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The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø community has shown overwhelming support of Frank Dining Hall cashier Jean Brooks as she battles cancer. In the past month, $35,529 has been raised through a GoFundMe.com campaign set up by Christian Long ’13 in order to help with Brooks’s treatment expenses beyond what insurance covers. 

At ALANA’s Spring Soiree, Garfield O. Smith ’85 recognized the contributions of previous 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students who have paved the way for current students — including those receiving this year’s multicultural awards. 

Day two of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneur Weekend proved what Friday evening’s superstar panel had already established: Success is not a zero-sum game, especially when the players in question are student entrepreneurs in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Thought Into Action (TIA) weekend mentorship program. In a Shark Tank-like session on Friday night, three student ventures, each with […]

51³Ô¹ÏÍø was the center of the entrepreneurial universe for a few hours Friday night, April 11, when more than 2,000 students, parents, and others streamed into Cotterell Court for a frank and freewheeling panel discussion that featured some of the biggest names in the business of disruptive technology.

This discussion from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Entrepreneur Weekend features Ashton Kutcher, actor, director, entrepreneur and investor; Daniel Rosensweig P’15’17, former COO of Yahoo, CEO of Guitar Hero, and now CEO of Chegg; Tony Bates, former executive vice president of development and strategy for Microsoft, CEO of Skype, and head of enterprise for Cisco Systems; Brian Chesky, co-founder […]

51³Ô¹ÏÍø student entrepreneurs, showing the grit that Ashton Kutcher said was vital to success, pitched their ideas Friday night to an A-list of innovators who were on campus for the university’s third annual Thought Into Action Entrepreneur Weekend.

The Konosioni Senior Honor Society will host its annual charity auction tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Palace Theater. Konosioni holds the auction to raise funds that they allocate to nonprofit organizations in our community the following year. 

Douglas Johnson, associate professor of psychology, has received the 2014 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement. Faculty, staff, students, university trustees, and friends joined the celebration, which took place March 27 at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Inn. Established through a gift from Mark Siegel ’73, the Balmuth Award recognizes a faculty member whose teaching is […]