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Sophomore All-American football wide receiver Terrell Hudgins and senior All-Southern Conference women’s basketball point guard Tierra Bumbrey came away with Stein H. Basnight Outstanding Athlete Award honors at the 34th Annual Â鶹ÊÓƵ Athletics Awards Banquet on May 13.

Alpha Phi Omega, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's co-ed service fraternity, sponsored a "Pie Your Professor" event during College Coffee on Tuesday, May 13, to raise money for the APO Scholarship and ELONTHON. Click the link below to view a gallery of images from the creamy carnage.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ parents Howard C. and Judy Pickett of Cary, N.C., have made a $110,000 endowment gift to enhance the university’s Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows program. The couple made the gift because of the transformative experience that their daughter, Hilaire, a senior, has had as a Leadership Fellow at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

A leisure and sport management class raised $1,050 for the United Way of Alamance County by hosting two events in recent weeks.

Helping to make an Â鶹ÊÓƵ education possible for additional deserving students was the motivation behind a $500,000 gift from the Hall Family Foundation. The gift was made in memory of Margaret “Peggy” Hall, a former Parents Council member and the mother of Gretchen Hall Archibald ’02.

Four professors were honored for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at the annual faculty-staff awards luncheon on May 14. Those recognized included Jim Bissett, Chalmers Brumbaugh, Brian Digre and Earl Honeycutt.

Student leaders from a variety of academic disciplines were honored May 1 during the annual Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony in Whitley Auditorium and in individual departments throughout campus.

It took some students upward of two years to research and write, but the effort was not without recognition. Honors Program leaders hosted a dinner banquet May 12 for seniors who completed an Honors thesis under the guidance of a faculty mentor.