Elon Alumni

Alexandra Fippinger "Alex" Scovel '08 received the Exemplary Service to Carolina Community Award from the University of South Carolina at the institution's Annual Recognition Breakfast in April.

Doug Finberg ’94, executive vice president for marketing at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, became the second Communications alumnus to receive the inaugural-year Distinguished Alumni Award in the School of Communications on April 26.

Jamie Albright, who is researching teenagers born with HIV, was honored with the Thomas Barnett “Breaking Down Barriers” Scholarship.

April Durr '01, director of Healthy Alamance in Burlington, N.C., was spotlighted in April for her work with the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute Community Advisory Board for the Greensboro region.

Entrepreneurs Brent Gilmore '10 and Katie Pietrowski '10 visited campus April 26 to participate in a panel discussion as part of the C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture Series in the Martha & Spencer Love School of Business.

In an April 21 article, the Arizona Republic featured Kyle Johnson '10 and his sister's efforts to serve others in the wake of their father's death.

Alan Wooten '87 has been hired to lead the Henderson Daily Dispatch, which serves Vance, Granville and Warren counties in North Carolina.