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BusinessWeek featured Elon's efforts to reach out to students' families as part of its Career Services programs. The magazine says, " ... It's hard to find a school that has more seamlessly capitalized on friends and family networks than Elon University in North Carolina..."

Elon University is one of 25 colleges and universities highlighted in the 2010 edition of the Newsweek-Kaplan college guide. This is Elon's second appearance in the guide; in 2006 Newsweek-Kaplan named Elon the nation's "hottest college" for engaged learning.

Professor emeritus David Noer is scheduled to appear on Fox Business Network on Friday, Sept. 4, at 10:20 a.m. to discuss his book Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Corporations.

Elon University School of Law's inaugural commencement exercises were featured May 25 on North Carolina public radio station WUNC as the latest example of Elon University's expansion and rise to national prominence.

The (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record reported Aug. 26 on work by associate professor Mat Gendle and his undergraduate researchers into the effects, or lack thereof, of the popular Red Bull energy drink.

Elon University continues its position of national prominence in the 2010 “America’s Best Colleges” rankings released Aug. 20 by US News & World Report. Again this year, Elon is named by the magazine as the top “up-and-coming” university in the nation on a list of 77 schools that are “leading the pack in improvements and innovative changes.” And in a new US News ranking, Elon is ranked among the nation’s top schools for its strong faculty commitment to undergraduate teaching.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor of communications, was interviewed by Kansas Public Radio this week for his documentary "Prisoners of Plenty," a film that recounts the lives of German POWs imprisoned in Kansas during World War II.

Bob Anderson, associate professor of political science, was a member of News14 Carolina’s panel of experts during the station’s broadcast coverage of the visit by President Barack Obama to North Carolina on July 29.

For the seventh year in a row, Elon is ranked among the nation's top colleges and universities by The Princeton Review. The 2010 college guide, released July 28, ranks schools based on a survey of 122,000 students from across the nation.