The Month in Photos: June

Elon University is featuring a variety of photos every month to highlight the exceptional learning, work and activities of students, faculty and staff.

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June brought some heat and fun to the Elon University campus with summer camps and community events.

View some of the most impactful moments of the past month through the eyes of staff in the Office of University Communications.

Summer Academy

Elon Academy kicked off its Summer Academy with an ice cream social on June 17, 2025, welcoming the incoming Upsilon class: 25 high-achieving rising high school sophomores who are first-generation college-bound, low-income, or both, as well as students from the earlier Sigma and Tau cohorts.

A group of smiling Elon Academy students in matching maroon shirts pose energetically together on outdoor steps in front of a brick building with white columns.
Elon Academy students were welcomed to Elon’s campus for the Summer Academy, starting with an ice cream social.

Exploring Elon

Elon University welcomed 26 new “explorers” from June 16 to 20 for the Elon Explorers Bug Camp, a STEM-focused day camp for middle school students in Alamance County.

A boy leans over a microscope, closely examining a sample outdoors.
Alamance Burlington School System middle school students participated in the Elon Explorers Bug Camp from June 16-20, 2025.

Global under the stars

A building across a pond at night
A nighttime view of Global Commons at Elon University.

Scholar Symposium

The Freedom Scholars Symposium on June 27 in Moseley Center offered an opportunity for the Freedom Scholars to celebrate their hard work and present their civic engagement projects. The Elon Freedom Scholars is one of several university college access programs, launched in 2022. The program partners with The Teagle Foundation’s “Knowledge for Freedom” initiative and supports local high school students from underserved populations to be difference makers in their communities.

A speaker in a light blue blazer addresses an audience from a podium beside an “Elon Freedom Scholars” banner in a formal event setting.
Hilton Kelly, dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences speaks at the Freedom Scholars Symposium on June 27, 2025.