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David Gergen's speech at Elon University's Commencement on May 21. Provided by Greg Honan, research assistant to Gergen.
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David Gergen's speech at Elon University's Commencement on May 21. Provided by Greg Honan, research assistant to Gergen.
Dr. James Earl Danieley, a member of the Elon University faculty since 1946, will retire from teaching at the end of the 2015-2016 academic year, according to family members and university sources.
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was sentenced on April 27 to 15 months in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and two years of supervised release for a hush-money case involving the sexual abuse of teenage boys.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died from natural causes Feb. 13, according to Texas authorities. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and serving until his death, the 79-year-old was the longest serving justice on the current Supreme Court.
Doctors working in the maternity wards of Recife, Brazil, noticed a spike in late August 2015 in babies born with a medical condition known as microcephaly — a defect characterized by normal head construction up to the eyebrows but with little-to-no forehead or upper cranial formation. Since then, scientists discovered that the Zika virus, a pathogen carried by female mosquitos, is the likely cause.
The FBI has recently released video of a Jan. 26 shooting in Oregon, the climax of a month-long standoff involving more than a dozen individuals occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon.
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Elon University's chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma earned recognition from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business as a High Honors Chapter for the 2014-2015 academic year.
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will officially know by the end of the week if the title of Speaker of the House will be in his future.