Archive for May 23, 2011

Alexa Carlin, vice president of finance for the Elon student entrepreneurship club Student Entrepreneurial Enterprise Development (SEED) and a freshman entrepreneurship major, addressed an audience of more than 100 participants on Feb. 11 at the 3rd annual University Entrepreneurship Summit of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C.

What does it take to sell someone on your idea for a new product or service? A good pitch certainly helps - especially one you can give to a prospective investor in less than a minute, a skill that won Elon University junior Brian Serow top prize in a contest at the 2011 MIT Global Startup Workshop in Seoul, South Korea.

Running a lemonade stand can be the first step toward a business career, as hundreds of children will discover Saturday when they set up shop across Alamance County as part of the national ‘Lemonade Day’ project. For Tim Porter, however, Lemonade Day means so much more, and the Elon University senior believes what kids have already learned through his efforts will stay with them forever.

Rebecca Pope-Ruark, an assistant professor of English in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) concentration, co-wrote and published the article entitled "Let's Scrum: How Scrum Methodology Encourages Students to See Themselves as Collaborators" with three English majors in PWR - Michelle Eichel '10, Sarah Talbott '11, and Kasey Thornton '12.

Amanda Leigh Clark '11, a biochemistry major and Lumen Scholar from Skaneateles, N.Y., has received a $5,000 fellowship award from the Phi Kappa Phi national academic honor society to help fund her graduate studies at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

From the Gaston Gazette (5/20/11): A Gaston County health education worker caught sleeping on the job and an EMT accused of conducting an unauthorized medical procedure were fired last year, according to personnel records. An assistant principal tested positive for a controlled substance and was demoted and reassigned to another school.

From the Beaufort Observer (5/16/11): There's a fight going on in Chapel Hill and Raleigh that few people in Beaufort County, we suspect, are paying much attention to. But nonetheless it is extremely significant to every person in Beaufort County and will be even more significant to our children and grandchildren.