Keren Rivas

President Barack Obama nominated Gortney on June 24 to lead U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.

The award, given by the National Bar Association, recognizes young lawyers under the age of 40 who demonstrate unprecedented achievement in law practice, politics, business or public service.

Besides having the highest percentage of its former student-athletes making gifts to the Phoenix Club, the team also placed third for its participation percentage increase.

MJ Jacobsen, senior vice president of communications for the National Geographic Society, challenged the 38 “digital natives” in the Interactive Media Class of 2014 to never be complacent about learning new things.

Alumni can now participate in one of Elon's most cherished traditions: giving oak saplings to recent graduates.

An immunologist-turned-businessman, Niclas Stiernholm ’89 is at the helm of a Canadian biopharmaceutical company making advances in the fight against cancer.

When Toorialey Fazly ’14 left Afghanistan in 2010 to come to Elon, he was expecting the experience to be uneventful. What Fazly, who graduates this spring from the university, found instead transformed his life.

For the second consecutive year, Elon’s Washington, D.C., Alumni Chapter has won the Capital Alumni Network’s 2014 Outstanding Networking/Social Development Award.