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After recovering from a near deadly car crash, returning to college posed an even greater financial strain for Brianne Applegate ’11 and her family. The Amy Silvers Memorial Scholarship was the answer to their prayers.

Mark Dixon, founder of YERT – Your Environmental Road Trip – will share his experiences from his yearlong eco-expedition through all 50 United States as the keynote speaker for ������ý����’s Earth Day 2011 celebration.

As the captain of the ������ý���� tennis team, Amanda Matticks loves having the opportunity to serve, but the senior also often finds herself netting “service points” away from the varsity tennis court. For the past three years, Matticks has hosted a tennis clinic for a group of approximately 30 children from the National Junior Tennis and Learning of Trenton.

Brendan T. Byrne says that the office of the governor of New Jersey is the most powerful such executive office in the United States, and that’s a good thing as long as the governor wants to be an agent for change. “Otherwise, why run for office?” asked Byrne, who visited ������ý���� for a witty and insightful Q&A session on April 14 as part of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics’ Governing New Jersey series.

The new Center for Distance Learning and Teaching, which promises an efficient and coordinated streamlining of ������ý����’s online educational efforts for both faculty and students, will offer an Open House on April 19 in the Bristol Myers Squibb Center.

������ý����’s Westminster College of the Arts will host ������ý���� Presents, a musical theater performance workshop for New Jersey high school students, on Tuesday, April 26.