Archive for April 27, 2011

The Pendulum Online, the Web companion to The Pendulum student newspaper, was named a 2011 finalist in the Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker competition April 27. The Pacemaker is the highest honor ACP gives its members.

The Pendulum, Elon's award-winning daily news gathering organization, will have several executive staff positions open starting in the fall semester, and applications are due TODAY.

Kristen Klug '10, a History major and German Studies minor, has been accepted to the master's program in European Studies at the Hochschule Bremen in Germany.

Brant Touchette, professor of biology and environmental studies, served as a National Panelist for the College Board in Newtown, Pa.

Work by Elon University students and professors took center stage Wednesday in the opening hours of SURF 2011 with a new morning format for the annual event that recognizes faculty and undergraduate research. Twenty-two professors took part in third annual "Celebration of Faculty Scholarship" in McKinnon Hall, where they shared work in a poster presentation side-by-side with students who had been accepted to display findings of their own endeavors.

Leary Davis, founding dean and professor of law emeritus at Elon Law, delivered a presentation titled, "Competence as Situationally Appropriate Conduct: An Overarching Concept for Lawyering, Leadership and Professionalism," at the 2011 Santa Clara Law Leadership Education Roundtable.

Published by the Bankruptcy Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), through the Section's online "Disclosure Statement" newsletter, the March 2011 article by Kay and J. Marshall Shelton, an attorney with Ivey, McClellan Gatton and Talcott, provides case summaries of nine recent court decisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.