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Tom Mac Mahon, chairman and former chief executive officer of Laboratory Corportation of America (LabCorp), has been named the first Executive-in-Residence at Elon’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Details...

A new Elon University Poll of five Southeastern states shows 57 percent of respondents disapprove or strongly disapprove of President Bush's plan to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, while 58 percent disapprove of the way he is handling his job as president, up from 52 percent in a February 2006 poll of the same states. Details...

Alan Woodlief, associate dean for admissions and administration for the Elon University School of Law, has been named one of the Triad's "40 Leaders Under Forty" by The Business Journal, a weekly newspaper serving the area's business community. Details...

Elon University has received a $150,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to establish a program to allow high school and college faculty members to collaborate on ways to improve teaching. Details...

Nicole Sacco, a senior sociology major, has won the North Carolina Sociological Association's top award for undergraduate research at a four-year college. Details...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt drew plenty of laughs while discussing his teaching career, his writing and how his life has changed since the publication of his bestselling first book, "Angela's Ashes," during a question-and-answer session Feb. 13 in Whitley Auditorium. Details...