Dan Anderson

The Elon University chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has been selected as an Outstanding SPS Chapter for the 2008-09 academic year.

On Feb. 23, Elon University President Leo M. Lambert and Scott Saylor, president of the North Carolina Railroad Company, toured the construction site of a new pedestrian tunnel under the railroad tracks on campus. The underpass is expected to open in late April.

Students in the business communications class led by Betsy Stevens, associate professor of business administration, are using the new Elon BioBus route in Burlington to deliver donated food to Allied Churches of Alamance County, a facility that offers an Emergency Night Shelter, Good Shepherd Community Kitchen, and Christian Assistance Network.

At the deepest point of the 2009 financial woes, a class of Elon philosophy students turned to 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson to help understand America's response to the economic meltdown. What they found is published in new book titled "The Only Sin is Limitation: Essays on R.W. Emerson's multi-faceted influence on America."

Elon's physical plant workers will be installing enhanced lighting on campus and working with Town of Elon officials to reconfigure two crosswalks on Williamson Avenue.

President Leo M. Lambert has promoted Gerald Whittington to the position of senior vice president for business, finance and technology in recognition of his 18 years of service to Elon University.

McEwen Dining Hall will remain closed for the next several days as contractors repair plumbing problems in the building. The building was closed Thursday, Feb. 4, after it was discovered that drain lines from the dishwasher and floor drains had developed leaks in the kitchen area and underneath the building.

Elon Law will open on a two-hour delay today (Friday, Feb. 5), due to icy conditions.

John McGreevy '10, an environmental studies and biology major who was in Haiti during the devastating earthquake, recounts his experiences and efforts to assist victims in the Jan. 27 edition of The Mercury newspaper of Pottstown, Penn. McGreevy helped with emergency supplies, worked with orphans, witnessed emergency surgeries, and used his outdoor skills to become the de facto sanitation engineer in an area of Port-au-Prince. Click here to read the story…