Members of the Elon community lined up on a blue tarp spread across Young Commons Friday afternoon in preparation for this year’s Holi celebration. On the count of three, colorful clouds exploded across Young Commons as participants heaved paint into the air.
Delivering his knowledge to a packed Numen Lumen McBride Gathering Space Thursday evening, Rabbi Irving Greenberg talked about analyzing the state of Israel through projected theological lenses.
Lynn Huber, associate professor of religious studies and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, will be the new Honors Program director beginning fall 2017. She will succeed the current director, professor of anthropology Tom Mould, after shadowing him throughout the upcoming academic year. Mould will remain on staff as an anthropology professor.
The Sororities and Fraternities at Elon University have been preparing themselves for several months and putting their time and energy into one big event that knows how to attract a crowd: The Greek Week dance competition.
Since controversial House Bill 2 two weeks ago, Elon has responded with a campus statement, educational sessions and through Elon students posting fliers.
If anyone could find optimism about the world’s climate crisis, it would be Eileen Claussen. With international experience as the founding president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and Business Executive-in-Residence for Elon University’s Love School of Business, she is more than capable of finding hope.
April 7th is National Coffee Cake Day, and naturally as journalists we are always excited to celebrate a wacky holiday and eat something yummy.
Timbuktu. The proverbial ends to the earth. Capital of the Timbuktu Region, one of eight administrative regions in Mali.
It’s been an interesting couple weeks for Emory University. After chalk messages supporting Republican frontrunner Donald Trump appeared on various walkways of the Atlanta university, a number of conservative students responded with anti-Trump protests, believing the messages represented a legitimate threat to their safety and to the state of inclusivity at their campus.
Best known for their breakout role role in guacamole, avocados have taken the world by storm. With over 100 different varieties, there is a variety of avocado everyone is sure to love.
The annual Fraternity and Sorority Life Greek Week Dance was held in Alumni Gym on April 6, 2016.
Elon student James Tiernan is a member of Sweetbay, a professional band based in Georgia. Tiernan is balancing being a full-time student, and finding time to commit to his band. James Tiernan has been playing music since he was eight, but now he balances being a student, with being the bassist of Sweetbay. All the band mates are from just outside of Atlanta and had an unexpected first performance at a charity event. "We just got on stage and he called out songs and we played them but we vibe so well together that you know we were like we need to keep playing together," Tiernan said. Tiernan has dedicated his life to music, and can play over five instruments, including the violin bass and guitar.
For North Carolina lawmakers, the goal for this upcoming year is simple: silence whistleblowers and stifle cries of injustice.
Poetry and journalism. Not two topics often linked together, but Jeffrey Brown, co-anchor and senior correspondent for the PBS nightly news program "NewsHour," incorporated the two when talking to an audience in Whitley Auditorium Tuesday evening. The speech, "Politics and Poetry: One Reporter's Notebook," was part of the 11th annual James P.
When looking just at the statistics, the Burlington Pet Adoption Center is doing better than ever. Animal intake was reduced by 14 percent from 2014 to 2015, and euthanasia was reduced by 48 percent, according to Burlington Animal Services reports.
PBS NewHour Co-anchor and Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown shed light on his experiences in the television industry Tuesday night in Whitley Auditorium for the 11th annual James P. Elder lecture at Elon University,
Six hundred students received notification of their abroad application status for global engagement during Winter Term this past week.
Prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, human rights violations in the host city were exposed by the media. Inspired by the media coverage, senior Michelle Alfini grew interested with the Olympics and its relationship with human rights issues.
As spring begins at Elon, so does the unavoidable spirit — and pressures — of philanthropy and giving.
The ability to travel to Mars in 39 days was a notion deemed unrealistic. Sibo Energy, 2001 alum Edgar Ugalde’s startup solar energy company, assisted NASA and Ad Astra Rocket Company in the development of a new type of engine.
