Articles by Eric Townsend

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Crawford authors book on teaching teens

July 13, 2008

Glenda Crawford, an Elon University professor of education, has written a new book to help middle and high school teachers develop class lessons that reach all kids in their room, whether gifted scholars, special needs students or adolescents with limited English skills.

Elon chef Beijing-bound for Olympics

July 11, 2008

What does it take to feed 15,000 athletes, their trainers, journalists and other support staff at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? Tag Gray, executive chef and a food services director at Elon University, is about to find out.

Senior receives Love School award to help fund research

July 10, 2008

Elon University senior Miya Micole Stodghill, a business administration major from Decatur, Ga., has been named the recipient of the second annual Martha and Spencer Love Excellence in Business Leadership Award.

Elon Academy receives grant for business program

July 9, 2008

The Elon Academy, a three-year enrichment and leadership development program at Elon University for local high school students, has received a grant from the Piedmont Triad Partnership to assist with a program that helps the teenagers prepare for internships and learn workplace behavior expectations.

Scrapbook gives peek at early campus life

July 8, 2008

A student scrapbook now on loan to Belk Library is offering the university a rare glimpse of campus life in the 1920s. The book, which belongs to a family with historic ties to Elon, includes letters, music programs – even photos taken inside the Old Main administration building just hours after a 1923 fire threatened the future of the school.

Farmers markets get fresh look from Elon professor

July 7, 2008

When it comes to fruits and vegetables, about the only place you can find anything fresher than the produce at a local farmers market is in your own garden. But markets offer another benefit – informal associations with others in a community – that Elon economics professor Thomas Tiemann examines in the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Culture.