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Advances in stem cell research have given medical researchers even more hope that organs such as kidneys and livers grown outside the body will in the next few years be an option to help patients awaiting transplants, according to a world-renowned researcher and surgeon who lectured March 26 at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· as the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

Dozens of ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· students are taking part in Alternative Break service trips this month to destinations across the United States, the Caribbean and in France. The programs were organized by the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement, the Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life, and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·’s Teaching Fellows hosted a panel discussion on March 10 where past students shared their professional pathways and explained how they had achieved their places of leadership.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· welcomes this week hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students from 23 colleges and universities for a four-day dance festival that includes classes, workshops, panels and performances, all centered around the theme of the intersection of dance, theater and multimedia.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has collected more than 36,000 pounds of material in the first five weeks of the national RecycleMania 2011 contest and is currently in 9th place in North Carolina for the total amount saved from landfills.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has collected more than 30,000 pounds of material in the first four weeks of the national RecycleMania 2011 contest and is currently in 11th place in North Carolina for the total amount saved from landfills.

Assistant professor Jean Rattigan-Rohr made a trip this month to Portland, Ore., to observe Concordia University’s replication of a research project she developed at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·’s Mock Trial program competes this weekend in a competition where the top six teams advance to the American Mock Trial Association’s National Championship Tournament in mid April.

Yumika Araki, an assistant professor of Japanese, and Dr. Ketevan Kupatadze, a lecturer of Spanish, presented March 7 at the International Conference on Technology, Education and Development held in Valencia, Spain.

In his celebrated career as a music producer, Elliot Mazer has created records for some of the most influential artists of the past four decades, and he now brings his knowledge to ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· as the Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Music Technology.