The OGB reveals the editorial staff’s top 10 stories of the year.

The graduates of the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy have achieved the highest national passing rates on the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam for the fourth year in a row.
The CPA exam is a computer-based assessment required to achieve accountancy certification in all of the 55 United States jurisdictions, including Guam and Puerto Rico. The CPA exam consists of four sections: Auditing and Attestation, Business Environment and Concepts, Financial Accounting and Reporting, and Regulation.

On April 27 and 28, a broadly interdisciplinary public and scholarly audience gathered in Annenberg Forum of Carswell Hall to attend a conference titled “Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility.” Presented by the Department of Communication and the Program in Bioethics, Health and Society with the goal of promoting accessible, lively and meaningful discussion about bioethics issues of public interest, the conference was designed to be the first step in facilitating ongoing public discourse on a broad range of controversial issues including stem cell research and end of life decisions.

The religion department sponsored a set of lectures on the Lakota creation story by Harry Charger, a prominent Sun Dance Leader and Wisdom Keeper from the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Charger presented his account of the Lakota creation story on April 27, 28 and 29 in the Balcony Room of Wait Chapel.

Fifty-seven Old Town Elementary School students descended upon the Magnolia Quad Tuesday, April 28 for the fifth annual D.E.S.K. event. D.E.S.K., which stands for Discovering Education through Student Knowledge, is a program started by two university students in 2004 to provide elementary school students who did not have adequate work space at home with restored desks painted by university student volunteers.

University students enrolled in the Spanish for Medical Professions (Spanish 385) course presented their final products, which spanned weeks of conglomeratic student and faculty research focusing on healthcare related challenges posed to the North Carolina Latino community on April 27 in Greene Hall.

Last fall when Joe Biden was here during the presidential campaign, he indicated that he would like to return to the university, and returning he is. The university has announced the commencement speaker for the graduation ceremony of 2009: Vice President Joe Biden.