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The award, given by the National Bar Association, recognizes young lawyers under the age of 40 who demonstrate unprecedented achievement in law practice, politics, business or public service.

Join your fellow alumni in D.C. for a fun night at Alexandria Top Golf on July 15!

Besides having the highest percentage of its former student-athletes making gifts to the Phoenix Club, the team also placed third for its participation percentage increase.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s vice president emerita received a top North Carolina honor conferred by Gov. Pat McCrory and presented by State Sen. Rick Gunn and Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert.

In a Saturday morning Commencement address, the acclaimed sportscaster and former professional tennis star encouraged Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Class of 2014 to be guardians of the planet by showing kindness and respect to everyone they meet.

Delivering the commencement address for Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law’s 105-member Class of 2014, University of North Carolina president Thomas W. Ross, Sr., urged the class “to serve and to lead for the common good.”

Forty-three percent of Â鶹ÊÓƵ students in the Class of 2014 - an all-time high participation rate for the Senior Class Giving Campaign - contributed more than $52,000 this year to support areas of campus close to their hearts.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ parents Ed and Joan Doherty P’07, co-founders of a company that operates dozens of family restaurant franchises, offered wisdom May 23 to Master of Business Administration candidates gathered in Whitley Auditorium for Commencement exercises.

The Class of 2014 is sending more scholars overseas next year with Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grants than any previous class in Â鶹ÊÓƵ history.

MJ Jacobsen, senior vice president of communications for the National Geographic Society, challenged the 38 “digital natives” in the Interactive Media Class of 2014 to never be complacent about learning new things.