Archive for September 27, 2010

Entrepreneurship students participated Sept. 23 in The Indus Entrepreneurs of Carolina’s (TiE) networking event at the Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. The students networked with approximately 80 high growth and technology entrepreneurs as part of their Entrepreneurship Skills course taught by Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Sirena Hargrove-Leak, an assistant professor of engineering, along with Dustin “Dusty” French ’11, and Paul Schifano ’10, published “Li-Al layered double hydroxides as catalysts for the synthesis of flavanone” in Catalysis Communications.

Funeral services for first-year student Michelle Pfleger, who died suddenly on Sept. 24, will be at 11 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 30 at the Cochran Funeral Home in Hackettstown, NJ, with the burial to follow at the Pequest Union Cemetery, in Great Meadows, N.J. Read this note for details.

Read this note for a message from Elon University President Leo M. Lambert about the death of Elon student Michelle Pfleger on Sept. 24.

During this year’s Senior Class Giving Campaign, members of the Class of 2011 will be encouraged to make a gift to the university to show their support for their Elon experiences.

Elon Hillel sponsored a food drive on campus during the ten-day period between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Students, faculty, and staff donated 137 pounds of food, all of which was donated to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.