Archive for February 8, 2019

University staff have looked back through yearbooks from throughout Elon’s history in the wake of multiple reports around the country of offensive photos portraying white students in blackface or dressed as Ku Klux Klan members.

Hillary McDonald, third-year PA student attended the 2019 Triangle Health Innovation Challenge (thinc) held Feb. 1-3. The 3-day hackathon held at the Duke School of Medicine joined teams of students from the Triangle's regional colleges and universities to solve pressing problems in healthcare.

The collaboration includes 49 member institutions that are working together as they address both historical and contemporary issues dealing with race and inequality in higher education.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Baris Kesgin’s recent research is based on the premise that when leaders depart from their long-held, publicly known policy positions, one possible explanation is changes in their personality. Kesgin puts this assumption to test in the case of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August 2005.

7 p.m. | McEwen 013