Megan Walsh

Special Events Coordinator

Megan Walsh ’28 is a Communications Fellow studying journalism and communication design with a minor in dance. This is her second semester serving as Elon News Network’s special events coordinator, and she is excited to return to the position. While she enjoys reporting on a variety of topics, arts reporting is her favorite. Outside of Elon News Network, Walsh serves as the social media manager for Elon NewWorks.

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Recent Articles

NEWS 3/12/26 12:05pm

Elon University’s new professor title begins following promotions

By Megan Walsh

With this year’s tenure and promotions announcement came a title shift for Elon professors formerly known as lecturers, now called teaching professors. The title change provides these professors a chance to have the more upward mobility of multiple promotion levels that tenured professors have.

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NEWS 2/16/26 1:12pm

Alamance County Commissioner dies

By Megan Walsh

Alamance County Commissioner and Elon University alum John Paisley Jr. ’70, R, has died. Paisley served on the commission consecutively since 2020 and previously served in 2014.

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LIFESTYLE 2/12/26 4:15pm

Elon University student musicians share their passions across campus, beyond

By Megan Walsh

For Elon students, Nailah Ware and Xie Atkinson, a love for music began during childhood. Now, both share their music, passion and lived experiences on and off campus. The two artists seek opportunities on and off campus, including in the music production and recording arts department, in on campus clubs such as Limitless and Limelight Records, performing in off-campus shows and releasing music to streaming platforms. 

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LIFESTYLE 1/5/26 3:32pm

Fitting Futures: Sewing university, community engagement at Elon University

By Megan Walsh

From her first trip off campus with the Elon College Fellows Program, senior Brooke Gustafson, a theatrical design and technology, and arts administration double major knew she wanted to use her fellows research project to engage the university with the local community. “I realized then and there that there was a large bubble around Elon University that wasn't connecting with the community,” Gustafson said. That led Gustafson to create her research project, Fitting Futures, which aims to provide free clothing alterations to the local community and establish a model for other universities to replicate the program. 

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LIFESTYLE 11/21/25 4:23pm

Festival of Lights and Luminaries illuminates Elon year after year

By Megan Walsh

An event with roots as a traditional tree lighting in front of the Alamance Building, the current Festival of Lights and Luminaries celebration continues to light up campus. This year’s festival will be held Dec. 2 across the Historic Neighborhood and the Academic Pavilion. “A certain number of people couldn’t gather in the same place, so having everyone gathered in front of Alamance for that lighting simply was impossible,” Director of Multifaith Programming and Engagement Hillary Zaken said. “As it turns out, this is a much better way to celebrate the campus that we are and are becoming.”

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LIFESTYLE 11/17/25 2:28pm

Community Closet ofrece a los residentes de Burlington ropa profesional gratuita

By Megan Walsh

La Biblioteca May Memorial de Burlington se llenó de percheros con ropa nueva o en buen estado donada para que los miembros de la comunidad la tomaran gratuitamente durante el evento "Armario Comunitario" de la Biblioteca Pública de Alamance. El evento, celebrado el 8 de noviembre, ofreció vestimenta profesional a quienes la necesitaban para cualquier necesidad profesional o transición laboral. Según la bibliotecaria y coordinadora del programa, Christina Rhone, este evento sirve como clausura del programa anual "Brújula Profesional" de la biblioteca, diseñado para ayudar a las personas a encontrar nuevos empleos o prepararse para incorporarse al mundo laboral.

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NEWS 11/11/25 9:08pm

Q&A: Retired Lieutenant General shares insights into the military world, his years of service

By Megan Walsh

As part of Veteran’s Day programming Nov. 11, Elon University hosted retired Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley, Jr. for the second annual Carol Ann Walker International Lectureship as a part of this year’s speaker series. Ashley spent his career as an intelligence officer for the United States Army and served in the highest level of United States national security. His service includes tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ashley’s final assignment was as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency where he directly reported to the secretary of defense and the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security. 

