Articles by Eric Townsend
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Laura Roselle to deliver Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture – April 19
April 20, 2010
Laura Roselle, one of Elon University’s most prolific scholars, will discuss the effects of a new media environment in the 21st century on Monday night during the annual Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture, which each year showcases the work of a faculty researcher whose work has made a lasting impact to her field of study.
Mat Gendle elected to National Leadership Position for the Council of Undergraduate Research
April 19, 2010
Mathew Gendle, an associate professor of psychology, has been elected to serve a three-year term as a Councilor in the Psychology Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
Mat Gendle and Jeffrey Pugh present at International Consciousness Conference
April 19, 2010
Mathew Gendle, an associate professor of psychology, and Jeffrey Pugh, the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies, gave a poster presentation April 14 at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Ariz
Lindner Hall, Elon’s “greenest” building, dedicated on April 16
April 19, 2010
Elon University leaders dedicated Martha S. and Carl H. Lindner III Hall on April 16, 2010, in an afternoon ceremony attended by a large crowd of faculty, staff, students, administrators and members of the board of trustees on campus for their spring meeting.
Elon to dedicate Lindner Hall – TODAY at 4 p.m.
April 16, 2010
Elon University leaders will dedicate Martha S. and Carl H. Lindner III Hall on Friday in an afternoon ceremony that welcomes back to campus the donors whose gift helped make the building possible. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the 4 p.m. dedication on the north patio facing the Academic Village.
Special Olympics holds spring games on Elon campus
April 16, 2010
Elon University hosted Special Olympics Alamance County on Friday as athletes from surrounding communities visited campus for the nonprofit’s annual spring games. Several university students volunteered for the program, which included appearances by Elon Phoenix football players, cheerleaders and the Phoenix mascot.
Andy Angyal gives public talk on ‘Green Design’
April 15, 2010
English professor Andy Angyal gave an April 13 talk on "Green Design and the Quest for Sustainability" sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council at West Regional Library in Cary, N.C.
BET’s Jeff Johnson speaks on diversity and leadership
April 14, 2010
“Diversity” has become a buzzword on college campuses that misses a larger point, said activist and BET personality Jeff Johnson, who visited campus Saturday for Elon University’s inaugural Diversity Leadership Conference. More should be done to foster greater community, he said, and responsibility for that rests with student leaders.
Elon students appear in USA TODAY
April 14, 2010
USA TODAY showcased three Elon University students on April 13 in photographs that accompanied a special section, “Sharing in the USA,” which reported on American volunteerism in the wake of several natural disasters.
Phi Beta Kappa Society installs chapter at Elon University
April 13, 2010
The nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society installed its newest chapter Tuesday during Elon University’s Convocation for Honors, where faculty and staff members of Phi Beta Kappa were charged with upholding the society’s values by committing themselves to intellectual freedom, the pursuit of knowledge and the ideal of excellence in scholarship in the liberal arts and sciences.