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Details that the Class of 2013 established a faculty development fund as its senior class gift, and announces this year's winners

-Jessica Apolloni
-Andrew Falk
-Linda Ficht
-Lynn Lambert
-Chris Loy
-Iordanka Panayotova

Lists this year's winners of the Honors Program summer research stipend competition. Winners each receive a $1,000 stipend to support their independent research projects.

Details a new collection edited by Dr. Lori Underwood and Dr. Dawn Hutchinson, of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Ten papers were chosen from a conference at CNU on the Global Status of Women and Gender.

Announces Lindsey Pantele ('09, '10) as the Henrico County Public Schools Teacher of the Year. Pantele graduated with a degree in English before completing CNU's MAT program.

Announces Lauren Gibson ('10, '11) as the Teacher of the Year for Powhatan City Public Schools. Gibson graduated with a degree in psychology before completing the MAT program.

Announces that Dr. David Heddle, professor in the Department of Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering, has received a grant to lead a team of scientists in an investigation of the connection between gravity and subatomic particles.

Details how a group of faculty in the Department of Mathematics have redesigned MATH 125 Elementary Statistics to be taught using materials that cost students nothing.

Announces that the National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Marissa Walker, a professor in the Department of Physics, nearly $150,000 to study gravitational waves.

Announces that the Virginia Academy of Science has awarded biology professors Dr. David Collar and Dr. Jessica Thompson funding to research the effect of rising water temperatures in Virginia's estuaries on three native fish species.

Discusses the research of Trevor Cogan, an Honors Program student, American studies and history double major, and Summer Scholar. His research explores WWII, specifically the lives of North Africans and how the war affected them.