News Bureau

Elon University has been recognized for the fourth year in a row as a national leader in service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National & Community Service named the university this week to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for exemplary service efforts to America's communities.

Most experts surveyed in a new Elon University/Pew Internet study say the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence. The survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders reveals fascinating new perspectives on the way the Internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways that information is being shared and rendered.

James Pratt ’06, who graduated with a bachelor’s of science in athletic training, was pictured in the Feb. 22 edition of USA Today in a feature story on ways athletes are recovering from injuries.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Feb. 14, 2010, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

The 2010 U.S. Census "Portrait of America" Road Tour stopped at Elon University on Tuesday as part of the largest civic outreach and awareness campaign in the bureau's history, with a specific focus on the hard-to-count demographics such as college students and economically disadvantaged Americans.

Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the Feb. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal for a remembrance story on Phillip Martin, a leader of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who died earlier in the month.

Elon University sophomore Frank Stiefel had an opinion column published in the Feb. 7, 2010, Sunday edition of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Elon MBA candidate Jayson Judy and the university's men's golf program have been featured on GolfDigest.com for their idea to raise money for Haiti relief efforts in an "Eagles for Haiti" initiative.

John McGreevy '10, an environmental studies and biology major who was in Haiti during the devastating earthquake, recounts his experiences and efforts to assist victims in the Jan. 27 edition of The Mercury newspaper of Pottstown, Penn. McGreevy helped with emergency supplies, worked with orphans, witnessed emergency surgeries, and used his outdoor skills to become the de facto sanitation engineer in an area of Port-au-Prince. Click here to read the story…

Brooke Barnett, an associate professor of communications, spoke with WFMY News 2 for a Jan. 28 morning show segment on the changing face of activism in the age of social media.