Center for Environmental Studies

The home designed and built by students, one of six constructed in the EcoVillage at Loy Farm’s first phase, involved more than 60 students over the course of an academic year and yielded lessons students will carry into their futures.

With a new academic year comes new people, new buildings and new opportunities. Here’s a look at some of the exciting new additions to the Elon University campus for the 2024-25 academic year.

Elon is undertaking a range of construction projects this summer that will enhance the student experience and upgrade academic spaces.

Twelve sustainably designed homes will become the Loy Farm Living-Learning Community, a model of green architecture where students thrive by living harmoniously with nature. The LLC will open in fall 2024 with all 12 homes completed by fall 2025.

Hassol, an award-winning climate change communicator, spoke on Tuesday, April 19 to kick off a series of Earth Week events.

Hassol, award-winning climate change communicator, will speak at Elon University on April 19 at 7:30 pm in McKinnon Hall.

The university was selected for the list from a pool of more than 800 schools and recognized for its sustainability-related policies, practices and programs.

Taylor Black was hired this summer to ramp up food production at Loy Farm in coordination with Harvest Table Culinary Group at Elon University

The demonstration, which served as the opening of Campus Sustainability Week at Elon, showed how much of the campus' landfill waste could actually be recycled or composted.

The Sept. 24 event is co-sponsored by Elon's Center for Environmental Studies and the Cape Fear River Assembly.