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Alumni, students, families, faculty, staff and friends gave more than $2.5 million in gifts, showed their pride on social media, and attended events around the world in honor of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Day.

The honor recognizes 40 outstanding African American business and community leaders in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad.

The special Â鶹ÊÓƵ Day gathering inside Alumni Gym offered a chance for students, faculty, staff and supporters to celebrate the university they love.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ BFA Acting Alumna Becca Hurd '16 is bringing her internationally-acclaimed one-woman show, "The Other Side 25" to campus for a special performance in Roberts Studio Theatre on March 6 at 5:30 p.m. She will also conduct workshops with current BFAA Acting majors during her three-day residency.

Richard ’87 P’17 and Laurie Johnson P’17 extend their Â鶹ÊÓƵ legacy with a generous planned gift.

Twenty-one students attended the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, interacting with Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni working – and gaining recognition – in the film and entertainment industries.

The alumna’s undergraduate thesis explored female STEM student attrition.

Among medium-sized colleges and universities, Â鶹ÊÓƵ ranked No. 25 for the number of Peace Corps volunteers it produced in 2019.

Graduates in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2020 were urged to embrace their journey and show compassion in their work during the program's Commencement ceremony on Feb. 29.

Mustakeem, who was the first African and African-American Studies graduate at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and now serves as an associate professor of history and African and African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver an address during a March 9 luncheon in McKinnon Hall.