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Job-Hunt.org cites Elon Career Services (Twitter.com/HireElonGrads) in a list of 50 "Best and Brightest" colleges and universities supporting students and alumni through Career Services Twitter accounts.

Twenty Elon students are living and working in the Big Apple this month as part of the inaugural Summer in the City: Elon in New York program sponsored by the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Students are interning at major firms and nonprofits in the fields of finance, marketing, communications and entrepreneurship while residing in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and completing a professional development course.

A new program to help Elon students make smart job search decisions based on geographical preference, all while connecting them with alumni and other professionals, was recently cited as a best practices model at the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual conference in Las Vegas.

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.

Faculty and staff have started their move into Lindner Hall, Elon University's newest academic building, as work crews this week continue exterior work on what will be the “greenest” facility on campus upon completion.

Just off the Commencement stage, where graduates walk after getting diplomas, is the spot for family photography. Watch a video of grads and parents saving the milestone moment in pictures...

Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly with God. For the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, the chaplain of Brown University who delivered a sermon May 22 at Elon University's Baccalaurate, graduates should follow those simple lessons as they embark on their life journeys.

Some members of the Class of 2009 took time to send messages of thanks to parents, professors and mentors on May 22 as they gathered for receptions prior to Baccalaureate ceremonies.