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Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Miya Micole Stodghill, a business administration major from Decatur, Ga., has been named the recipient of the second annual Martha and Spencer Love Excellence in Business Leadership Award.

When it comes to fruits and vegetables, about the only place you can find anything fresher than the produce at a local farmers market is in your own garden. But markets offer another benefit – informal associations with others in a community – that Â鶹ÊÓƵ economics professor Thomas Tiemann examines in the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Culture.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumna Katherine Southard was named 2nd runner up this month in the 2008 Miss North Carolina Scholarship Pageant, two years after surgery to correct a spinal condition that threatened her heart and lungs.

Brian Donnelly ’04 traveled to China in late May as part of a law school/MBA dual-degree program at Rutgers University. He landed in Beijing two hours before the earthquake rocked the Sichuan Province. Donnelly passed up sightseeing in Xi’an to travel to the quake epicenter to help out. The business administration major wrote about his experience.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, had a column published June 1, 2008, in the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. The column, "Rate Greensboro's Future," dealt with rating the preferred future vision of Greensboro and the region on three scales.