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Four ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ undergraduates and four ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Law students have been selected for 10-week summer internships with North Carolina state agencies. The N.C. State Government Internship Program, in its 38th year, is coordinated by the Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office in the Department of Administration. Details...

Douglas Finberg, senior vice president of international marketing for Paramount Pictures and a 1994 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ alumnus, will deliver ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's 2008 commencement address. Details...

Commencement exercises begin May 23 and continue through Saturday as ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ prepares to graduate its 118th class. Activities for seniors begin even earlier in the week with a class picnic, an evening gala, receptions and dinners.

University leaders conferred 40 degrees to MBA students in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business on May 23, 2008, during a Commencement attended by faculty, staff, family and friends.

If you look back far enough – 130,000 years, to be exact – people today share a common ancestor. For the Right Rev. Michael B. Curry, who delivered the sermon May 23 at Baccalaureate, that bond requires ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ graduates to leave what he called this “sacred place” and to always treat others as family.

After an extensive national search, campus leaders have announced that Jodean Schmiederer will join ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ as its new assistant dean of students, with overall responsibility for the Moseley Campus Center, Greek Life, Student Judicial Affairs, Student Activities, Summer Conferences, and Family Weekend.

Four professors were honored for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at the annual faculty-staff awards luncheon on May 14. Those recognized included Jim Bissett, Chalmers Brumbaugh, Brian Digre and Earl Honeycutt.

How did early American white plantation owners justify slavery when they worshipped every Sunday in the same churches alongside the black men and women whom they claimed to own? ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ history professor Charles Irons examines that question in a new book published this spring.

Student leaders from a variety of academic disciplines were honored May 1 during the annual Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony in Whitley Auditorium and in individual departments throughout campus.

A River's Reach, a new film involving students and staff from the School of Communications and Project Pericles, debuts next week at the Paramount Theater in downtown Burlington.