Eric Townsend

Elon students and faculty are planning a trip to the second-poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere to help build what one trip leader dubbed “a mini Honduran Wal-Mart.” Proceeds from the trip benefit a charity that aids impoverished children.

Elon University has once again been named the top organization in Alamance County for the amount of blood its students, staff and faculty donate to the American Red Cross. And the Red Cross continues to look for more donors during the holidays, a time when blood supplies everywhere begin to dwindle.

The shampoo vials you took from the hotel at the beach last summer? Samantha Tremblay wants ‘em. She'll also take the free shower caps and hand soap. Tremblay, an Elon senior, is the driving force behind a nonprofit that collects toiletries for impoverished families. And she’s trying to expand her reach.

He “wrote like a maniac” for a year until his pen spun out with a bad case of writer’s block. But after accepting an offer to join Elon University's religious studies department in 2005, L.D. Russell hit the literary gas pedal once more. His finished work, “Godspeed: Racing is My Religion,” explores how NASCAR can be a religious experience for its fans – just like it is for him.

An Elon faculty member was honored this fall for her research on the way writers at marketing communication agencies draw on personal knowledge to write effectively, even if they at first know little about their clients' corporate practices.

Thirty-three candidates in the university’s DPT program received their degrees on Dec. 9, 2007, in a ceremony featuring remarks from Elon President Leo M. Lambert and an address from Steven L. Wolf, a professor and director of research at Emory University’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.

A candlelight service and moment of silence will take place on campus Dec. 9 as part of a national push to keep missing Elon alumnus Kyle Fleischmann in the forefront of public consciousness. The services take place one month to the day after Fleischmann vanished in Charlotte, N.C.

Sophomore wide receiver Terrell Hudgins became just the second Elon University football player – and first offensive Phoenix player – to ever be named to a Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America team when the 2007 squad was announced on Dec. 7, 2007.