Eric Townsend

Harvard graduate Chris Nowinski made a name for himself in professional wresting, but when a head injury ended his career, he wrote a book and started a nonprofit with the mission of solving the sports concussion crisis.

The chair of the Department of Psychology will assume her new role at the university starting in January 2014.

Kirstin Ringelberg, Kathy Matera and David Crowe in Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, last month received Faculty Excellence Awards for the 2012-2013 academic year.

New students affirmed their commitment on Thursday morning to the virtues of honesty, integrity, responsibility and respect in the university’s eighth annual Call to Honor program.

President Leo M. Lambert joined with faculty and Residence Life staff on Tuesday evening to set the tone and hopes for student life in the university’s newest residential complex.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Junot Díaz shared with an Elon University audience on Tuesday his approach to writing, his concerns about the way minorities are marginalized in the United States - and how he thinks American youth can change the world.

Associate Professor Naeemah Clark writes in a newspaper guest column about the lack of minority female role models on television who can be a positive influence for all girls of color.

Elon University students, faculty and staff visited the center on the first floor of Belk Library to learn more about support and services available to the campus community.

The 5:30 p.m. program on Wednesday is sponsored by four academic programs: Peace and Conflict Studies, International Studies, Political Science and Policy Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.

Registration is still open to join faculty and students from around the world in Raleigh, N.C., for an October conference organized by the university's Center for Engaged Learning.