Articles by Eric Townsend
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Week #3 results for RecycleMania 2011
March 11, 2011
Elon University has collected more than 23,000 pounds of material in the first three weeks of the national RecycleMania 2011 contest and is currently in 10th place in North Carolina for the total amount saved from landfills.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 11
March 11, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history is now in its final day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 10
March 11, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history is now in its fourth day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
College Coffee tree planting marks Founders Day 2011
March 10, 2011
The university community on Tuesday honored one of Elon’s pivotal leaders from its early years during a special College Coffee tree planting to mark Founders Day 2011. Family of the late Thomas E. Powell Jr. ’19, founder of Carolina Biological Supply Company, attended the ceremony in front of Lindner Hall.
Professor’s new book adds “missing chapter” to John Dewey’s philosophy
March 10, 2011
By his own admission, the eminent American philosopher John Dewey never adequately articulated a theory of personality. Six decades after Dewey's death, Elon University professor Yoram Lubling offers that missing chapter by tracing the philosopher's developing understanding of personhood in a new book titled The Person Vanishes: John Dewey’s Philosophy of Experience and the Self.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 9
March 10, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history is now in its third day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
Elizabeth Kolbert, “Feast or Famine: Climate Change and the Future of Food” – March 10
March 9, 2011
Elizabeth Kolbert, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change and The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, visits Elon University on March 10 for an evening lecture sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum.
Elon University in the News – Late Winter 2011
March 9, 2011
Elon University professors, students and alumni continue to make news this winter through their research and activities. Notable in February was media coverage of the Elon University Poll, broadcast news appearances by faculty who discussed Super Bowl ads and the Watson computer on Jeopardy!, and reports on the opening of Campus Kitchen at Elon University.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 8
March 9, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of Elon University’s history is now in its second day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
Clifton Johnson presents at ACUI annual conference
March 8, 2011
Clifton Johnson, assistant director of campus center operations, made a presentation on March 1 in Chicago at the Association of College Unions International annual conference.