Archive for April 27, 2020

Keep it concise and know your audience: N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Dietz’s writing advice in a virtual presentation to first-year Elon Law students was drawn from his experience as an appellate attorney and six years on the bench.

Led by the History and Geography Department, the written and recorded submissions of students, faculty and staff will be preserved for future historians and Elon's records.

When its production of the musical “Violet” was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cast and crew members from the Department of Performing Arts carried on with the show’s opening number in a newly released YouTube video.

This update on the work on the work of the Task Force on Fall 2020 was sent by President Emeritus Leo M. Lambert on April 27, 2020.

Episode three of Phoenix Flix is hosted by Assistant Professor of Cinema and Television Arts Max Negin.

Elon University’s Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellows program was selected for national recognition of its immersive course on the Civil Rights Movement.

A $100,000 gift from Sam Hunt IV and Krista Hunt supports the first phase of a bold project that will advance the university’s engineering and STEM programs. This gift is part of the Elon LEADS Campaign.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, fifteen undergraduate and seven graduate students in the School of Education were inducted virtually into Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education that promotes the highest ideals of the teaching profession, on April 23, 2020. 

Chris Richardson, associate professor of astrophysics at Elon, and a collaborator at UNC-Chapel Hill will receive the equivalent of $6,000 in computational resources from a National Science Foundation-funded program.

A fifth grade teacher at T.A. Brown Elementary School in Austin, Texas, Zayas reflects on the lessons learned and steps to take as we reimagine education during a crisis.