Eric Townsend

Thirty-five faculty and community agencies participated Nov. 5 in The Kernodle Center for Service Learning’s first Fall Campus-Community Networking lunch on campus.

It’s a stereotype that persists to this day: Acclaimed African-American choral conductors are usually regarded for only having expertise in the area of gospel music and spirituals. Yet premier conductors, regardless of race, share so much more in common. Gerald Knight, an assistant professor of music, examines those traits in his first book, Two African American Choral Conductors: Eroding Misconceptions Through Excellence.

The Elon University Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Wake Forest University Angell Center for Entrepreneurship co-hosted the 2nd annual University Entrepreneurship Summit of North Carolina in the Winston-Salem, N.C. on November 4.

Charlie Remy ’07, a double major in Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies while at Elon, will be a guest on a live Boston radio call-in program Sunday night when he talks about his experience with Asperger’s syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.

Stephen A. Futrell, an associate professor of music, presented Nov. 7 at the North Carolina Music Educators Association In-Service Conference.

Entrepreneurship students participated Oct. 29 in The Indus Entrepreneurs of Carolina’s (TiE) networking event at the Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. The students networked with approximately 60 high growth and technology entrepreneurs as part of their Entrepreneurship Skills course taught by Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Four people who make a difference in the lives of others were honored Monday by Elon University in the 16th annual “Hometown Heroes” awards ceremony on campus. Freshmen class officers selected the honorees for “making a positive difference by touching lives and strengthening their home communities” in a program sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life.

Elon University professors Clyde Ellis and Yoram Lubling have been selected as Senior Faculty Research Fellows for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 academic years. A recommendation from the Presidential Task Force on Scholarship, the competitive program was estabalished to support senior faculty in their ongoing scholarly work.

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked Elon among the nation’s top 50 best values in private higher education and the #2 university in total costs, a distinction published in the magazine’s December edition. The 2009-10 ranking is the fourth consecutive top-50 placement of Elon by Kiplinger’s.