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The company that oversees all food and catering operations at �鶹��Ƶ presented a $50,000 gift to school leaders Tuesday morning at College Coffee to fund a new community service program set to begin this year on campus.

The Sierra Club named �鶹��Ƶ one of the nation’s top “Coolest Schools” in the environmental group’s fourth annual rankings of America’s greenest campuses. It is the second consecutive year that �鶹��Ƶ made the list, which rates schools in categories that include academics, waste management and energy efficiency.

�鶹��Ƶ Career Services this week presents “Career Kick-off,” a series of events to help students and alumni network, meet employers, find jobs and internships, and “survive the cut” in a competitive job market.

�鶹��Ƶ has provided faculty in the School of Communications and in the Department of Computing Sciences with Apple iPads as a form of professional development and to help keep professors at the forefront of using technology in the classroom.

“Text as the Basis for Text-less Music: 11th Century Poetry Meets a 21st Century Composer,” a symposium sponsored by �鶹��Ƶ's Department of Music with contributions from the Department of English, takes place Sept. 13-15 to address the way in which instrumental music evokes, interprets and represents poetic texts, and the process by which composers craft “abstract” sounds from written sources.

�鶹��Ƶ students ran, tossed, tumbled and dodged last week as they participated in Sportsfest 2010. See the Sept. 3 event through the eyes of university photographer Kim Walker in a photo gallery now available online.

Less than two years after President Barack Obama won office with a tidal wave of voter support for the Democratic Party, Republicans are on the verge of their own historic movement and will likely reclaim majority status in at least one chamber of Congress, according to a national political analyst who visited campus this week for a series of classroom and public events.

Career Services this week is introducing “�鶹��Ƶ Employer Partners,” a new program to build more awareness of top companies seeking �鶹��Ƶ job candidates. Featured partners include four Fortune 500 companies: EMC Corporation, Credit Suisse, Lowe’s Companies, and E. & J. Gallo Winery, as well as regional organizations such as Curtis Media Group, many of whom are participating in �鶹��Ƶ’s upcoming Fall Career Kick-Off.