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Relive Homecoming 2009 with a gallery of photos taken over the weekend by university photographers Grant Halverson and Dan Anderson. From the wisdom sessions on Friday to the football game on Saturday, Â鶹ÊÓƵ students and alumni showed their maroon and gold spirit, reconnecting with old acquaintances and making new friends.

President Leo M. Lambert gave special credit to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's community partners Oct. 19 when he received the inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award from The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. Â鶹ÊÓƵ received the award for cultivating a campus culture that recognizes its responsibility as the member of a larger community.

The father of an Â鶹ÊÓƵ freshman has authored a new book, What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse, telling the true story of what happened when his oldest son befriends five children from Manhattan public housing projects on an asphalt baseball field in 1998.

The School of Education held its Teacher Education Induction Ceremony on Oct. 13, 2009, in the Koury Business Center's LaRose Digital Theatre, a ceremony that recognized dozens of students as they take the next step in their path to the classroom after Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ athletics is asking fans to support head football coach Pete Lembo in the 2009 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award competition. The online voting Web site is open through Dec. 2. Read this note for details...

Every room in the Koury Business Center was filled over Fall Break weekend for Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s 3rd annual Carolina Classic Mock Trial Tournament featuring 24 undergraduate teams from 16 universities, including Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Furman University and two-time national champion University of Virginia.

Young Kim dropped small lights from the rafters of a vacant office near downtown Grand Rapids to illuminate the dozens of salt and clay portraits he created on the ground below, but when his work fell short in the public voting of a Michigan art contest billed as “the largest in the world,” fans of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ assistant professor turned to Twitter – and their efforts proved the power of social media.

Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini visited Â鶹ÊÓƵ on Tuesday as the keynote speaker for Fall Convocation, and during his time on stage, the Afghan native implored students to travel the world in the coming years to better understand how events around the globe impact their lives at home.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ has received 1,400 doses of seasonal flu vaccine (not the H1N1 vaccine) which will be administered free to students, faculty, staff and retirees on Monday - Wednesday, Oct. 12-14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Moseley Center Fireside Lounge. Read this note for details...

Khaled Hosseini, the celebrated author of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s 2009-2010 Common Reading selection, comes to campus Oct. 13 for a moderated discussion during Fall Convocation. Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns traces the volatile events of Afghanistan's most recent decades as told through the eyes of two women whose lives are thrust together by war.