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Assistant professor Dion Farganis spoke with News 14 Carolina for a "TalkBack" segment on the Elena Kagan hearings that took place in Washington this summer as lawmakers prepare to vote on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If you think U.S. Supreme Court nominees have become much more evasive in recent years during their confirmation hearings, Dion Farganis, an Elon University assistant professor of political science, offers a bit of advice: Think again. Work by Farganis received national attention this week as the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings into Elena Kagan’s nomination to the highest court in the land.

Assistant professor Jason Kirk was a featured guest June 30 on "The State of Things" program hosted by WUNC, a North Carolina affiliate of National Public Radio.

Elon University's website is one of three higher education websites nominated for excellence in visual design in the 2010 eduStyle Awards competition. The site is designed and maintained by Elon's website manager David Morton, web designer Tim Paulson and web applications developer John David Parsons.

The Elon University Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of associate professor Jon Metzger, completed this month a performance tour of The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. The 18-piece jazz ensemble played at international festivals and schools, gave jazz improvisation workshops, and showed their versatility by also performing two classical music chamber concerts.

Elon University Poll director Hunter Bacot spoke at length in June with NBC17 in Raleigh, N.C., and with the national news organization Real Clear Politics about the challenges faced by Democrats in unseating U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., in November.

Seven faculty members, students and alumni helped May 8 to build a 2-mile portion in Alamance County of the state's 1,000-mile-long Mountains-to-Sea Trail.

Mileah Kromer, an assistant professor of political science, spoke at length with News 14 Carolina on June 11 about the upcoming runoff election between N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and former state Sen. Cal Cunningham for the Democratic nomination to take on incumbent U.S. Sen. Richard Burr in November.

A new survey conducted by Elon's Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Internet Project finds that technology experts predict people who use the Internet will "live mostly in the cloud" by 2020, working primarily through applications based on remote servers and accessed through networked devices.

Elon University young alumna Kristine Silverstri served as a guest writer this week for Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, who published on his newspaper blog Silvestri's account of contracting malaria when she visited Ghana in late 2008.