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Darris Means, assistant director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy, was one of five keynote speakers at the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Convention on August 6 in Kansas City, Mo.

Michele Woodson, a 2001 graduate of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's master of education program, has been named principal of Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Burlington, N.C.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Department of Mathematics is hosting the third summer institute titled TEAMS (Teachers Empowering all Students in Mathematics and Science), Aug. 2-6. Â鶹ÊÓƵ 60 elementary and middle school teachers from Alamance-Burlington, Vance and Orange counties are on campus for the institute.

Amy Stringer, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance, recently participated in The World Forum on Physical Education and School Sport on July 10 in Havana, Cuba.

Children’s book author Jane Belk Moncure made a visit to campus Tuesday as part of the Summer Learning & Enrichment Academy. Moncure, who earlier this year seeded an early childhood collection for the School of Education with a substantial donation of her books, spent time reading to children enrolled in the enrichment program for students with special classroom needs.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy scholars took part in closing ceremonies Friday evening that included “Presentations of Learning” throughout Alamance building, where families and mentors of 75 high school students could see firsthand the lessons learned over four weeks on campus this summer as part of the academic enrichment and college access program.

The grassy area in front of Mooney doubled as a hospital ward, battleground and infirmary Tuesday morning as several academically gifted students enrolled in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s inaugural Formative Learning Experience program – “FLEX” for short – learned about first aid and took turns dramatizing emergency situations.

It takes more than cardboard and trash bags to make a boat that can cross Lake Mary Nell. Mathematics, physics and engineering play a role in the process, too, as scholars in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy discovered Thursday afternoon when they set sail across the pond as part of the “Challenges in Engineering” course offered this summer in the academic enrichment program for Alamance County teenagers.

Kamol Jiyankhodjaev will be joining the faculty of the School of Education at Â鶹ÊÓƵ this month as a visiting Fulbright scholar from Uzbekistan. His Fulbright award is a joint appointment with Teacher’s College of Columbia University and the School of Education at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

“If you’re 7 years old, how many more years before you can come to Â鶹ÊÓƵ?” That was one of many questions School of Education Dean David Cooper asked second graders Tuesday at McDougle Elementary School in Carrboro, N.C., when he visited to share stories and information about the university as part of the school’s “go to college” mission.