Eric Townsend

The assistant professor of human service studies spoke with the international wire service for an article that looked at the corrupt adoption process involving Guatemalan children following a decades-long Civil War - and efforts by Guatemalan adoptees today to find their birth parents.

All tickets for the Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture with syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. have been distributed. Elon staff will begin taking names for a wait list at the Center for the Arts Box Office at 6 p.m. on Thursday. You must be present to get on the list and present if your name is called for a ticket. Staff will call names in the order that they are received.

Elon University senior Alexandra Cantone authored a report on women's roles in countering violent extremism in Saudi Arabia as part of a summer internship at the Institute for Gulf Affairs, a Washington think tank to which she applied with help from faculty and the Student Professional Development Center.

Community members joined with Elon University students, faculty and staff Tuesday night for a public forum led by civic leaders and historical experts who shared ideas for improving race relations in the United States.

Dozens of people gathered on Aug. 29, 2015, in the Danieley Neighborhood to celebrate the life of Trent Stetler, a Pennsylvania native known for his infectious smile and countless friendships across campus.

In an open letter to presidential hopefuls, Professor Rosemary Haskell uses literature and knowledge of her native Great Britain to make the case for American policymakers treating firearms as a public health issue.

Hundreds of Elon University students took part Saturday in a service project aimed at providing hunger relief to people around the globe.

Elon University students and staff have organized dozens of service trips to the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina, and as the nation marks the storm's 10th anniversary this summer, campus leaders and alumni reflect on how they, too, were shaped by its destruction.

Assistant Professor Carmen Mónico travels to the Central American nation next spring to assess a vocational training program aimed at creating work opportunities for youth who might instead emigrate elsewhere.

The Liberal Arts Forum brings to campus this semester internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Edward Burtynsky, whose work is described as "visually stunning and truly global in the spatial, conceptual and political sense of that word."