Keren Rivas

Join Dr. Aya Elyada from Duke University’s Department of History in Lindner 112 from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. as she talks on Jewish Language and Culture in Early Modern Germany.

Join students in GEO 310/GST 317 (8 a.m. to 9:40 a.m.) in Alamance 218 or students in INT 461 (10:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.) in the Honors Pavilion, room 101, as they hear Ms. Breton speak about Extractive Industries and Conservation in Amazonia.

Members of the Class of 2014 gathered in the Academic Village Thursday morning to pledge their commitment to Elon University’s honor code at the fifth annual Call to Honor Ceremony. “We’re honor-bound by the values of honesty, integrity, responsibility and respect,” said SGA President Taylor Martin. “These are the hallmark values of our education and ourselves.”

Since 2001, Elon’s marching band, the Fire of the Carolinas, has been a fixture on both the field and in the stands at all Elon home football games.

Deep within the Petén Forest, which extends from the eastern Chiapas in Mexico through northern Guatemala and into northwestern Belize, are the ruins of the once powerful Maya. And though the pre-Columbian civilization collapsed centuries ago, the site of Dos Hombres, in Belize, still holds many secrets waiting to be unearthed by archaeologists, anthropologists and researchers, including Elon professor Rissa Trachman and her students.