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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.

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.

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.

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).