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LIFESTYLE 11/8/25 9:25pm

Elon’s fall dance concert explores duality of ‘Echoes and Currents’

By Megan Walsh

Body image, feminism, a battle of push and pull, invisible stories and the interconnection of a dancer and the audience are all themes explored in Elon University’s fall dance concert titled “Echoes and Currents.” Directed by performing arts professors Elijah Motley and Jen Guy Metcalf, the show will feature works from four facility members and four works from students. “Echoes and Currents” will run Nov. 14 to 16 in Roberts Studio Theatre located in Scott Studios. 

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LIFESTYLE 11/8/25 6:44pm

Community Closet provides Burlington residents with free professional attire

By Megan Walsh

Burlington’s May Memorial Library was filled with racks of new or gently used clothes donated for community members to take for free during the Alamance Public Library’s Community Closet event. The event held Nov. 8 offered professional attire for community members in need of clothing for any professional need or transition. According to librarian and program coordinator Christina Rhone, this event serves as the closing for the library's annual Career Compass program, geared to help people transition into new jobs or prepare to enter the workforce. 

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LIFESTYLE 10/24/25 7:04am

Elon Truitt Center holds Halloween event, creates space for Paganism on campus

By Megan Walsh

Spell bag making, pumpkin painting and tarot card readings were  some of the offerings students engaged in during The Veil is Thin: Spells, Symbols and Stories event. The event was held by Elon’s Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. Director of Multifaith Programming and Engagement, Hillary Zaken, said the event marked the second event in the center’s effort to bring more Pagan-centered events to campus. “What Paganism is to me is just having this deep reverence and respect for life, but also the way that you live your life, and living it intentionally,” sophomore Finn Hughes said.

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NEWS 10/11/25 2:53pm

Alumni share their Elon stories at the Voices of Elon Oral History Booths

By Megan Walsh

For the first time, Elon University alumni had the chance to share a little bit of their experience with the school at the Voices of Elon Oral History Booths. The booths were hosted by the Committee on Elon History and Memory in conjunction with Belk Library and The Center for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Education. Alumni were given a chance to participate in filmed 10-to 15-minute interviews where they were asked two questions: “What made you choose Elon?” and “What do you hope students today, or 50 years from now, understand about your experience at Elon?”

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NEWS 10/4/25 12:32pm

‘Peace, Love and Unity’: The Wailers spread their mission of hope to Burlington

By Megan Walsh

“Peace, love and unity” is the mission statement behind The Wailers, the former band of reggae star Bob Marley, now focused on spreading hope to the younger generations. The Wailers performed in downtown Burlington. For band leader Aston Barrett Jr., carrying on The Wailers’ message is about more than just encouraging the people of the world, but also about carrying on the legacy of his family. "If there's anything going on in the world that you need as a revolutionary song that could unite the people and keep their minds straight, if you see them going like this, we already wrote those songs so you could sing those songs,” Barrett said.

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NEWS 9/29/25 3:48pm

Popular reggae band to perform in Downtown Burlington

By Megan Walsh

The Wailers, the former band of Bob Marley, will fill downtown Burlington with music Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Burlington Food Hall. “I hope that from this, it opens the door not only for the food hall, but for downtown as a whole to maybe become more involved,” Wellsley Robinson, owner of the Burlington Food Hall, said. “North Carolina is growing so fast. I mean, Elon's growing, everybody's growing right in our state, and so maybe it would give us the opportunity to become more and more involved in things that are happening statewide, because there's a lot going on.”

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NEWS 9/29/25 3:48pm

Banda de reggae The Wailers se presentará en el centro de Burlington

By Megan Walsh

Tras un cambio inesperado de lugar, The Wailers, la legendaria banda que acompañó a Bob Marley, llenará de música el centro de Burlington el viernes 3 deoctubre a las 7 p.m. frente al Burlington Food Hall. Wellsley Robinson, dueña del Burlington Food Hall, contó que hace alrededor de un mes le propusieron organizar el evento, después de que la agrupación supiera que el lugar original en Greensboro seguiría en construcción. Al enterarse de esa situación, The Wailers se acercaron a Robinson para llevar el espectáculo a Front Street, justo frente al food hall. Tras coordinar con la ciudad, Robinson y sus socios descubrieron que la zona resultaba ideal para conciertos de esta magnitud.

