Eric Townsend

Crowds visited the Elon Community Garden behind the Sklut Hillel Center on Oct. 25 as an environmental studies course and Elon Hillel celebrated the season with food, face painting, photos and gobs of gourds.

The assistant professor of political science spoke with North Carolina's statewide cable news channel about visible disagreements among members of the Republican Party.

A childhood literacy initiative at Elon University will add a summer reading camp to its list of programs for boys and girls in the local community who encounter trouble learning to read.

A popular musical based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow runs on stage in McCrary Theatre for six nights this fall. Tickets are $12 each or free with Elon ID.

Sponsored by the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement, two groups helped with community development and environmental preservation in western North Carolina during their Alternative Break Service Trips.

A Friday evening performance in by the Dutch singer/songwriter in Whitley Auditorium is free and open to the public.

The Inman Admissions Welcome Center will be the crown jewel of a campus visit experience for generations of Elon University students and their families.

The recent kidnappings of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers in Syria are the backdrop to a newspaper column from Professor Tom Arcaro on the responsibilities people have to assist aid workers.

A program at Elon's Numen Lumen Pavilion will bring together scholars to discuss the history and future of the relationship between the world’s Jewish and Christian communities.

The dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, begins her new role as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs effective Feb. 1, 2014.