Articles by Eric Townsend

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Campus vigil offers prayers for Baltimore

May 6, 2015

Elon University students, faculty and staff gathered Tuesday in the Numen Lumen Pavilion to reflect on the recent death of a Maryland man in police custody, ensuing national protests and actions people can take to address social issues and inequalities.

‘Don’t Trash It!’ donation campaign runs May 13-27

May 6, 2015

Wondering what to do with that perfectly good item you don’t want to pack? Donation Stations are set up throughout campus May 13-27 to collect donations which go to local charities and assist those in need in Alamance County. 

Elon senior & alumnus receive Princeton in Asia fellowships

May 5, 2015

Laura Sturdivant '15 and Alexander Ward '14 travel next fall to Myanmar and the Philippines, respectively, with support of a program aimed at promoting goodwill and the exchange of ideas between cultures of the East and West.

5K fundraiser kicks off arts & science festival

May 2, 2015

Elon University's second annual celebration of the arts & sciences brought hundreds of people to campus Saturday for hands-on educational activities and the inaugural "5K Run/Walk for H.O.P.E." to benefit a student-run charity that fights hunger in Alamance County.

Elon senior's nonprofit earns her $15,000 award

May 2, 2015

Yasmine Arrington, a strategic communications and history double major from Washington, D.C., received a Samuel Huntington Public Service Award this spring to grow a nonprofit she founded to help the children of incarcerated parents pay for college.