School of Law, will step down as dean on August 1. He will remain with the school as founding dean emeritus and professor of law, and will continue to teach courses in the law school.

Faculty members in ���ϲ�����’s philosophy department have collaborated to produce a special issue of a national academic journal focused on the theme “Philosophy as Transformative Practice.”

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in ���ϲ�����’s School of Communications, has been named the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Educator Award in the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

The ���ϲ����� School of Law has been granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association, substantially meeting ABA standards for curriculum, faculty, facilities, funding, library and admissions. The ABA approval, achieved at the earliest possible date under accreditation guidelines, means that ���ϲ����� Law graduates may take bar exams in any U.S. jurisdiction and may practice professionally with full rights after passing the bar.

What does it take to feed 15,000 athletes, their trainers, journalists and other support staff at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? Tag Gray, executive chef and a food services director at ���ϲ�����, is about to find out.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, has been elected vice president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) during 2008-09. He will become President-Elect in 2009-10 and then ASJMC President in 2010-11.

���ϲ����� senior Miya Micole Stodghill, a business administration major from Decatur, Ga., has been named the recipient of the second annual Martha and Spencer Love Excellence in Business Leadership Award.

When it comes to fruits and vegetables, about the only place you can find anything fresher than the produce at a local farmers market is in your own garden. But markets offer another benefit – informal associations with others in a community – that ���ϲ����� economics professor Thomas Tiemann examines in the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Culture.

Rain clouds gave way to a crystal blue sky as the 118th Commencement exercises got underway May 24, 2008, when bachelor degrees were conferred on the largest graduating class in ���ϲ����� history.