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It’s a new area of research – “whole body vibration” – that exercise sports scientists are exploring. Can standing on a machine that sends rapid vibrations through a body make an athlete run faster or jump higher? James Burns ’10 wanted to find out. Burns' work is the second in a series of E-net profiles that showcase Elon undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.

A fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington and the Multiple Sclerosis Society caught the attention of local media over the weekend, with the Times-News in Burlington and WFMY News 2 in Greensboro covering the event organized by students in a Leisure and Sport Management course.

Four psychology majors presented their research April 17 at the 35th annual Carolinas Psychology Conference hosted by Meredith College.

Elon University juniors Josh Carswell and Amanda Fish, both music performance majors, have been selected to participate in the American Opera Singers Project this June.

In more than two decades covering professional baseball, ESPN senior analyst Buster Olney has seen some of the game's most poignant moments. He shared insights from his career and offered advice to future sports journalists on April 14 as Elon's Leisure and Sport Management Society Career Spotlight Speaker.

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.

A letter from two Elon students to U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, in which they urge the Massachusetts senator to support legislation that funds the development of nuclear energy technology, is a finalist in a contest that will be judged April 8 by prominent former lawmakers at a Project Pericles conference in New York City.

Two senior psychology majors presented their research March 27 at Wake Forest University during the 2010 Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the Southeast.

See what happened at Elon this winter through the eyes of university photographer Kim Walker. Events in the latest "Images of Elon" include Founders Day events honoring Dr. J. Earl Danieley and the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Lake Mary Nell.

Rebecca Smith, a sophomore journalism major and features editor of The Pendulum student newspaper, was one of nine students nationwide to be selected for a Scripps Howard Foundation 10-day journalism study trip to Japan in its annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.