Alpha Psi Omega, Catawba College's Theatre Arts Honors Society, is sponsoring a service project, Broadway Cares: An AIDS Benefit, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 29 in Peeler Crystal Lounge of the Robertson College-Community Center on campus.

"Sound Solutions to Rising Health Care Costs" will be the topic of Bob Ingram's speech at the inaugural Distinguished CEO Lecture Series to be offered at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1 in the Peeler Crystal Lounge of the Robertson College-Community Center at Catawba College.

Catawba College's Ketner School of Business will host its Second Annual Business Hall of Fame on Saturday, November 8. The event which begins with a 6 p.m. reception, followed by a 6:45 p.m. dinner in Peeler Crystal Lounge of the Robertson College-Community Center on campus.

"Tartuffe" is a comedy that has been around almost 400 years, but in a new interpretation used by Catawba College's Theatre Arts Department, it seems amazingly current. Catawba's production of "Tartuffe," by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Moliere and interpreted by Maya Slater, opens in Hedrick Theatre on campus at 6:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 8.

Student organizations at Catawba College are working together to coordinate the institution's second annual Hunger Banquet. The event, planned by Volunteer Catawba, will draw student participation from on-campus organizations such as the Delphinian Society, a service organization for women. Proceeds from Hunger Banquet tickets sales will benefit an organization which works to end hunger, poverty and injustice.

It was a check for $1,668, but it was enough, Catawba College First-Year students learned, to build three houses in Rwanda and to feed a family of four there for an entire year. When Edward Cardoza, Vice-President of Development for the Boston-based non-profit Partners in Health, shared that simple mathematical fact on Tuesday, March 18 in Catawba's Keppel Auditorium, more than a few first-years' eyebrows were raised.

North Carolina Poet Laureate Kay Byer has selected Dr. Janice Moore Fuller's third poetry collection Séance to feature for the month of March on her segment of the North Carolina Arts Council website. Fuller is Professor of English and Write-in-Residence at Catawba College.

Catawba College's Catawba ONE organization will host a forum on international development at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 27 in the Tom Smith Auditorium in the Ketner School of Business. Topics to be discussed include various aspects of international development such as political, economical, and ethical issues.

Catawba College celebrates National Athletic Training Month for the month of March 2008. The Athletic Training Department is responsible for the health care needs of all 18 varsity sports.

Catawba College Alumnus Andrew "Drew" Allvine '93 and his wife Blake Burton of Atlanta have established a new scholarship at the institution through a deferred gift of a life insurance policy. The Andrew Earl and Blake Burton Allvine Scholarship was established through Catawba's Tower Society.

Need a fun and safe event for your children this Easter? The Catawba College Blue Masque would like to invite you to the first annual Easter Egg Extravaganza beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday March 19, 2008 on the lawn in front of Hedrick Little Theatre.

Six new members were present at the Feb. 22nd semi-annual meeting of the Catawba College Business Advisory Board for the Ralph W. Ketner School of Business.

Thursday, March 13th, marked the sixth year that Catawba College served as a qualifying site for the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics state contests.

The Omwake-Dearborn Chapel at Catawba College was the site for a 2 p.m. service on Thursday, March 13 for two fallen Salisbury firefighters, Victor A. Isler and Justin Edward Monroe. The two lost their lives in a March 7 structure fire.

from www.news14.com. Catawba College political science professor Michael Bitzer said writing off North Carolina would be dangerous, considering the state’s history of Democratic governors, several undecided super delegates, and an expected strong voter turnout.

Catawba College senior Hayley Stafford of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who is majoring in Environmental Science, received a Grant-in-Aid of Research award from the national honors society, Sigma-Xi, for her proposal, "Effects of increased levels of carbon dioxide on calcification in cnidarians."

Catawba College Alumnus Harper Holland '78, wife Michele, and their 10-year-old son, Christopher of Lake Mary, Fla., have established a new scholarship at the college in honor of Holland's parents. Preference for the Clyde and Daphne Holland Endowed Scholarship will be given to students from Sampson County High School and preferably from Lakewood High School.

This year's Hall of Fame Weekend is set for April 25th and 26th, 2008. Golf is Friday, April 25th at the Country Club of Salisbury at 1:00pm and the induction ceremony is Saturday, April 26th at noon in the Kirkland Lobby of Goodman Gymnasium. This year's inductees are Ginger Hamric, Herman Helms '48(d), Charlie Little '64, Joseph Popp '52, Tracey Scruggs '90, and Ralph Wager.

The Home Concert of the Catawba Singers will be held at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 16 in Omwake-Dearborn Chapel at Catawba College. This concert follows the Singers spring concert tour which took them to performance venues throughout the Southeast. A wide variety of repertoire will be performed...

Robert Casmus, head athletic trainer at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, has been recognized for the second time in his career as the North Carolina Athletic Trainers' Association College/University Athletic Trainer of the Year. He received the award March 8 during the association's annual meeting in Wilmington.

Members of the faculty and several students of the Catawba College Psychology Department attended the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association in March. Student Kathryn Shanklin of Cypress, Texas presented her work titled "Facebook: An Addiction?" during the Undergraduate Poster Session.

Several faculty members in Catawba College's Theatre Arts Department have received awards and have been recognized for publications. These recent outstanding achievements by Dr. Woodrow Hood, Christopher Zink, and David Pulliam include...

Dr. J. Michael Bitzer, an assistant professor of political science and dean of admissions at Catawba College, was recently featured on News 14 Carolina. Bitzer commented specifically on the huge impact that North Carolina will have and how it will play a pivotal role in the results of the presidential race.

By Justin Vick, independenttribune.com. CONCORD - There was no mistaking who Jessica Jacobs was when she walked into the Northwest Cabarrus Middle School cafeteria Wednesday. The Miss North Carolina crown gave her away. "The crown is a little conspicuous, isn’t it?" the High Point native said in response to the warm ovation from students.

The Catawba College Mathematics Department will host the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) State Dinner from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2008 in the Center for the Environment on campus. Dr. Sol Garfunkel will be the guest speaker for the event and will speak about "Math is Everywhere, Math is More, and the Fafuffnik-Chaim Yankel Effect."

This year's freshman "common reading" at Catawba College is Mountains Beyond Mountains by journalist Tracy Kidder. Kidder subtitled his book "The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world." In it, Kidder tells the extraordinary story of Farmer's creation of Partners In Health, an organization dedicated to providing modern health care to the impoverished masses of the entire world.

The Ralph W. Ketner School of Business will hold its inaugural Distinguished CEO Lecture Series, featuring Bob Ingram, Vice President Pharmaceuticals at GlaxoSmithKline, on Tuesday, April 1 at 4 p.m. in Peeler Crystal Lounge in the Robertson College-Community Center on the Catawba College campus. Musical entertainment will begin at 3:45 and a reception will follow at 5 p.m.