Eric Townsend

Elon University and the Times-News newspaper are co-sponsoring three events this year in which students, professors and residents of Alamance County will share diverse viewpoints on current events.

The visit is sponsored by the School of Communications in coordination with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

The entry deadline is Dec. 13, 2013, for a student competition focused on human rights that will award cash prizes totaling $3,600. Categories include: research papers, journalism, electronic media, creative writing, photos, and world languages

The Moseley Center lot - which will close the night of Friday, Oct. 11 -  will be reconfigured over Fall Break as work begins on the Inman Admissions Welcome Center. Changes will impact students, faculty, staff and visitors who bring their vehicles to Elon University.

Steve “The Woz” Wozniak encouraged members of the Elon University community on Thursday to “build in an element of fun” into everything they do and that “sometimes you make your best decisions when you’re forced to.”

Public policy debates on addressing climate change are one thing, but in a newspaper guest column, Associate Professor Dave Gammon says it's time to move past disagreements about the scientific data proving that humans are largely the cause.

“Numen Lumen" will be performed Oct. 6, 2013, by Duke University's Ciompi Quartet, and Tim Olsen from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, as part of the Mary Duke Biddle Chamber Recital Series. The concert is free and open to the public.

In a Thursday afternoon forum, Steve Wozniak fielded questions from an Elon University community fascinated by his views on technology, Steve Jobs and the way the personal computer he invented four decades ago revolutionized the world.

An Oct. 5 event sponsored by ELONTHON and Campus Recreation benefitted Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center via the Children's Miracle Network.