SALISBURY, North Carolina, Oct. 20 -- Catawba College issued the following news on Oct. 19, 2023: Five Catawba College graduates will receive the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards. Each year, Catawba's Alumni Association recognizes alumni for their achievements, community service, and other contributions to society, and presents them with awards during Homecoming Weekend. The recipients will receive their 2023 awards on Saturday, October 28th. Taylor Fender, Class of '14, Young Alumni Service,   more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 20 -- Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment issued the following news: Xavier Basurto, Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Associate Professor of Sustainability Science, is broadly interested in how people in small communities successfully organize themselves for collective action. His talk at the symposium, "Self-Governance for Sustainability in Coupled Human-Natural Systems," described his work in advancing the understanding of non-coloniali  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 20 -- The city of Durham issued the following news: Local startups and entrepreneurs looking for a way to develop and test their products and services may now apply for the 2023 Innovate Durham program. Innovate Durham, a partnership between the City and County of Durham that allows entrepreneurs to use local government as a laboratory to test products and ideas, is now taking applications for its sixth cohort through midnight on Sunday, November 19, 2023. The 16-w  more