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Periclean Scholars for the Class of 2025 hold induction ceremony
April 6, 2022
The 12-member cohort celebrated its acceptance to the Periclean Scholars Program during a ceremony held in McKinnon Hall on April 5.
Winter Term global programs send Elon students, faculty and staff around the world
January 6, 2022
More than 900 Elon students, faculty and staff travel on 37 global programs this January, including 28 programs offered through the Isabella Cannon Global Education Center (GEC), three graduate programs, and six Fellows cohorts.
A dive into the 2022-23 Common Reading: ‘Factfulness’ by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund
November 10, 2021
The 2018 book by Swedish physician Rosling and his children focuses on why society as a whole assumes the worst and how the truth is actually not as a bad as we think.
Periclean Scholars serve as common reading peer-educators addressing racial inequality
October 7, 2021
As part of their sophomore Periclean coursework, members of the Periclean Scholars Class of 2024 created interactive exercises and discussion questions related to the Common Reading, and worked with fellow Elon students as peer-educators to facilitate engagement with this text.
Common Reading author Jason Reynolds: Living an antiracist life is a ‘lifelong journey’
September 29, 2021
Best-selling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds delivered the Common Reading lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 21, focused on his work on this year's selection, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You."
Gendle publishes essay on Sarvodaya social movement
January 20, 2021
In this essay, Director of Project Pericles and Professor of Psychology Mathew Gendle elevates Sri Lanka’s Sarvodaya movement as a model for populist solutions to governmental dysfunction in the U.S.
Johnson publishes on Maroons in New West Indian Guide
December 2, 2020
Amy M. Johnson published on Jamaica's Windward Maroon Slaveholders in the New West Indian Guide.
‘Truly an Elon-produced book’: Collaborative effort drives Anthony Hatcher’s new textbook
October 26, 2020
The chair of the Journalism Department teamed with School of Communications faculty members Julie Lellis, Doug Kass and Brooks Fuller to produce an introductory media writing textbook specific to the needs of the school’s students.
Jennifer L. Eberhardt tackles bias during live Common Reading conversation
September 10, 2020
The author of "Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do," joined the Elon community for a live discussion of the university's Common Reading selection on Sept. 9.