Eric Townsend

Five high school students from the Elon Academy traveled to Seattle this spring for the Society for Applied Anthropology conference where they presented a research poster on how intersections of social location such as race, class, gender and sexuality can produce barriers to and opportunities for college access.

Associate professor of geography Honglin Xiao presented his research, "Land use land cover changes under a market economy," at the 2011 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers at Seattle, Wash.

Michael Skube, an associate professor in the School of Communications, chaired the General Nonfiction jury for the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes with Robert Lee Hotz, a science writer for The Wall Street Journal, and Arnold Isaacs, a former foreign correspondent and editor of the Baltimore Sun.

Professor Anne Bolin co-chaired an presented two invited sessions at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting in San Francisco from March 29-April 2, 2011, in which an Elon alumna also presented on her work with Bolin while an undergraduate student.

Several student organizations and campus departments have partnered to host a number of events in celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2011. Organizers said their goal is to raise awareness of environmental and sustainability issues and to encourage positive action throughout the community.

Four out of five North Carolina residents support the construction of wind energy facilities in both the mountains and along the coast of the Tar Heel State, according to the latest Elon University Poll, though half the state opposes the government promoting the increased use of nuclear power to address America’s energy supply.

The Elon University Institute for Politics and Public Affairs is conducting a health and wellness community survey this month in Alamance County on topics that include: social and wellness concerns, perceived health issues in the county, exercise habits, care giving responsibilities and perceived safety in the county.

Re-imagining a nearly 2,500-year-old play, the Department of Performing Arts' production of Ajax by Sophocles explores the great warrior’s PTSD-like struggles on the battlefield of a contemporary and familiar war-torn landscape. The show runs through Sunday afternoon in McCrary Theatre.

Sometimes silly and sometimes serious, but always as "Satan,” Elon University professor Jeffrey C. Pugh read excerpts from his new book Thursday as part of the 2010-11 Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture before taking questions about the way evil is described in Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office.

Four new majors will be offered to Elon University students starting in the fall. Early childhood education is an addition to the School of Education’s programs; information science replaces the current computer information systems major in the Department of Computing Sciences; and public health studies, and arts administration, are both interdisciplinary majors within Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.