Alumni

Three Elon University seniors – Chris Jarrett, Gabrielle Dean and Brittany Carroll – have each been awarded Fulbright Program grants for overseas research and teaching, and their selections represent the largest number of students in university history to receive the prestigious national honor in the same academic year.

MGM Studios has named Doug Finberg '94 its executive vice president of marketing.

Football players Elliott Armstrong '94 and Mitch Rippy '80, volleyball player Priscilla Awkard '94 and women’s soccer player Amy Williamson '93 will be inducted into the Elon Sports Hall of Fame on Sept. 10.

Learn about Elon's time-honored customs and most cherished people and places on Elon's new Traditions Book website.

Ten outstanding Elon alumni will be honored Oct. 22 for professional achievements, community service and contributions to Elon at the annual Alumni Association Awards Ceremony.

If you tripped over lines of wire in the main hallway of McEwen communications building this week, blame Troy Senkiewicz.

The Rev. Dr. Walstein W. "Wally" Snyder '45, whose leadership of Elon Homes for Children transformed a generation of children, died Aug. 29, at his home in Burlington.

I walk up a set of rickety metal steps on the side of an 18-wheeler and cautiously open a steel door. I am faced with a scene that would make Ray Bradbury shudder: a tiny room jammed with flat-screen monitors playing to a dozen people behind computers wearing futuristic glasses, shouting things like “Go for gold” and “the Flag is down.” But this is not a scene from a foreboding science fiction novel. It’s my life.