Eric Townsend

"Innovations in Sustainable Furnishings: The Road Ahead" is the theme of a program co-sponsored by the university and the Sustainable Furnishings Council. The full forum runs Sept. 19-21.

The 13 teachers from Asia and South America have started their studies to earn teacher licensure, which will ultimately lead them to apply to the university's Master of Education program.

With relatives in Syria and steeped in its history, Assistant Professor Haya Ajjan writes in a newspaper guest column about the need for U.S. military involvement to end a brutal civil war while putting a stop to the use of chemical weapons in her home country.

Elon University faculty experts, joined by a colleague from UNC Chapel Hill, explored on Sept. 11 the complexities of resolving a civil war in Syria that has escalated with the use of chemical weapons.

The author of "Little Princes" visits Elon University for a 7:30 p.m. talk about his New York Times bestselling book and his nonprofit's efforts to reunite children separated from their families by human traffickers during Nepal's civil war.

This fall's POWERless campus contest featuring "COMPETE to CONSERVE" marks the 10th competition designed to promote and reward energy conservation in residential facilities. Competition begins Sept. 17.

Harvard graduate Chris Nowinski made a name for himself in professional wresting, but when a head injury ended his career, he wrote a book and started a nonprofit with the mission of solving the sports concussion crisis.

The chair of the Department of Psychology will assume her new role at the university starting in January 2014.

Kirstin Ringelberg, Kathy Matera and David Crowe in Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, last month received Faculty Excellence Awards for the 2012-2013 academic year.

New students affirmed their commitment on Thursday morning to the virtues of honesty, integrity, responsibility and respect in the university’s eighth annual Call to Honor program.