Archive for March 8, 2010

Elon Trustee Kerrii Brown Anderson '79 has declared The IGNITE Challenge "a big success." In a new video message, she thanks young alumni for answering her challenge to make gifts to Elon during February.

On March 6, Associate Professor of Physics Tony Crider gave an invited talk at the Triad Starfest. His presentation, "2012: Exploitation of the Maya Long Count," tackled urban legends perpetuated by assorted authors about the Classic Maya and the year 2012.

A short story by Ken Calhoun, assistant professor in the School of Communications, was selected by writer Amy Hempel to appear in "New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2010."

A news story in the Times-News of Burlington, N.C., reports that former Elon University baseball player Chase Austin could start his first full year in professional baseball with the Greensboro Grasshoppers.

In mid-February, Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled "The Border-Crossing Experience in Recent Mexican and Chicano Theater" at the annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies held in Baton Rouge, La.

Elon junior Taylor Trensch and alumnus Matt Shingledecker '08 have spent much of the past year headlining the national tour of the Broadway musical, "Spring Awakening." This weekend, the Trensch and Shingledecker will enjoy a homecoming of sorts, as the critically acclaimed tour makes a stop at the Durham Performing Arts Center this weekend.

A daily trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University's history runs through March 11 with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a prize from the Student Government Association.

A daily trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University's history begins March 5 with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a prize from the Student Government Association.

Internationally acclaimed evolutionary biologist and popular science author Neil Shubin will deliver a talk titled, “Finding Your Inner Fish” at 7:30 p.m., March 8, in McCrary Theatre. He is known best for the discovery of Tiktaalik roseae , an extinct transitional species that provides strong fossil evidence of the evolutionary connection between ancient lobe-finned fishes and true land animals.