Eric Townsend

Belk Library celebrates its 10th anniversary this week with a series of events and prizes for visitors, including nightly refreshments through Thursday and a special College Coffee with birthday cake and other celebration materials.

Elon's Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society welcomed its 2010 inductees in a Feb. 7 afternoon ceremony in McKinnon Hall. Students are juniors or seniors in the top 35 percent of their class who have been in residence at least one semester, and who have exhibited outstanding leadership in more than one area of the university community.

The 2010 U.S. Census "Portrait of America" Road Tour stopped at Elon University on Tuesday as part of the largest civic outreach and awareness campaign in the bureau's history, with a specific focus on the hard-to-count demographics such as college students and economically disadvantaged Americans.

On the brink of collapse in 2008, two American icons – General Motors and Chrysler – turned to Uncle Sam for billions of dollars to stay in business. But as assistant professor Christina Benson finds in her latest research, by protecting domestic automakers to save U.S. jobs in the short run, Washington may have created bigger headaches for the American economy in the not-so-distant future.

Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the Feb. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal for a remembrance story on Phillip Martin, a leader of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who died earlier in the month.

Elon University sophomore Frank Stiefel had an opinion column published in the Feb. 7, 2010, Sunday edition of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Elon MBA candidate Jayson Judy and the university's men's golf program have been featured on GolfDigest.com for their idea to raise money for Haiti relief efforts in an "Eagles for Haiti" initiative.

McEwen Dining Hall, including Downstairs McEwen and Varsity, will be closed for repairs starting at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 4, with no set date for reopening.

More than four years after the storm, a group of 16 students and faculty participated in Elon’s 22nd trip to Bay St. Louis, Miss., this winter for Hurricane Katrina relief work during Fake Break.

An Alamance County family has donated to Elon a quarter acre next to the northern edge of campus near Rhodes Stadium, where a two-room wooden building first opened before the Civil War still stands as one of North Carolina’s original public school facilities.