Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, encouraged students to be bold during Elon’s Baccalaureate sermon in Alumni Gym.

Resources are available through May 22 to assist students with donating or recycling furniture and other items they can't take home with them.

An annual program in Whitley Auditorium on April 26 honored students for their academic performances and leadership traits.

THE LAST SURVIVOR will be screened on Wednesday, April 18, 7:00pm, in McEwen 011.

Marlene Appley, whose Jewish family survived Hitler’s invasion of their home village in the Ore Mountains of Czechoslovakia , will share her life story as part of Elon’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Week programs. Ms. Appley will speak on Tuesday, April 17, at 5:30pm in KOBC 346.

The assistant professor of religious studies was formally introduced April 3 during the 2012 Convocation for Honors ceremony.

Professors and an Elon Law student on March 28 share with their audience perspectives on deadly shootings in Florida, France and Afghanistan.

The Jewish holiday of Passover begins on Friday evening, April 6. Elon Hillel is hosting a Passover Seder that evening, from 6:00-7:30pm in Oaks 212.

Malcolm Astley and Mary Dunne visited campus this week to raise awareness of relationship violence, which claimed the life of their daughter Lauren.

Two days removed from Spring Break, Elon students welcomed in the season by taking part in a celebration dear to their Hindu classmates.

A March 13 dance/lecture in the Black Box Theatre was part of the "Religious Studies at the Crossroads" series at Elon.

There will be a Holi Celebration on Tuesday, March 27 at 4 p.m. at the Speaker's Corner near the front of Moseley.

With a scheduled completion date of January 2013, the Numen Lumen Pavilion will mark the final addition to Elon University's Academic Village.

Fifty people from the university and surrounding communities reflected Sunday on Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and the lessons he taught.

Join us in LaRose Digital Theater, Koury Business Center 101 at 7:30pm to listen to Carl Wilkens speak on this topic.

Look for your Elon friends and colleagues in these Holiday greetings shared at Elon's annual Festival of Light.

New to campus this year are more than 30,000 LED bulbs that will cut holiday light energy use by more than 90 percent over previous years.

An Oct. 21 ceremony in the Academic Village comes weeks before construction begins on the future Numen Lumen Pavilion.

Elon Hillel marks a milestone in the growth of a vibrant Jewish life on campus with services and events tied to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The Fall 2011 edition of Reform Judaism features Elon among schools that have "gone the extra mile" to be attractive to Jewish students.

Students, faculty, staff, their families and community members are invited to join Elon Hillel to celebrate and observe the Jewish holiday of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on Wednesday evening, September 28, and is observed for one or two days, depending on family tradition.

A solemn flag-lowering ceremony marked the beginning of Elon’s Sept. 11 observances.

The weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2, the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual life will be hosting its annual Fall Retreat.

Elon University chaplain emeritus Richard McBride, Elon trustee Dr. William N.P Herbert ’68 and retired vice president Nan Perkins received Elon Medallions on Aug. 22, 2011, in an annual ceremony that celebrates the highest honor the university bestows on individuals for their meritorious service to the institution.

In an effort to welcome new students to campus and through the support of an anonymous gift to the university, Elon Hillel this summer launched a pilot project where a trio of student interns reached out to dozens of incoming freshmen with the goal of engaging them in the growing Jewish life on campus.

President Leo M. Lambert was part of a panel discussion on Aug. 3 at the White House kickoff of President Barack Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. About 200 colleges and universities across the nation were selected for the initiative, which seeks to foster interfaith cooperation and understanding through service.

Two trees that towered over Elon University for decades were felled Wednesday morning, and the dried wood from both will be featured in the future Numen-Lumen Pavilion, which will house a multi-faith center planned for the very site in the Academic Village where the giant oaks once stood.

The Rev. Dr. Janet F. Fuller, who has dedicated her professional career to higher education ministry, most recently as chaplain for Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., has been selected to serve as the next chaplain at Elon University.

What does the future hold for the United States now that Osama bin Laden is dead? And why did Americans feel the need to celebrate someone’s death? A panel of faculty and students addressed those questions and more on May 9 in a community discussion sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life.

As you clean out your dorm room or apartment this month, instead of tossing furniture and clothing that you couldn't sell on E-net into the nearest trash bin, consider a donation to area charities that are working in coordination with the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the Office of Sustainability to help others in the community while minimizing the amount of waste dumped into local landfills.

Students and staff from Elon University gathered May 1 in Graham, N.C., for the dedication of the 20th Habitat for Humanity home built by Elon volunteers since the international nonprofit program first established a chapter at the university in 1989.

Though most news coverage of the Catholic Church focuses on its scandals, the positive impacts of the world’s largest organization can often be understated, which Elon University senior Stephen Ferguson argues based on his research into the emerging public perception of the institution. His work is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on undergraduate research to be presented during CELEBRATE! 2011.

Dozens of Elon University students are taking part in Alternative Break service trips this month to destinations across the United States, the Caribbean and in France. The programs were organized by the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement, the Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life, and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

The Elon campus community is planning efforts to provide support from those suffering the effects of a massive earthquake and tsunami. The efforts were launched at the March 15 College Coffee, where students from Japan spoke about the disaster in their homeland.