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Alumni in Action: Nasia Thomas ’15 gets her big break on Broadway
October 19, 2021
Thomas, a music theatre alumna of Elon, has returned to Broadway as productions have resumed following the pandemic.
Alumni in Action: Sarah Holdren ’18 pursues career in medicine to ‘elevate the stories of those experiencing illness’
October 8, 2021
Early on in her Elon career, Sarah Holdren '18 found a passion for maternal and child health. In these unprecedented times, she is striving to understand how COVID-19 will affect future generations.
Crafting a simpler way of life with bus conversion company
June 29, 2021
Megan Donahue ’20 and her mother convert school buses into mobile homes in honor of her late brother.
Alumni in Action: Rachel Vad-Miller ’15 leads Denmark volunteer agency helping children
June 17, 2021
Vad-Miller chairs her local Save the Children Youth board, recruiting new volunteers and coordinating efforts to assist children and families near Copenhagen, Denmark.
Alumni in Action: Noah Carton Rossen ’18 conducts important COVID-19 research
June 11, 2021
Rossen and colleagues at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City conducted important research on COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic.
Colin Deutsch ‘20 working on frontlines of pandemic in Alamance County
May 13, 2021
Deutsch is one of Alamance County’s six service year fellows who has been working alongside the Alamance County Health Department to provide support to local residents.
Alumni in Action: Anna Slattery ’13 mitigates the impact of COVID-19 on at-risk communities
May 6, 2021
Slattery and her team at The Hunger Project leveraged their network of 500,000 leaders, including nearly 333,000 women, to spread awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic among communities most at risk for contracting and suffering complications from the disease.
Alumni in Action: Chris Adamik ’20 helps develop Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
March 22, 2021
Adamik is part of Moderna's DNA manufacturing department, which develops DNA used in the biotechnology company's mRNA vaccines. That DNA helped speed the breakthrough mRNA-1273 COVID vaccine now in wide distribution across America.
Alumni in Action: Jamie Snover ’20 Raises Crucial Funds for Shelter Animals during Texas Storm
March 5, 2021
The recent graduate worked through COVID-19 and the Texas winter storm to generate funds for Austin Pets Alive!, a no-kill animal shelter in Austin.
Alumni in Action: Caroline McSwain Ryskiewich ’14 G’15 on enriching the lives of senior citizens
November 21, 2020
The Elon alumna works as a life enrichment associate at a senior living community in Durham where she makes meaningful connections with residents during a time of increased isolation.