Dan Anderson

Michael Skube, associate professor of communications, wrote a review of "The Future of Liberalism" by political scientist Alan Wolfe for the April 5 edition of the Raleigh News and Observer.

Communications majors Kim Ludlam and Colleen Callahan of the class of 2009 have created a video entry for the Twix Funniest Student Contest.

Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Hanna Holborn Gray, who served as president of the University Chicago and as provost and acting president at Yale University, will give the James P. Elder Lecture at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 16 in Whitley Auditorium. Gray's talk is titled "Education and Utopia."

Connie Renda, a 2003 music theatre alumna, was among six finalists in the "Great American Duet Sing-Off" competition sponsored by Prairie Home Companion, a nationally syndicated public radio program. Renda and her duet partner Elizabeth Brown were featured in a live broadcast April 11.

Chelsea Detrick, a 2007 Elon graduate, died April 9 after a long battle with an aggressive form of cancer. She had been living in the Seattle, Wash., area and was being cared for by her father, Glenn Detrick, who has taught classes in Elon's Love School of Business.

President Leo M. Lambert and Bennett College for Women President Julianne Malveaux teamed up for an engaging discussion of issues facing higher education. The event, held April 8 in the Koury Business Center, inaugurated a Fireside Chat series sponsored by the presidents’ offices along with African/African-American studies, Phi Beta Kappa faculty and staff, and women’s and gender studies.

CNN journalist Anderson Cooper spent much of his visit to Elon meeting with students in the School of Communications, discussing the practices and ethics of journalism and the rapidly evolving technologies that are changing the way people access and use information.

Anderson Cooper, CNN news anchor and host of “Anderson Cooper 360°” will appear at Elon University on April 7, 2009, conducting a question-and-answer discussion with students at 2 p.m. and delivering a special lecture at 4 p.m. in Koury Center’s Alumni Gym. Tickets for the lecture are sold out, however the Box Office is distributing 400 tickets for closed circuit TV viewing in McCrary Theatre.

Chemistry professor Eugene Gooch died Friday evening, April 3, in a traffic accident near campus. Read this note for a message from President Leo M. Lambert and details about memorial service arrangements.

Danny Glassmann, assistant director of residence life and the multicultural center, and Rebecca McQueen, assistant director of residence life, presented at the Unity Conference at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on April 4.