As part of Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to education, the company is introducing a promotion inviting students who are actively enrolled at educational institutions and have a valid e-mail address from the institution to purchase Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 at a student price of $59.95 (U.S.). “The Ultimate Steal” promotion will run in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States starting today and in France, Italy and Spain starting Sept. 20, 2007. The promotion will end April 30, 2008.

Office Ultimate 2007 is the premium Office suite and provides students with a comprehensive set of tools that can help them create high-quality documents, gather and consolidate lecture notes and other information, stay organized, find what they are looking for quickly, and easily collaborate with colleagues and professors across geographical boundaries.

“We’re listening to students who have told us they need Microsoft Office for their studies and want more flexible ways to get the latest version,” said Alan Yates, general manager of Worldwide Education at Microsoft. “We’re committed to providing accessible and affordable technology to students so they can meet their academic goals. The Ultimate Steal is the latest in a long history of providing compelling academic offers for students.”

Earlier this year, the promotion was offered to students in Australia as a pilot program, resulting in great experiences and overwhelmingly positive feedback from students. “Our students had been asking for more flexible methods to acquire Microsoft software, so we were very happy to see this Web-based promotion,” said Catherine Overton, manager, IT Contracts, Monash University. “Microsoft Office is also a key set of applications used by our students in their academic studies, so they were pleased to be able to acquire the newest version at such a low price.”

Office Ultimate 2007 includes the entire Microsoft Office toolset that students are accustomed to working with and more, including Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Office OneNote 2007, Office Groove 2007 and Microsoft Office InfoPath® 2007.

Students can find program details and see if they’re eligible at TheUltimateSteal.com

Source: Microsoft.com Press Release

Career Development Services is hosting the Career Expo Tuesday and Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

The Career Expo provides an opportunity for students and alumni of all majors to view exhibits from businesses and organizations. Participants have the chance to investigate career options, meet recruiters and begin or continue the job search. Representatives will be recruiting for internship, career and summer job opportunities.

Tuesday is for business and non-technical majors. Wednesday is for engineering and technical majors. Participants are expected to dress professionally and bring copies of their resume to distribute.

Visit www.auburn.edu/career for more information.

Source: AUDaily

Ray W. Scott Jr., founder of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) and the Whitetail Institute of North America, will visit Auburn Wednesday as part of Outdoor U, an event that will focus on all things outdoors, including careers.

Outdoor U will be held on the lawn just east of Jordan-Hare Stadium from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will feature games, exhibits, product displays and information about the great outdoors. Admission is free and open to anyone on campus or in the community.

Scott will speak at 10 a.m. at Ham Wilson Livestock Arena to high school students who will be on campus to attend a career day and to visit Outdoor U. Then, from 11 a.m. to noon, he will be at the Outdoor U site to meet and greet Auburn students, faculty and staff.

Auburn was selected as an Outdoor U site after Outdoor Life magazine picked AU as one of the top 10 schools to attend for outdoor-related degrees.

Source: AUDaily

Auburn University’s fall semester enrollment hit a record high, and the university’s freshman class boasts the highest average ACT score of any class at AU, according to numbers released by AU’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment.

AU enrollment stands at 24,137 students with all student groups - undergraduates, first-professional and graduates - seeing an increase in enrollment numbers.

Read more @ AU’s Wire Eagle

UPC publicly announced Tuesday morning that Live and Collective Soul are coming to Auburn’s campus Sept. 18 for UPC’s annual fall concert. Emerson Hart will be the opening band.

“We couldn’t legally announce the concert artists until the contracts were finalized in case something were to go wrong with the negotiations,” UPC President Virginia Dawson said. “As of last Friday, the contracts were signed by the University, but we were still awaiting signatures from the artists. Now that the contracts have been returned to us and finalized, we are free to reveal who the artists are.”

The concert will be held at Hutsell Track, and students will be allowed to enter the area starting at 6:30 p.m. and Emerson Hart will begin playing at 7:30 p.m.

Read more @ ThePlainsman.com

Auburn’s Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC departments will hold a 9/11 Memorial Ceremony tomorrow, Sept. 11, at 6:45 a.m. to remember those that lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. The event will be held behind Samford Hall near the flagpole. Ross Square behind Samford Hall will be blocked to all traffic and for parking on the Thach Avenue portion of the square from 6 a.m. until the completion of the ceremony at approximately 7:30 a.m. The public is invited to attend. For more information, call 844-5647.

Auburn University’s orange and blue Tiger Transit buses are now green.

The transit fleet of more than 40 vehicles has made the switch from using regular diesel fuel to biodiesel, a cleaner burning alternative fuel produced from domestic, renewable resources. AU is the first university in the state to make the switch.

Auburn’s leadership on alternative sources of energy starts on campus,” said AU President Jay Gogue. “Tiger Transit’s switch to biodiesel illustrates our commitment to improving energy security for the United States and promoting economic growth through development and use of renewable bioenergy.”

The switch comes at a time when ridership is at an all-time high - with a one-day record the first week of classes of more than 17,000 riders - and when more than 5,000 users a day are using new visualization technology to check the internet or their cell phones to see exactly when their bus will arrive.

Read more @ AU’s Wire Eagle

AUBURN - Mike Jernigan, author of “Auburn Man: the Life and Times of George Petrie,” will discuss the legendary Auburn professor and founder of Auburn’s football team on Thursday, Aug. 23, at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives Department of Auburn University’s Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

The talk kicks off a year-long Discover Auburn series, which features programs on AU research, history and other topics of interest. The series is co-sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Auburn University Bookstore.

Read more @ AU’s Wire Eagle