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Molly McKnight Costigan, an Â鶹ÊÓƵ Spanish major, has been named the recipient of a 2010 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which will fund one year in Spain teaching in an elementary school while conducting an independent project.

Four faculty members were honored May 12, 2010, for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s faculty-staff awards luncheon. Those recognized included Eric Hall, April Post, Todd Lee and Jeffrey C. Pugh.

Immigration to the United States and other developed nations has become a hot-button topic as governments continue to focus on security following the Sept. 11 attacks. But not all nations deal with immigration equally, which Molly Costigan ’10 discovered in work that is the fifth in a series of E-net profiles to showcase Â鶹ÊÓƵ undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.

Sophie Adamson, assistant professor of French, and Paul Geis, assistant director for affiliations and exchanges, spoke at the spring meeting of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.

In mid-February, Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled "The Border-Crossing Experience in Recent Mexican and Chicano Theater" at the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies held in Baton Rouge, La.

Three Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni have been named recipients of Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships to help fund graduate studies overseas. Their recent selection brings to six the number of Â鶹ÊÓƵ students or alumni chosen for the prestigious award since 2006.