Archive for February 24, 2010

Most experts surveyed in a new Elon University/Pew Internet study say the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence. The survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders reveals fascinating new perspectives on the way the Internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways that information is being shared and rendered.

The Elon University chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has been selected as an Outstanding SPS Chapter for the 2008-09 academic year.

Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Elon Law Review focuses on the application of the death penalty in North Carolina and nationally. The edition is now available online and for subscription.

On Feb. 23, Elon University President Leo M. Lambert and Scott Saylor, president of the North Carolina Railroad Company, toured the construction site of a new pedestrian tunnel under the railroad tracks on campus. The underpass is expected to open in late April.

United States Senator Kay Hagan will deliver Elon University School of Law's 2010 Commencement address, scheduled for Sunday, May 23, at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.

Students in the business communications class led by Betsy Stevens, associate professor of business administration, are using the new Elon BioBus route in Burlington to deliver donated food to Allied Churches of Alamance County, a facility that offers an Emergency Night Shelter, Good Shepherd Community Kitchen, and Christian Assistance Network.