Eric Townsend

Alaina Pineda ’09 saw a disconnect between the campus community and the university’s art collection, and the art history major wanted to convey her passion for artwork by “unmasking the problems of the art collection in a scholarly way.” Her subsequent research project, “More Than Just Stuff on the Wall,” was presented at SURF this week and is the last in a series of E-net profiles to highlight undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2009.

If a guest speaker can’t make it to an Elon classroom from across the country, campus technology staff members have another solution: bring the class to the speaker. How? Ship them a video conference unit that plugs right into an Internet connection.

Tripp York, an instructor of religious studies at Elon, explores the lives of Christian anarchists who attempted to address materialism, racism and militarism in Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century, published this month by Wipf & Stock and York’s third book since 2007.

Cynthia Fair, an associate professor of human services, has published an article in the Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth. "'I don’t want to sit by you:' A Preliminary Study of Stories and Consequences of Stigma and Discrimination from HIV-positive Mothers and their Children” included interviews with HIV-positive women and their uninfected children about experiences of stigma and discrimination.

An Elon University faculty member and two School of Communications students were featured March 11 in a Fox 8 (WGHP/High Point, N.C.) feature segment that examined the level of privacy, or lack thereof, that teenagers and young adults expect in the era of Facebook and YouTube.

Twenty-nine rising sophomores from the Alamance-Burlington School System have been selected to join the third class of scholars in the Elon Academy, an enrichment program for academically talented students, on the Elon University campus.

More than 100 students joined the Career Services staff by Fonville Fountain on Thursday, April 30, for the Career Carnival.

Elon University senior Kelly Erin McCarty has been named the recipient of a DACOR Bacon House Foundation fellowship for graduate study in international affairs, an award of up to $10,000 that will assist her this fall as she begins work toward a graduate degree related to human rights and social justice.