Elon hosts DTV call center for state residents

June 17, 2009

The national switch to digital television broadcasting on Friday spurred hundreds of calls to a phone bank at Elon University, where students and staff from the Federal Communications Commission assisted North Carolina viewers with complaints of lost TV signals or requests for analog-to-digital converter box coupons.

CBS Evening News features ’09 Elon alum

June 9, 2009

When Robert Hoppey '09 saw a tough job market in the year leading up to his graduation, he built a "souped-up multimedia resume" that included a video spoof of "The Office" television program to show potential employers his creative side. CBS Evening News took note, too, and Hoppey was featured in a June 8 nationwide segment on the ways college graduates are marketing themselves in an economic recession.

Hunter Bacot cited in RealClearPolitics article

June 4, 2009

The nationally acclaimed political web site RealClearPolitics quoted Hunter Bacot, director of the Elon University Poll, in a June 3 article that examines North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr’s prospects for re-election in 2010.

Elaine Durr profiled in Triad Business Journal special report

June 1, 2009

Elaine Durr, Elon University's sustainability coordinator, is one of five people profiled in the Triad Business Journal's special report, "Sustainability in Business," which appears in its May 29-June 4, 2009, edition.

Ashley Hairston speaks with News 14 Carolina on Supreme Court

May 29, 2009

Eric Ashley Hairston, an assistant professor of English and director of the Center for Law and Humanities, was interviewed May 29 by News 14 Carolina anchor Tracey Early regarding Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Elon Law charter class students Phillip Cornett, Michele Cybulski, and Miriam Heard featured in News and Record column

May 26, 2009

News and Record columnist Jeri Rowe writes in a May 21 article titled, "Elon Law graduates out to make a difference," that charter class students all sound like Atticus Finch, the legal advocate from the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," in that they all, "want to make a difference."

Elon Law's charter class contributions to Greensboro featured on WFMY News 2

May 26, 2009

George R. Johnson, Jr., Dean of Elon University School of Law, and Luke Spencer, a member of the charter class, spoke with WFMY News 2 reporter Justin Quesinberry on May 22 about the impacts that the law school is having on the economic and social well-being of Greensboro.

Elon Law charter class featured on Fox 8 News

May 21, 2009

Charter class members Jason Aycoth, Melissa Duncan, Nichelle Harrison, and Eleftherios Xixis, as well as Assstant Dean for Admissions Sharon Gaskin, were featured in a May 19 news story about the contributions of the class to the law school and to Greensboro, on WGHP-TV Fox 8 News.

Linda Wilmshurst speaks with Fox 8 News on “Why We Lie”

May 19, 2009

Linda Wilmshurst, an associate professor of psychology, provided expert commentary for Fox 8 News on May 6 in "The Buckley Report" feature segment that is distributed to Fox affiliates nationwide.

Brooke Barnett and communications students featured in Fox 8 ‘Buckley Report’

May 4, 2009

An Elon University faculty member and two School of Communications students were featured March 11 in a Fox 8 (WGHP/High Point, N.C.) feature segment that examined the level of privacy, or lack thereof, that teenagers and young adults expect in the era of Facebook and YouTube.