News & Record features Elon Project Pericles work in Africa

The Greensboro News & Record carried a two-part series written by junior Alyse Knorr on Elon's continuing work fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa. The series ran June 24-25. Read this note for links to her stories...

The June 24 story was titled “Under the African Sky: Project Pericles Places Elon Students in the Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS.”

Read the story at:
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070624/NEWSREC0104/706240319/-1/NEWSRECRSSARKIVE

A sidebar on Project Pericles is at:
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070624/NEWSREC0104/706240304/-1/NEWSRECRSSARKIVE

A multimedia presentation featuring Knorr’s photos is on the News & Record home page at:
http://www.news-record.com/

The June 25 story was titled “HIV and Hope: AIDS Activist Anita Isaacs Empowers HIV-Positive Women by Sharing Her Story With the World.”

Read the story at:
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070625/NEWSREC0104/70625013

Knorr traveled to Africa this summer in a group led by Tom Arcaro, professor of sociology and director of Project Pericles at Elon. He has led several groups to Namibia in recent years, including the first class of Periclean Scholars, who chose to concentrate their work on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and produced a documentary series called “Maturisa Ehinga: We Are Fighting AIDS.”

Knorr and fellow Elon students Erin Barnett and Conor Britain are producing a new documentary based on this year’s trip, and Knorr also approached the News & Record to ask if it would be interested in sharing her work with its readers. This series grew out of that discussion with the newspaper.