Archive for February 19, 2020

President Connie Ledoux Book on how Elon’s investment in faculty, curriculum and facilities to advance student learning and engagement in the STEM fields 20 years ago has set the stage for the Innovation Quad.

The Business and Culture in the European Union course offered first-year Business Fellows the opportunity to visit organizations such as FactSet, Campari Group and the Borsa Italiana.

In recognition of National Girls & Women in Sports Day, the School of Communications and the Women Influencers in Sport (WINS) initiative hosted a daylong event featuring an on-campus panel discussion, networking reception and classroom visits with female professionals in the sport industry.

Very few people ever have the opportunity to win big money on a talk show hosted by one of the most beloved pop culture icons of the past quarter-century. Lauren Hossfeld L’Dec.’17 is in that elite group.

The annual concert will feature Andy Page on guitar, Phillip Whack on saxophone and the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday in McCrary Theatre in the Center for the Arts.

Upcoming Center for Writing Excellence Boot Camps

The workshop hosted by Elon's Psychology Department, Drs. Kim Epting and Erika Lopina, will share strategies they've used to promote the transfer of writing skills/knowledge across multiple classes. Participants will be given time to brainstorm similar strategies for their curriculum.

"Why It Might Be Better to Be a Generalist" was part of the panel The Art History Generalist: Challenges, Strategies and the Future of Teaching Art History

Elon's four-year engineering degree program is included in ABET's 2020-21 accreditation evaluation cycle. ABET accreditation signifies a program meets global quality standards for education in engineering, applied and natural science, computing and engineering technology. The process should be completed in summer 2021.

The journalism and international & global studies double major has been named a 2020 Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow, joining top journalism students from 16 universities across the country to examine youth violence and the juvenile justice system in America.