Eric Townsend

Paul J. Geis, assistant director for affiliations and exchanges in the Isabella Cannon International Centre, participated in the inaugural Fulbright Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar in India this spring for international education administrators from the United States.

What does it take to be a good reporter? NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has several thoughts, including: “Know your audience. Know your subject.” One of America’s most acclaimed journalists on Friday shared with Elon University students his views on the media, technology, and on balancing work and family in a Whitley Auditorium question-and-answer discussion sprinkled with wit and wisdom.

Contribute to the conversation of Convocation for Honors on Thursday by including #ElonVoices in your tweets. Receive news from Elon University's Office of University Relations by following @elonuniversity on Twitter - and be sure to check out full coverage on E-net in the hours following the ceremony.

Students who responded to the provost's survey indicating they will participate In Convocation for Honors on Thursday, April 7, can read this note for more information regarding academic regalia and procedures for the event.

What would Satan say about nuclear weapons? Or politicians and their mistresses? Or Disney World? And would he say it in a … blog? Such is the premise of Devil's Ink: Blog from the Basement Office by Elon University professor Jeffrey C. Pugh, who uses Lucifer’s point of view in a new book critiquing cultural institutions that readers may assume are necessary without considering the evil they can create.

The Elon Opera Workshop gives two performances this week of Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, one of the most beloved comic operas in history. Tickets to the April 7 & 9 shows are available to the public at the door for $7 or are free with an Elon ID.

Elon Director of Choral Activities and associate professor Stephen A. Futrell appeared as featured guest vocal soloist with the National Youth Choir at Carnegie Hall on April 3.

Professor Anne Bolin was the invited speaker for the The Cultural Anthropology Graduate Speaker Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., on March 18. Her presentation was titled “Complicating Gender: Border Crossings and Back.”

Elon University students in a spring semester computer information systems class are learning more about the Alamance County community as they work together to design websites for local agencies that help the mentally and developmentally disabled.

News & Observer reporter Yonat Shimron, University of South Carolina journalism professor Cecile Holmes and Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell will participate in a April 4 panel moderated by Elon University professor Tom Arcaro, discussing the portrayal of atheism through local and regional media and how this influences society. The event takes place in the LaRose Digital Theatre at 7:30 p.m.