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The Community Council of Alamance County has honored ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· associate professors Beth and Bud Warner this month for their volunteer service with the Mayco Bigelow Community Center at North Park.

More than 60 ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· students have traded their textbooks and laptops for hammers and paintbrushes over Spring Break this week as they take part in service trips to Argentina, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, as well as locales closer to home such as the Gulf Coast and Charleston, S.C.

Tammy Cobb, assistant director for community partnerships in the Kernodle Center for Service Learning, was named co-recipient of the Colleen Newsome Campaign Award from the United Way of Alamance County. The award is given to a campaign cabinet member (or members) who goes above and beyond their campaign position's performance criteria.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has been recognized for the fourth year in a row as a national leader in service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National & Community Service named the university this week to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for exemplary service efforts to America's communities.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· senior John McGreevy flew to Haiti over Winter Term as part of a research project. Within days he found himself helping the wounded, the widowed and the children made orphans following the impoverished nation’s largest natural disaster in generations. The environmental studies and biology double major from the Philadelphia region recently spoke with E-net about his experience.

A new BioBus route made its debut Tuesday afternoon as a group of faculty, staff and students traveled through Burlington as part of the Downtown/East Burlington Express Loop. The route will help will lead to a reduction in the university’s carbon footprint and assist academic service-learning and federal work study students who need transportation away from campus.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has been named to the list of “Top Peace Corps Volunteer Producing Colleges and Universities” by the Peace Corps with 15 alumni serving in an agency that seeks to promote a better understanding between Americans and citizens of host nations.