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Imagining the Internet study: moving from the desktop to “the cloud”
June 11, 2010
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.
Students author books to assist local nonprofit center
June 9, 2010
Students in a spring semester English class have published two children’s books and a coffee table book to help support The Conservators' Center, a nonprofit exotic wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina's Caswell County.
Professor launches “idea summit” for journalism innovations in minority communities
June 8, 2010
An effort conceived by Elon University associate professor Michelle Ferrier to reinvent journalism’s role in the nation's underserved communities, by seeding entrepreneurial media and technology ventures, will bring together this week several dozen leading media entrepreneurs and observers to an "idea summit" at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Elon professor receives NEH grant for new course
June 4, 2010
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded associate professor Shawn Tucker an Enduring Questions Grant to fund the development of a new interdisciplinary course, "Pride, Humility, and the Good Life," that will help students define their own concepts of pride and humility through research and analysis.
Q&A with Elon’s Drew Perry on debut novel
June 2, 2010
When Jack Lang, the owner of a North Carolina mulch company, impulsively buys the house across the street from where he lives, it’s the final straw for his wife, Beth, who flees into the arms of Jack’s best friend. What happens next is the plot to “This is Just Exactly Like You,” Elon University associate professor Drew Perry’s debut novel and a work of fiction garnering rave reviews from national book critics.
Library of Congress to include Imagining the Internet Web site
May 27, 2010
The United States Library of Congress has selected Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Web site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials.
Elon co-produces DVD on public information challenges
May 27, 2010
Following the 2001 terror attacks and a push for security of government information, constitutional protection for published works grew exponentially, making access to records, including traditionally public documents, more difficult for journalists. "Access Denied," a new DVD co-produced by the Elon University Program for Documentary Production, chronicles that trend and offers additional tips and resources for reporters.
Teach for America hires Elon alumni for fall 2010
May 24, 2010
Fourteen Elon University alumni in the Class of 2010 will re-enter the classroom this fall as educators with Teach for America, a national nonprofit that recruits recent college graduates to help erase what it describes as educational inequity found in many urban and rural low-income communities.
Elon University graduates first Interactive Media master's class
May 24, 2010
Thirty-six students began their journey as the first class in Elon University's Interactive Media master's program in July 2009. Just 10 months later, on May 20, those same three dozen students celebrated their commencement by crossing Whitley Auditorium's stage and receiving their graduate diplomas from Elon President Leo M. Lambert.
Elon MBA students receive degrees
May 24, 2010
Elon University leaders conferred degrees on May 21, 2010, to the largest class in MBA program history during a Commencement ceremony in Whitley Auditorium attended by faculty, staff, family and friends of the graduate students.