Archive for April 27, 2010

Elon trustee Frank R. Lyon ’71 and his wife, Natalie Lyon, of New Canaan, Conn., longtime supporters of the Elon Academy, have made a major gift for the creation of an endowed scholarship that will aid graduates of the college enrichment program for high school students in Alamance County.

Barry Bradberry, associate dean of admissions and financial planning, received the William Starling Award from SACAC, the Southern Association for College Admissions Counseling, at the group's April 19 meeting in Jacksonville, Fla. Five Elon staff members represented the university at the conference.

More than 50 African-American alumni of the past four decades gathered on campus April 23-24 for the African-American Alumni Summit hosted by Elon's Office of Alumni Relations. Attendees focused on how the more than 1,200 African-American alumni of Elon can partner with the university to engage in the life of the campus, particularly for African-American students.

Natalie Marrone, adjunct assistant professor of dance, conceived and directed an original Italian Earth Day event titled “Festa Della Terra” at the Barriskill Dance Theatre in Durham, N.C., on April 24.

Amid the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, Clayton Winkelvoss ’10 found a perfect topic for his Honors thesis: executive compensation on Wall Street. Did banks receiving funds from the Troubled Assets Relief Program offer their employees larger or smaller compensation packages in 2008 than they did in 2007, before the financial crisis? Winkelvoss' work is the first in a series of E-net profiles that showcase Elon undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.