Eric Townsend

If the maker of Big Red and Juicy Fruit thinks its chewing gums have a monopoly on boosting your memory, it should think again. New work by Elon University faculty member Amy Overman and her undergraduate researchers show that gum itself isn’t special – any candy or oral activity probably works just as well at sharpening the mind.

Ron Klepcyk, director of human resources at Elon University, will be returning next year to the national board of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

For two weeks this month, 64 rising freshmen participated in the First Year Summer Experience trip Adventures in Leadership.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had a column published in BusinessWeek this month in which he offers company executives ways to manage stress when they are forced to make layoffs.

Mathew Gendle, an associate professor of psychology, and several Elon Academy scholars from summer 2009 have been featured in an instructor’s resource video produced and distributed by Carolina Biological Supply Company.

Students in a summer sociology course had an opportunity this week to learn about recovery efforts in Iraq by interacting directly with an artist living in Baghdad who answered questions from them in an online chat.

The Elon Center for Leadership, in cooperation with the Elon Center for Public Affairs, has concluded its first series of summer workshops and training events at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Professors and staff from universities across North America will be meeting over the next two years to participate in an Elon University-sponsored seminar to develop and research methods for teaching students how to think in ways appropriate to democratic societies.

Support for community nonprofits is something many people feel is a moral imperative. Kelly King, the top executive at North Carolina-based BB&T, believes corporate and individual giving makes good business sense, too. King spoke at Elon University on July 22, offering his economic outlook and explaining why support for agencies like the United Way is crucial in the current era.

In one room on Tuesday, first and second graders place animals on a magnetic storyboard. Down the hall, older students listen to a tale of wombats. Children enrolled in a School of Education program are attending classes on campus this month for an enrichment academy that serves as an internship setting for current and future special needs teachers in Elon’s graduate education program.