Dan Anderson

David H. Cooper, associate dean for undergraduate programs and school partnerships in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, has been named dean of the School of Education at Elon University.

Nancy Knowlton, a renowned expert on coral reefs, visits Elon University this month as the 2008-2009 Voices of Discovery series continues with a talk on the impact of climate change on the planet's reef systems. Knowlton's lecture on Feb. 18 is free and open to the public starting at 7:30 p.m. in McCrary Theatre.

Faculty and staff make a difference at Elon through their talent and time on the job as well as by giving to the Faculty/Staff Campaign. It’s a matter of Elon people helping Elon people. Every day this week, Feb. 9-13, you will see a new E-Net profile of faculty and staff who are donors to the university. Check in daily to see how Elon’s employees are giving back!

Michael Skube, associate professor of communications, wrote a retrospective on Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike for the Feb. 8 edition of the News & Observer.

Cory Booker, the 39-year-old Mayor of Newark, N.J., who is seen as a rising political star, told Elon Law students Feb. 3 that they are experiencing a “watershed time in American life.” Delivering the law school’s Bryan Leadership Lecture, Booker said he has great hope in the leaders emerging from the millennial generation.