Archive for 2020

Faculty/Staff Health & Wellness Physician Assistant Heather Ratcliffe has returned to campus after spending 42 days treating COVID-19 patients in New York.

Assistant Professor Tiffany D. Atkins L’11 will help amplify the voices of underrepresented groups as the first Leadership Experience and Advancement Pipeline (LEAP) Board Member on the LWI Board of Directors.

Longtime Elon supporters Bob and Barbara Byrd are including Elon in their estate plans to support the Department of Music, Elon Academy and the “It Takes a Village” Project.

In the column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of Law Enrique Armijo argues that President Trump's recent Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship would do more to limit free speech than to protect it.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate. Rochelle Ford, dean of Elon's School of Communications, writes about the role that journalism plays in educating the public about the impact of racism upon society and the need to support journalism going forward.

The 2019 book by Eberhardt, a Stanford University professor and MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant recipient, takes on additional meaning this year amid widespread protests against racism and oppression.

Elon University has announced the “Ready & Resilient” plan to guide resumption of on-campus classes and operations for the upcoming academic year.

Researchers from the two universities have made advances in the field of soft robotics by bending artificial cilia into new shapes using a magnetic field, then returning the cilia to their original shape by exposing them to light.

Professor Steve Friedland, recognized as one of the nation’s best law school professors, used neuroscience and educational theory in a presentation to the 2020 CALIcon conference in which he offers best practices for helping students overcome fatigue and distractions that occur in virtual learning.

The EMT worked in Atlanta running 9-1-1 calls since January of this year, but heeded the call to leave her home to go to the Big Apple and work through FEMA to help where she was needed most.