Events

The German Studies program celebrated another successful year and awarded Rising Stars, Achievement Awards and Inductions into the National German Honor Society.

The School of Health Sciences Student Diversity Committee hosted a Cultural Game Night, inviting students, faculty and staff to "play something new and meet someone new" while celebrating the unique diversity of the students, faculty, and staff in the School of Health Sciences at Elon.

A May swearing-in ceremony hosted by the Greensboro Bar Association marked the culmination of law school graduates’ studies as they joined the North Carolina and federal courts.

Elon University celebrated the Class of 2026 on May 22 as students officially became alumni during the university’s 136th Commencement Ceremonies in Schar Center, where they were encouraged to embrace failure, pursue growth and remain hopeful about the future.

Students, staff, faculty and friends joined together at Irazú Coffee for the fifth annual Global Vision song contest. Performers can either do karaoke, sing an original song, or lip sync, the one stipulation is that it must be in a language other than English.

The FDHE Convention, occurring in late June, will bring together experts in design thinking to the Center for Design Thinking, Duke University’s campus.

For the tenth year, Elon international students planted oak saplings in a grove on South Campus on May 21 - a symbol of their growth during their time at Elon.

The Class of 2026 marks the second cohort to graduate from the university’s four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. On May 20, the graduates were honored in a pinning ceremony in McCrary Theatre.

Candidates from graduate-level programs in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education and Martha and Spencer Love School of Business received their diplomas during a joint Commencement ceremony May 20 in Alumni Gym.

The Class of 2026 gathered Under the Oaks on May 19 for Numen Lumen: Senior Baccalaureate, a time for reflection on the light students will take into the world.