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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.

���ϲ����� has released the President's List and Dean's List academic recognitions for the 2008 spring semester.

A university senior who wants to combat childhood obesity, and a junior with plans to help disabled people learn to garden, are the recipients of the first ever Student Initiative Grants awarded by the Kernodle Center for Service Learning at ���ϲ�����.

���ϲ�����'s men’s basketball, women's cross country, women's golf and volleyball teams are among NCAA Division I teams receiving public recognition awards for their latest multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores. The public recognition awards, announced by the NCAA April 24, are part of the broad Division I academic reform effort.