Archive for February 15, 2010

Elon University produced fewer greenhouse gas emissions between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009, compared to the previous fiscal year. The emissions reduction is the primary finding released this month in the second annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory.

A new BioBus route made its debut Tuesday afternoon as a group of faculty, staff and students traveled through Burlington as part of the Downtown/East Burlington Express Loop. The route will help will lead to a reduction in the university’s carbon footprint and assist academic service-learning and federal work study students who need transportation away from campus.

RecycleMania returns to Elon this spring for the university’s fourth year taking part in a national recycling competition involving hundreds of college and universities. Leaders hope to surpass the 73,638 pounds of recyclable materials collected last spring on campus during the contest.

Christy Benson, an assistant professor of business law and ethics, and Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship, presented Feb. 9 at the 2010 Civic Engagement Institute hosted by North Carolina Campus Compact.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and director of the African/African-American Studies Program at Elon, has had her article "Reincarnating Legba: Caribbean Writers at the Crossroads" published in the new book Postcolonial Ghosts.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, was a judge Jan. 29 for the Executive Summary Round of the Global Social Venture Competition hosted by University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.

In a February 2 presentation titled, "Time to Move On -The New Normal in Legal Employment," John Lassiter, CEO and President of Carolina Legal Staffing, shared insights into the legal employment market with Elon Law students.

Elon University School of Law was represented recently at the United Kingdom's Center for Legal Education Learning in Law Annual Conference held at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, by Elon Law professors Steve Friedland and Bonnie McAlister, and by instructional technologist Christie Dickerman.