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Eric Townsend

Assistant Vice President for Academic Communications

I joined the Office of University Communications at Elon University in August 2007 and today serve as assistant vice president for academic communications while directing communications for Elon University School of Law. In these roles, I coordinate a team of school-based public relations professionals to ensure… Read More

Articles by Eric Townsend

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DPT candidates attend Dec. 9 graduation

December 10, 2007

Thirty-three candidates in the university’s DPT program received their degrees on Dec. 9, 2007, in a ceremony featuring remarks from Elon President Leo M. Lambert and an address from Steven L. Wolf, a professor and director of research at Emory University’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Second vigil scheduled for missing alumnus

December 9, 2007

A candlelight service and moment of silence will take place on campus Dec. 9 as part of a national push to keep missing Elon alumnus Kyle Fleischmann in the forefront of public consciousness. The services take place one month to the day after Fleischmann vanished in Charlotte, N.C.

Football star elected to Walter Camp All-America Team

December 7, 2007

Sophomore wide receiver Terrell Hudgins became just the second Elon University football player – and first offensive Phoenix player – to ever be named to a Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America team when the 2007 squad was announced on Dec. 7, 2007.

Elon seniors publish children’s book for charity

December 3, 2007

Four students from a senior seminar class have written and self-published a children’s book titled “The Consequences.” Meredith Long, Kris Moody, Sara Pollock and Calley Grace, students in the School of Communications, worked on several drafts of the book over the fall semester.

Periclean Scholars host events on Africa through Dec. 1

December 2, 2007

Learn more about various African traditions and social issues after Thanksgiving break when two classes of Periclean Scholars host “Footprints of Africa,” a five-day series of events aimed at making Elon University students more informed global citizens.

Prominent AIDS activist to visit Dec. 1

November 30, 2007

After learning she contracted HIV in 2000 from her husband, Anita Isaacs, who visits campus on Dec. 1 for World AIDS Day, took aim at the stigma attached to the disease in her native country. The Namibian activist is now tackling violence against women, a theme she plans to explore in her first visit to Elon since 2004.