Articles by Eric Townsend
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‘Don’t Trash It!’ donation campaign runs May 13-27
May 6, 2015
Wondering what to do with that perfectly good item you don’t want to pack? Donation Stations are set up throughout campus May 13-27 to collect donations which go to local charities and assist those in need in Alamance County.
Ward Family Learning in Action Award to support residential home in Ethiopia
May 6, 2015
Elon sophomore Josephine Gardner will use the 2015 award to assist Ethiopian women and children by creating a "safe home" in the nation's capital.
'Garden Studio' class hosts strawberry festival & plant sale – May 8
May 5, 2015
The final Friday of classes this spring gives members of the campus community time to enjoy strawberry treats in the Elon Community Garden with an opportunity to win raffle prizes such as garden benches and basil pots.
Elon senior & alumnus receive Princeton in Asia fellowships
May 5, 2015
Laura Sturdivant '15 and Alexander Ward '14 travel next fall to Myanmar and the Philippines, respectively, with support of a program aimed at promoting goodwill and the exchange of ideas between cultures of the East and West.
5K fundraiser kicks off arts & science festival
May 2, 2015
Elon University's second annual celebration of the arts & sciences brought hundreds of people to campus Saturday for hands-on educational activities and the inaugural "5K Run/Walk for H.O.P.E." to benefit a student-run charity that fights hunger in Alamance County.
Elon senior's nonprofit earns her $15,000 award
May 2, 2015
Yasmine Arrington, a strategic communications and history double major from Washington, D.C., received a Samuel Huntington Public Service Award this spring to grow a nonprofit she founded to help the children of incarcerated parents pay for college.
Elon dedicates new 'front door' to campus
May 1, 2015
The community celebrated Friday the alumni, parents and friends whose generosity made possible the Inman Admissions Welcome Center, which will greet generations of prospective Elon University students and their families.
In My Words: Don't halt progress of sex education in North Carolina
May 1, 2015
Professor Rebecca Todd Peters in the Department of Religious Studies writes for regional newspapers about efforts to amend a North Carolina law that defines sex education and why changes might do more harm than good.