Eric Townsend

A 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 to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.

It was, to be sure, a straightforward audience question during a previous talk: “Are you a Christian?” But as Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. explained March 9 during a visit to Elon, with the way some churches and its members have invoked God’s name “like a Louisville slugger,” his answer is anything but simple.

With two weeks down in the 2009 POWERless Energy Competition, Chandler and Danieley C lead the rest of campus in their respective divisions in a contest to measure which building can most reduce its electricity usage.

Isabella Cannon ’24, an immigrant from Scotland who would travel the world before her election as the first female mayor of North Carolina's capital city, will be recognized March 10 as part of Elon University’s annual Founders Day celebrations to commemorate the lives of administrators, faculty and trustees who impacted the growth of the institution.

Entrepreneurial thinking and innovation will be critical strategic advantages to the American economy as the global economy increases competitive issues across industries. More and more companies and organizations are looking to hire students with this thought process.

A 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 to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.

More than a third of all students car pool at least once a week. The average employee makes a 25-mile roundtrip commute. And the largest contributing factor to greenhouse gas emissions from Elon University is electricity use, according to the first ever Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, a survey to be conducted each year as the university works toward its goal of carbon neutrality.

Steve DeLoach, a professor and chair of the Department of Economics, spoke with News 14 Carolina on March 6 about the prospect of the U.S. government nationalizing some of the country's largest financial institutions.

Elon University music majors Jacob Danieley and Kaitlyn Fay have been named finalists in the 12th Annual John Lennon Scholarship Songwriting Program, a national contest established in 1997 by Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, and the BMI Foundation.