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The announcement of two major gifts highlighted a 25th anniversary gala event for �鶹��Ƶ's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Students, faculty, staff and friends of the school gathered Feb. 5 to kick off a yearlong celebration of the school's founding in 1985. The gala featured the announcements of major gifts by �鶹��Ƶ parent and trustee David Porter and the Martha and Spencer Love Foundation.

The NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification announced that �鶹��Ƶ is one of 26 institutions to be fully certified as part of the NCAA’s regularly scheduled, ongoing athletics certification process.

By his own admission, the eminent American philosopher John Dewey never adequately articulated a theory of personality. Six decades after Dewey's death, �鶹��Ƶ professor Yoram Lubling offers that missing chapter by tracing the philosopher's developing understanding of personhood in a new book titled The Person Vanishes: John Dewey’s Philosophy of Experience and the Self.

Elizabeth Kolbert, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change and The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, visits �鶹��Ƶ on March 10 for an evening lecture sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum.

Thomas Edward Powell Jr. ’19, a native North Carolinian who spent his early career as a professor at �鶹��Ƶ College before founding the Carolina Biological Supply Company and its related enterprises, will be recognized this week as part of �鶹��Ƶ’s annual Founders Day celebrations to commemorate the lives of administrators, faculty and trustees who impacted the growth of the institution.

Two �鶹��Ƶ students have been named finalists for a 2011 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship awarded each year to college juniors with goals of working in education, government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, or elsewhere in public service.

Hundreds of middle and high school musicians from North Carolina and Virginia visit campus this week for a two-day jazz festival that includes workshops, performances and opportunities for students to work one-on-one with top jazz clinicians, including this year’s guests, trombonist Tom Brantley and Swedish pianist Per Danielsson.

It’s a common thought in educational circles that learning to improvise with jazz is a lot like learning a foreign language. �鶹��Ƶ senior Kaitlyn Fay wanted to find out how, and her undergraduate research is the first to be featured this year in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.

Nearly a year after health care reform was signed into law, North Carolinians remain divided on the legislation, though a majority of respondents in the latest �鶹��Ƶ Poll indicated their support for many of the law’s key provisions.

A majority of North Carolinians opposes making permanent a one percentage point increase in the state sales tax that was implemented two years ago, even as the state faces a $3 billion budget shortfall, according to the latest �鶹��Ƶ Poll.