Eric Townsend

They come to the center from the streets, broken homes and jails where they served time with adults. Dozens of Filipino boys, victims of sexual abuse, seek refuge each year at the Stairway Foundation south of Manila – a place where sophomore Meagan Harrison last summer spent two months volunteering through Elon University’s Ward Family Learning in Action Award.

A fundraising effort by the Elon University men’s golf team and spearheaded by an MBA student debuts next month with “Eagles for Haiti,” a pledge drive that asks sponsors to donate money toward recovery efforts in the battered Caribbean nation for every eagle scored this season by male golfers in the Southern Conference.

Children’s book author Jane Belk Moncure is seeding an early childhood collection for the School of Education at Elon University with a substantial donation of her popular books for preschoolers, which will be housed in the Curriculum Resources Center to support a future degree program in early childhood education.

The "Business of NASCAR" business course raised $700 during Winter Term for the Victory Junction Gang Camp, which brings the course’s three-year total contribution to more than $1,200 for a nonprofit organization in North Carolina that serves children with chronic or serious medical conditions.

Belk Library celebrates its 10th anniversary this week with a series of events and prizes for visitors, including nightly refreshments through Thursday and a special College Coffee with birthday cake and other celebration materials.

Elon's Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society welcomed its 2010 inductees in a Feb. 7 afternoon ceremony in McKinnon Hall. Students are juniors or seniors in the top 35 percent of their class who have been in residence at least one semester, and who have exhibited outstanding leadership in more than one area of the university community.

The 2010 U.S. Census "Portrait of America" Road Tour stopped at Elon University on Tuesday as part of the largest civic outreach and awareness campaign in the bureau's history, with a specific focus on the hard-to-count demographics such as college students and economically disadvantaged Americans.

On the brink of collapse in 2008, two American icons – General Motors and Chrysler – turned to Uncle Sam for billions of dollars to stay in business. But as assistant professor Christina Benson finds in her latest research, by protecting domestic automakers to save U.S. jobs in the short run, Washington may have created bigger headaches for the American economy in the not-so-distant future.

Tom Mould, an associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the Feb. 6 edition of the Wall Street Journal for a remembrance story on Phillip Martin, a leader of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians who died earlier in the month.

Elon University sophomore Frank Stiefel had an opinion column published in the Feb. 7, 2010, Sunday edition of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.