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NEWS 9/26/25 9:51pm

La atleta olímpica Katie Ledecky comparte su historia y consejos durante la Convocatoria de Otoño de Elon

By Megan Walsh

Desde su debut olímpico a los 15 años hasta alcanzar la mayor cantidad de medallas de oro entre las nadadoras del mundo, Katie Ledecky compartió su historia y sabiduría con el público de la Universidad de Elon durante la Convocatoria de Otoño el 26 de septiembre. "Sé que habrá días buenos y días malos, ya sea en el entrenamiento, las carreras o cualquier otra cosa", declaró Ledecky en una entrevista con Elon News Network. "Puede que haya pequeños obstáculos en el camino, pero creo que confiar en el proceso, confiar en mis entrenadores y, a veces, confiar en mí misma, han sido los aspectos más importantes".

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NEWS 9/26/25 9:50pm

Olympian Katie Ledecky shares her story, advice during Elon’s Fall Convocation

By Megan Walsh

From making her Olympic debut at age 15 to holding the most gold medals of a female swimmer in the world, Katie Ledecky shared her story and wisdom with audiences at Elon University during Fall Convocation on Sept. 26. “I know that there are going to be good days and they're going to be bad days, whether that's with training or racing or just anything,” Ledecky said in an interview with Elon News Network. “There could be little roadblocks along the way, but I think trusting the process, trusting my coaches, trusting myself at times, I think those have been the biggest things.”

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NEWS 9/19/25 3:44pm

Elon University common reading author shares her experiences as a first-generation Latina with community

By Megan Walsh

Author of Elon University’s 2025 common reading, “First Gen,” Alejandra Campoverdi visited campus and spoke Sept. 18 as part of this year’s Speaker Series. “My biggest hope for ‘First Gen’ when I was writing it was that it would be something that could be used as a resource, and something that would make people feel less alone and more seen,” Campoverdi said in an interview with Elon News Network. “To know that it will reach, and has reached now, such a wide variety of young people of different experiences is everything I would have hoped for.”

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LIFESTYLE 9/19/25 11:16am

Elon University’s fall play explores the concept of truth

By Emma Perman and Megan Walsh

Audiences will grapple with the concept of truth and reality in Elon University’s fall play “Describe the Night.” “Describe the Night,” written by Rajiv Joseph, takes place across different periods of time, such as the 1920s Soviet Union and Russia in the 2010s. The show will run with evening shows at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3, 4, 6 and 7 and afternoon shows at 2:00 p.m. Oct. 4 and 5 in Roberts Studio Theatre in Scott Studios. Ticket reservations will be available on the Elon Performing Arts website on Sept. 26.  

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NEWS 8/21/25 8:48pm

Elon University’s New Student Programs prepares to welcome class of 2029

By Megan Walsh

For the Elon University class of 2029, preparing to start college began during the summer. For New Student Programs, preparations began back in the fall of 2024. According to Director of New Student Programs Emily Krechel, preparing for orientation has involved efforts from student leaders, the staff of Elon's New Student Programs office and a variety of campus and local partners."We want students to get to know other people and have these meaningful relationships that they walk away from having learned or grown or dug deeper or developed more authentic connections with people," Krechel said.

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NEWS 8/21/25 6:24pm

Elon University welcomes new international students

By Megan Walsh

Coming from all across the globe, Elon University international students began their journey on campus during international move-in and orientation Aug. 20 and 21. Isabel Guerrero Domecq, an international student from Spain, plans to study business. She said she chose Elon for its large international student population. “I knew that there was such a good community, also lots of international students,” Guerrero Domecq said. “I am looking forward to meet new people from different countries.” International students will join the class of 2029 and transfer students in the new student orientation starting Aug. 22.

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