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'Pie Your Professor' whips up cash to cream cancer

Alpha Phi Omega's annual College Coffee fundraiser for the American Cancer Society gives students stress relief with the approach of final exams.

Elon names 2013 Lumen Scholars

The university's top award comes with $15,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.

Victoria Moore received N.C. Biotechnology Center Grant

Winter 2013: "I Am Elon" with Alex Helman '13
Alex Helman calls the third floor of McMichael home for most of her waking hours. See why in this installment of "I Am Elon."
Chemistry students honored for research presentations
Rachel Wilson, Kelsey Van Dalfsen and Cecilia Smith were recognized at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemistry Society.
MCAT Prep Class
Members of Chemistry Department Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
The Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation recently awarded a grant of $38,685 to Victoria D. Moore, Karl D. Sienerth and Kathryn M. Matera.
SURE scholars share fruits of summer research
The Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences program offers top students stipends to work closely for eight weeks with Elon faculty.
SURF 2012 celebrates student & faculty research
Elon’s annual Spring Undergraduate Research Forum highlights some of the best recent scholarship by university students and professors.
Elon juniors honored by Goldwater program
Kelsey Van Dalfsen has been named a 2012 Goldwater Scholarship recipient while Julie Ronecker received an Honorable Mention.
President Emeritus Earl Danieley '46 honored by American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society has honored Elon President Emeritus J. Earl Danieley '46 this fall with a certificate recognizing 60 years of service.
National Science Foundation awards Elon $1.2 million to train science & math teachers
A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will bolster the number of math and science teachers Elon University graduates in the years ahead through a partnership with the Alamance-Burlington School System.
Amanda Leigh Clark '11 receives Phi Kappa Phi fellowship
Amanda Leigh Clark '11, a biochemistry major and Lumen Scholar from Skaneateles, N.Y., has received a $5,000 fellowship award from the Phi Kappa Phi national academic honor society to help fund her graduate studies at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Lumen Scholar seeks new treatment to heart disease
Heart attacks and other cardiovascular conditions kill thousands of Americans every day, and as a high school student, that statistic turned personal for Elon University senior Amanda Clark. The biochemistry major focused her undergraduate research while at the university on identifying some ways that heart disease develops, which could in turn lead to better treatments, and her work is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.
Lumen Scholar studies molecules & potential Alzheimer’s treatment
More than 5.3 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia that impairs memory and behavior. Elon University senior Caroline Peckels is analyzing compounds found in walnuts that may one day lead to new treatment for patients with the degenerative condition, and her work is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.
Elon professor Joel Karty awarded NSF research grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded Elon University chemistry professor Joel Karty a three-year, $181,000 research grant to work with undergraduates assisting him in his ongoing study of two types of molecular phenomena that govern chemical stability.
Students present at American Chemical Society Meeting
Four students from the chemistry department presented their research last weekend at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) in New Orleans.
Laura Roselle, Joel Karty awarded Senior Faculty Research Fellowships
Elon University professors Laura Roselle and Joel Karty have been selected as Senior Faculty Research Fellows for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.
Elon senior receives national chemistry research award
Elon University senior Anthony Rizzuto has been named the recipient of a 2010 Eastern Analytical Symposium Student Research Award, a highly competitive national prize in the chemistry field given each year to six undergraduate researchers.
Elon professor Gene Grimley takes reins of national honor society
Since coming to Elon in 1987, professor Eugene “Gene” Grimley has focused much of his energy on helping to build a strong chemistry program. He’s now turning his attention to an even bigger stage as the new president of Phi Lambda Upsilon, the national chemistry honor society with tens of thousands of active members across the United States.
Civitan International of North Carolina honors Earl Danieley as "Citizen of the Year"
Civitan International of North Carolina this summer honored J. Earl Danieley, Elon University's president emeritus and a professor of chemistry, with its Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award.
Earl Danieley recognized by United Church of Chapel Hill
The United Church of Chapel Hill is celebrating its centennial anniversary, and on May 23, 2010, the church unveiled a bronze plaque listing all of its former pastors, including Elon University president emeritus J. Earl Danieley.
Elon junior recognized by Goldwater scholarship program
For the second consecutive year, Elon University junior Amanda Leigh Clark has been recognized with an honorable mention in the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program, which awards scholarships to students planning for careers in science, math or engineering.
President Emeritus J. Earl Danieley '46 takes center stage for 'fireside chat'
Elon’s 2010 Founders Day celebrations concluded Thursday, March 11, with a “fireside chat” with President Emeritus J. Earl Danieley ’46. Members of the audience were treated to tales about Danieley’s life and his many experiences at Elon as student, faculty member, administrator and president.
Kathy Matera named to A.L. Hook science and mathematics professorship
Kathryn Mansfield Matera, associate professor of chemistry, has been selected as the third recipient of the A.L. Hook Emerging Scholar Professorship in Science and Mathematics at Elon University. The professorship provides funding and opportunities for faculty to mentor students and involve undergraduates in research and special projects.
Elon sophomore recognized by scholarship program
Elon sophomore Amanda Leigh Clark was recognized this week with an honorable mention in the 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program, which awards scholarships to students planning for careers in science, math and engineering.
Lisa Ponton co-authors Innovative Chemistry Exam
 Lisa Ponton, assistant professor of chemistry, worked for three years with colleagues from a range of institutions across the nation in developing an unprecedented type of standardized exam for chemistry, the Diagonistic of Undergraduate Chemical Knowledge, or DUCK, exam.
Inaugural Neuroscience Workshop held on campus
The first ever Neuroscience Workshop at Elon University was held Oct. 24, 2008, in the Moseley Center, where dozens of students and faculty took part in five presentations on a subject of growing interest in higher education.
Elon alum accepted into premier research program
Geoffrey Lynn, a chemistry major who graduated in 2007, has been accepted into the National Institutes of Health Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program, a doctoral training program for outstanding science students committed to biomedical research.
Times-News spotlights Matera's research
Alzheimer's focus of work by Elon professor
Researchers led by an Elon University associate professor have identified in walnuts at least two molecules that may hold the key to better treating, if not completely reversing, the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, a fatal type of dementia that diminishes memory and affects behavior in older adults.
Black serves summer internship with GlaxoSmithKline
Elon Chemistry Club Receives Award
President Emeritus Danieley featured in News & Observer
The Raleigh News & Observer ran a feature story on President Emeritus J. Earl Danieley in the May 20 edition. Read this note for details and a link to the story...
Karty receives chemistry research grant
Caruso to attend international research conference in Turkey
Senior Mary Caruso, a chemistry major, won the top prize in a recent undergraduate research conference and will attend the INSPIRE International Conference in June in Istanbul, Turkey. Details...
Geoffrey Lynn receives first place science prize, two earn second place honors
Elon junior Geoffrey Lynn, right, won a first place prize for his presentation at the 2005 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference Nov. 4-5 in Seattle. Two other students also won awards for their presentations. Details...
Karty co-authors Journal of Physical Chemistry A articles
Karty publishes book, journal articles