University Marketing and Communications

John Allison, the chairman of BB&T Corp., says he plans to focus on helping students develop leadership skills when he joins the business schools faculty.

Richard Boehne, the CEO of E.W. Scripps, will discuss the challenges facing newspapers in a lecture at the Babcock Graduate School of Management on Monday.

A vibrant democracy requires newspapers, writes alumnus and trustee Albert R. Hunt (’65), executive Washington editor of Bloomberg News.

Dr. Walter J. Bo, a longtime professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the School of Medicine, died on Saturday. He was 85. His funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Winston-Salem.

The women’s basketball team dropped its opening game in the WNIT to Georgetown, 72-61, at the Joel Coliseum Sunday.