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Yasmine Arrington's "ScholarCHIPS" program has provided 17 scholarships to date to children whose parents are imprisoned, and her work both on and off Â鶹ÊÓƵ's campus has caught the attention of nonprofit leaders and government policymakers.

10 a.m. on Sunday, October 19 in Numen Lumen Pavilion.

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has recognized Â鶹ÊÓƵ with a 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, an accolade that reflects ongoing university efforts to celebrate and support students, staff, faculty and alumni of all backgrounds and beliefs.

William Kamkwamba, the builder of a Malawi village windmill whose efforts are recounted in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s 2014-15 Common Reading selection "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind," is spending two days on campus this week to share stories about the power of persistence.

Research by Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Faculty Fellow for the Multicultural Center looks at the role of juvenile justice, child welfare and education systems on educational outcomes of African-American men in foster care and residential group homes.

Join us Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion for an event co-sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the Multicultural Center as students from diverse Christian groups on campus will lead prayer and worship for healing and reconciliation in response to recent events in Ferguson, Missouri.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ professors and students filled McKinnon Hall on Aug. 27, 2014, to discuss race, privilege and justice following the Missouri police shooting death of an unarmed black man and subsequent protests that have galvanized the nation.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. organized students, faculty and staff Tuesday for a group portrait at College Coffee to raise awareness of police shootings and controversial law enforcement practices across the United States.