Eric Townsend

A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history is now in its third day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.

Elizabeth Kolbert, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change and The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, visits Elon University on March 10 for an evening lecture sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum.

Elon University professors, students and alumni continue to make news this winter through their research and activities. Notable in February was media coverage of the Elon University Poll, broadcast news appearances by faculty who discussed Super Bowl ads and the Watson computer on Jeopardy!, and reports on the opening of Campus Kitchen at Elon University.

A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history is now in its second day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.

Clifton Johnson, assistant director of campus center operations, made a presentation on March 1 in Chicago at the Association of College Unions International annual conference.

Thomas Edward Powell Jr. ’19, a native North Carolinian who spent his early career as a professor at Elon College before founding the Carolina Biological Supply Company and its related enterprises, will be recognized this week as part of Elon University’s annual Founders Day celebrations to commemorate the lives of administrators, faculty and trustees who impacted the growth of the institution.

The Elon University Bateman Team hosted the Financial Friday Festival on March 4 outside Moseley Center, a culminating event for the group after a month of promoting financial literacy on the campus and in the community through its "Better Luck with Your Buck" public relations campaign.

A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history begins today with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.

Two Elon University students have been named finalists for a 2011 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship awarded each year to college juniors with goals of working in education, government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, or elsewhere in public service.