“I’m a creative writer, so I took Cassie’s [Kircher’s] non-fiction essay class and wrote essays all semester, and in my creative writing classes I also continued to write non-fiction,” senior Lauryl Fischer said.
There are very few places that an Elon student can go to in Burlington without bumping into a classmate or someone they know while they are out to eat or get a drink.
The Elon University athletic department formally announced its partnership with Under Armour Wednesday morning. The agreement makes the Baltimore-based apparel company the official outfitter of Elon's athletic teams, coaches and staff.
Four cases of sexual offenses were reported in the Elon University Annual Security Report for 2014.
“It is taboo for men to talk together, to share their feelings and emotions,” Noah Rossen, Elon sophomore said, “there is no safe place for that in society or at Elon.” Rossen and his roommate this year, Elon Sophomore Scott Powell have had countless discussions since they moved in together about the role society expects men to take on and why it is okay if they don’t. “We created a Healthy Masculinity group.
On April 28th, The Department of Performing Arts will bring the stories of America’s unsung heroes to the stage with the Tony nominated musical, Working. Working, originally staged in 1974 is based on a book written by Studs Terkel, which he wrote after Terkel conducted interviews with hundreds of working men and women across the United States about their jobs and why they did them. The show has undergone many revisions, most recently in 2011 with the addition of two songs by 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda writer of both Hamilton and In the Heights. Elon will be performing the most recent revision including Miranda’s additions. The show also features music by James Taylor, Craig Carnelia and many other songwriters and composers. The 20 actors all had to audition for the show before gaining access into the course where they did most of their rehearsing up until Grand Night on April 3rd, when they begun evening rehearsals as well as weekends. “With this show, because of the nature of the beast—if you will—we began individual monologue work, sometimes we start staging big company numbers, and we did do some of that, we staged the opening and middle section, but we started working a lot on the acting, because there are a as many monologues in the show as there are songs,” said director Lynne Kurdzeil-Formato.
The performing arts center at Elon University is home to the theater, music and dance programs. Ballet studios, practice rooms and the stages are always buzzing with activity and sound.
When the year 2000 came around, Elon University officials drew up a plan for how they thought the university should focus on growing for the next 10 years.
It’s not hard to recognize the causes of stress and anxiety. Mounting academic and professional pressures reinforced by the expectations of parents can wear down the psyche.
Elon University’s Global Education Center (GEC) announced the winners of its annual photo contest Monday, featuring student-submittedphotos of their Study Abroad or Study USA programs. Winners were selected from three different categories and won a variety of prizes.
Hundreds of Elon University students gathered to increase cancer awareness in the annual Colleges Against Cancer Relay for Life 12-hour fundraiser April 23-24. Despite having to be moved inside because of rain, the event shattered previous fundraising records with a total of $90,388.61.
Party for the Planet, an Eco-Reps-coordinated event, was an installment of the Elon Earth Week celebration. Aligned with the goals of prior events, the April 22 Party for the Planet promoted eco-friendly living, celebrated the beauties of the natural world and inspired attendees to strive for a healthier planet.
International & Global Studies | Communications (Session 1 Civil Rights Focus) | Business | Communications (Session 2) | PERCS | Environmental Studies Elon University hosted its annual SURF Day 2016 to showcase recent student research. Pendulum news reporters Emmanuel Morgan, Mackenzie Dunn, Madison Demmitt, Micah Spoerndle and Michael Somerby reported on a variety of SURF Day sessions.
Roughly 50 students and faculty attended todays Environmental Science Oral Presentation Session held in the Moseley Centers McKinnon E conference room. One of many sessions held under the Student Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) program, the event was moderated by senior Cassidy Levy, and was sponsored by Dr. Amanda Chunco, assistant professor of environmental studies.
Roughly 40 faculty and students gathered in Moseley 215 Tuesday, for a Spring Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) symposium presented by the Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies. Titled, “Ethnography across Disciplines: Understanding Global and Local Communities,” the student-run symposium sought to contextualize various cultural identities through the research of Elon undergraduate students. Students presented four individual research projects, each dissecting the cultural identities of local, but vastly different communities.
Five students presented their tedious academic investigations related to the field of communications and journalism April 26 at Lakeside 212 as part of Elon University’s annual Student Undergraduate Research Forum.
In McKinnon F during the second Session of SURF presentations, five students discussed their research having to do with the subject of business.
Lakeside 212- Communications All Research presented in this session had a theme of Civil Rights.
Session I- Global Commons Media Room 103 International & Global Studies/ Political Science & Policy Studies Mission Accomplished?
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