Student Experience

Twelve sustainably designed homes will become the Loy Farm Living-Learning Community, a model of green architecture where students thrive by living harmoniously with nature. The LLC will open in fall 2024 with all 12 homes completed by fall 2025.

Nic Parsons L’24 credits faculty and staff mentors for their support during her first year of law school – reassurance that led her to an all-expense paid scholarship from the Pauli Murray LGBTQ+ Bar Association to visit Chicago for the 2023 Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair. 

Elon’s Department of Political Science and Policy Studies has hosted the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics since fall 2020. Students and faculty will continue editorial oversight of the national political science honor society’s journal for another three-year term through 2026.

John Ferebee L’24 prevailed in a competition for summer interns with the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the North Carolina Court of Appeals that featured a real case out of Kentucky involving questions of the Fourth Amendment.

Adner, a biochemistry major, spent the eight-week program interning with Elon Oaks Veterinary Hospital.

Mark Dobson '24 and Olivia Halperin '26 are CAA Health Science Research Scholars, a program aimed at increasing high-quality undergraduate research and mentoring. They and Elon faculty attended a summer workshop to strengthen virtual mentoring experiences.

The annual summer research experience culminated in poster presentations from 45 research teams.

Sarah Dawkins ’25, Kenny Mallory ’25 and Miles Vance ’24 were among the nearly four dozen students who shared their research on July 19 at the SURE research presentations in McKinnon Hall.

The 12-day residential journalism workshop, made possible through $300,000 in grant funding from the Scripps Howard Fund, welcomed high school students from across the country to Elon University’s campus for an in-depth dive into journalism, communications and media.

Incoming first-year Elon students spent a week with on-campus organizations and community partners to get first-hand experience of service opportunities Elon provides.