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Dozens of Â鶹ÊÓƵ students are taking part in Alternative Break service trips this month to destinations across the United States, the Caribbean and in France. The programs were organized by the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement, the Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life, and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Teaching Fellows hosted a panel discussion on March 10 where past students shared their professional pathways and explained how they had achieved their places of leadership.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ welcomes this week hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students from 23 colleges and universities for a four-day dance festival that includes classes, workshops, panels and performances, all centered around the theme of the intersection of dance, theater and multimedia.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has collected more than 36,000 pounds of material in the first five weeks of the national RecycleMania 2011 contest and is currently in 9th place in North Carolina for the total amount saved from landfills.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has collected more than 30,000 pounds of material in the first four weeks of the national RecycleMania 2011 contest and is currently in 11th place in North Carolina for the total amount saved from landfills.

Assistant professor Jean Rattigan-Rohr made a trip this month to Portland, Ore., to observe Concordia University’s replication of a research project she developed at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Mock Trial program competes this weekend in a competition where the top six teams advance to the American Mock Trial Association’s National Championship Tournament in mid April.

Yumika Araki, an assistant professor of Japanese, and Dr. Ketevan Kupatadze, a lecturer of Spanish, presented March 7 at the International Conference on Technology, Education and Development held in Valencia, Spain.

In his celebrated career as a music producer, Elliot Mazer has created records for some of the most influential artists of the past four decades, and he now brings his knowledge to Â鶹ÊÓƵ as the Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Music Technology.

The NCAA's men's Division I basketball tournament gets underway this weekend with 68 teams vying for the national championship trophy. Tony Weaver, an assistant professor in the Department of Sport and Event Management, explains how money generated by March Madness is divided among tournament teams - and why the real benefit to making the Big Dance isn't necessarily financial - in the latest in a series of videos in which Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty members share their research and classroom expertise.