News Bureau

Elon University students taking part in the Washington Center’s winter program appeared Wednesday on C-SPAN in a televised seminar with Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Portland (Maine) Press-Herald profiled psychology major Elianna Lantz in a Jan. 6 story on her experience with the Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound program, which the newspaper described as "an 85-day semester hiking from the Pacific Coast to the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica."

In a special section on the future of education, The New York Times cited Elon's Master's in Interactive Media program as an example of a highly specialized program leading the way in master's level education.

Assistant professor of art Young Kim was profiled by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., in a Jan. 3 feature section cover story on his photography and exhibits using salt and sand.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Dec. 20, 2009, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Robert "Bob" Anderson, an associate professor of political science, was interviewed Dec. 18 by News 14 Carolina anchor Tracey Early on the efforts to pass health care reform legislation in Washington and how those efforts were being slowed by a few key leaders.

Jeanne Robertson, a member of the Elon University board of trustees, was featured in the Dec. 14 broadcast of "The State of Things" on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC 91.5. Robertson spoke with host Frank Stasio about her career as a humorist and speaker, and how she approaches her work.

The Daily Beast, one of the leading new Web-based media outlets, has named Elon one of the decade's hottest colleges. The list of 15 colleges and universities ranks schools that make up a "whole new class of first-choice schools" that have "transformed the collegiate landscape" during the past 10 years.

The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., published a column by Jeffrey Coker, an assistant professor of biology, in its Dec. 11 edition. "Energy savings come home" shares with readers the steps that Coker and his family took to save money and help the environment as it relates to their own power and water consumption.

When independent college adviser and Charlotte Observer columnist Lee Bierer received a reader email with a delicate question on the admissions process, she turned to Greg Zaiser, dean of admissions at Elon, who provided a lengthy answer quoted in full in a story posted Nov. 30 on the newspaper's web site.