Archive for April 20, 2011

The Southern Conference regular-season champion Elon men’s tennis team nearly made it a clean sweep of the conference postseason awards, winning three of the four major awards that were presented. Cameron Silverman was named the league’s freshman of the year, while senior Alberto Rojas became the second straight Elon player to be honored with the Don Bunch/Buddy Hartsell Sportsmanship Award. Head coach Michael Leonard was recognized as the SoCon Coach of the Year for the third time in his career.

As demonstrations against the government continue in Egypt, two questions have emerged among many news viewers in the United States: Why now? And how did social media play a role in the protests? Laura Roselle and Rudy Zarzar, two professors in the Department of Political Science, offer answers to those questions in the latest in a series of videos in which Elon University faculty members share their research and classroom expertise.

Virginia high school students studying American Sign Language can now take comfort in knowing their work will be counted as a foreign language by in-state public colleges and universities – and Elon University freshman Hollis Erickson played a critical role in making that happen.