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Threat detectors: Elon team focuses on airport safety
November 13, 2014
Associate Professor Scott Wolter ’85 and two Elon students are measuring x-ray patterns of everyday items as part of a broader effort to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security develop a new generation of airport explosive-detection technology.
Elon University Chamber Orchestra praised in News & Record review
November 13, 2014
The largest daily newspaper in central North Carolina called the ensemble's fall concert a program "full of color and masterful playing" and lauded Professor Thomas Erdmann for his conducting.
Syllabuzz: GST 375 – Prison Nation
November 12, 2014
Is prison an actual deterrent to crime? That's one of the many questions Associate Professor of English Prudence Layne asks her students as part of this upper level interdisciplinary course.
Anthony Hatcher publishes article about WWII veteran on Huffington Post
November 12, 2014
The associate professor of communications interviewed 92-year-old J.C. Nethercutt, a WWII vet who was Hatcher's neighbor when he was growing up in eastern North Carolina. Nethercutt, who served as an ambulance driver in the Army, nearly died in a mishap a few days after landing on Normandy in 1944.
Lauren Kearns to premiere dance company's first full season – Nov. 14-15
November 11, 2014
Lauren Kearns, an associate professor of dance, is presenting her professional dance company's first full season as well as the premiere of two new works from Nov. 14-15, 2014, at Durham's PSI Theatre.
Campus Uncommons: Gerry Waterman
November 11, 2014
An artist and winemaker, Father Gerry Waterman believes he was created to create. His original watercolor paintings and bottles of homemade wine are evidence of this mantra.
Military veterans honored during campus remembrance ceremony
November 11, 2014
Men and women who have served in the U.S. military were thanked and recognized during Elon's annual Veterans Day event on Nov. 11.
Elon Wind Ensemble to present world premiere performance of newly commissioned work – Nov. 16
November 11, 2014
The Elon University Wind Ensemble "Phoenix Winds" will present the world preimere performance of Kinetic Dance, for two scrap metal birds (inspired by the art installation "Phoenix" from Chinese artist Xu Bing), a newly comissioned work from award winning composer David Clay Mettens at their fall concert this Sunday, November 16 at 7:30pm in McCrary Theater (free admission).
In My Words: Lord Mansfield shows why Jane Austen still matters
November 11, 2014
Professor Rosemary Haskell reflects in a newspaper column on the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" and points to issues of poverty, class and gender that remain relevant today.