Several Green Pig Initiatives will be happening on campus to heighten awareness of the fact that there is a statewide ban on the acceptance of plastic bottles at landfills. As of October 1, plastic bottles, oil filters and wooden pallets are a no-go at N.C. landfills. These items will have to be recycled and cannot be included in regular household or bagged garbage.

Thanks to a $48,804 grant that Catawba College received from the N.C. Biotechnology Research, science students now have access to a new Epifluorescence Microscope. The new microscope was installed in the Shuford Science Building on campus in late August, replacing one that was almost 20 years old.

A Catawba College student has received a $1,000 research stipend from the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) to perform research. Only five research stipends were awarded throughout the state by the NCICU.

"I wasn't sure how many people would show up for "Take Your Parents to Class" on Friday [September 25th]," says Cyndi Allison Wittum, a Catawba College Communication Arts Instructor. "It's hard to compete with football games and ice cream socials when you're offering a class lecture."

Faculty and staff in Catawba College Music Department are still celebrating a new Yamaha keyboard laboratory recently installed by department members in Hoke Hall on campus. The lab, which includes a teacher station, audio hardware, lab peripherals and software, plus 16 student stations, will further integrate technology into the music curriculum offered to Catawba students.

Four members of the Catawba College Theatre Arts Department were winners in the Metrolina Theatre Association's annual awards, presented in Charlotte on Sunday, September 20. Winners included...

The Catawba College Department of Mathematics installed a new chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon, a national undergraduate honor society for the advancement of mathematics, during a ceremony held in Tom Smith Auditorium on campus Thursday, Sept. 17.

When Dr. Stephen Etters joined the Catawba College Music Department back in 2000, his initial efforts to create a pep band on campus were short-lived. However, thanks to growth in the Music Department and some enthusiastic students, Catawba's Pep Band is back!

What would you want to ask Salisbury City Council candidates in a public forum? The Post is gathering questions for a forum involving Salisbury City Council candidates scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in Hedrick Little Theatre. The Rowan County Chamber of Commerce, Catawba College and the Post are sponsoring the forum.

The Catawba Singers will perform in a concert for the N.C. State Convention of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18th. The concert will be offered in the Recital Hall at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In Catawba College's production of "The Women," whether men are in attendance, or not, is of no consequence. In playwright Clare Boothe Luce's world of money, the action of these rich socialites centers on men… without a single man ever appearing on stage. Offered by an entirely female ensemble, each character in the play contributes to the representation of the many facets of womanhood, raging through the spectrum from compassion to cattiness.

By Roxanna Haynes, FOX8 News: HIGH ROCK LAKE, N.C. - An environmental expert believes the nearly 16 million gallons of sewage dumped into a creek that feeds into High Rock Lake could lead to a fish kill, among other effects.The city of Thomasville could face a massive fine from the federal government for the sewage leak, which occurred between July 13 and August 4.

18 golfers teed off at 7:30 on Monday, September 14th to play 100 holes at McCanless Golf Club to support Catawba Athletics. Included in the group were several Catawba coaches. All monies raised in the effort are spent on Catawba Student Athletes.

Four Catawba College theatre arts alumni recently participated in a reading of a stage adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying at Ragdale, an artist colony in Lake Forest, Illinois. Allison Barnes (2005), Jen Short (2009), Jordan Danz (2008), and Taylor Edwards (2007) all live in the Chicago area and work in theatre there.

By Hugh Fisher, www.salisburypost.com - Live a long healthy life. Keep your mind and your energy. Die with a minimum of disease and pain. If you eat right, exercise and cut down the number of toxins in your living environment, those could be the positive results, according to a Salisbury doctor who is trying to change locals' living habits. Dr. Christopher Magryta shared a mix of healthy directions and cutting-edge science at Catawba College's Center for the Environment...

No cases of the H1N1 virus have been reported on the Catawba College campus, but college administrators are wasting no time in their efforts to educate the campus population about the virus and take some preventative steps to halt its spread.

Members of the Catawba College community commemorated the anniversary of September 11, 2001 at a Campus Worship service held Tues., Sept. 8 in Omwake-Dearborn Chapel. The service was an opportunity to remember those who lost their lives on that day, the survivors and those whose lives were irrevocably impacted on that day.

Catawba College's American Chemistry Society Student Affiliates Chapter has received a Commendable Chapter Award for its 2008-2009 activities. The Chapter Advisor, Dr. Mark Sabo, professor of chemistry at the college, received notification of the award Sept. 8th.

Loose change collected at the entrances of Catawba College's home athletic events will benefit several charities, including Rowan Helping Ministries, the American Red Cross and Make-A-Wish Foundation. Student athletes, representing Catawba's 18 athletic teams, will be responsible for the collection in an effort led by Catawba's Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

Rowan County Chief Deputy Kevin Auten jokes about how long he was an undergraduate at Catawba College before earning his bachelor's degree in 2000. He'll tell you about his false starts, that college is a balance of grades, maturing and experience, and how all it takes is for you to apply yourself, but it took Kevin Auten a total of 21 years to get it exactly right for himself.

The Immortal Lovers: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Dr. W. Craig Turner, the current president of Catawba College, developed his love of English literature as an undergraduate at Baylor University. After completing a B.A. in English and History at Baylor, he remained in Waco long enough to earn an M.A. in English before moving on to finish his Ph.D. in British and American Literature at Tulane University.

Redesigned Open House format allows students and parents to really "drink in" Catawba's culture. Catawba College Office of Admissions invites local high school students to indulge all their senses by attending Catawba's redesigned Open House, "Cheerwine Day," on Saturday, September 26th at the College. "Cheerwine Day," on September 26th will be the first of two Open Houses at Catawba College for 2009...

A BIG congratulations to all of the Catawba College Theatre Arts Directors, Designers, and Actors listed below for their 2008-09 nominations by the Metrolina Theatre Association! The Awards Ceremony is scheduled in Charlotte on September 20. Visit Metrolinatheatre.org for more information.

Source: www.SalisburyPost.com - Sherri Hill was crowned Miss Spencer-Rowan 2009 at a pageant held Friday during the annual Spencer Jaycees Street Dance in downtown Spencer. Hill, 24, is a native of East Spencer and daughter of Althea Hill and the late Howard Solomon

The Music Department of Catawba College will be presenting multiple woodwind performer and adjunct professor Jack Murray accompanied by Anna Brock in a recital on Thursday night September 3rd at 7:00 P.M. at Catawba College's Omwake-Dearborn Chapel.