Cultural Programs

Composed by Associate Professor Stephen A. Futrell in the Department of Music, a “celebratory verse” that originally debuted as part of the university’s Ever Elon fundraising campaign was formally recognized this spring as a permanent addition to the institution’s alma mater.

Beloved by generations of students and alumni who know him as “Dr. D,” the university’s president emeritus on April 2 will share stories and reflections of his seven decades at Elon and his hopes for its future. Tickets are now available at the Center for the Arts Box Office and are $13 each or free with an Elon ID.

A revised class schedule is in effect for Wednesday, April 2, as Elon University celebrates a special Spring Convocation featuring President Emeritus J. Earl Danieley '46.

Geshe Gelek Chodha, resident teacher at the Kadampa Center for the practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the Gelugpa Tradition from Raleigh, will be at Elon on Thursday, April 3, in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

The company's spring dance concert opened Thursday and runs through Saturday night in McCrary Theatre inside the Center for the Arts.

A space on the first floor of Lindner Hall now bears the name of two emeriti professors of history whose combined service to Elon University spans more than three quarters of a century.

The Voices of Discovery Science Speakers Series brings to Elon University in March the founding director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.

Four leaders in technology, entertainment and design visit campus on Feb. 22, 2014, to give short lectures as part of the university's TEDx program in Whitley Auditorium.

Led by Clay Stevenson in the Department of Music and Rick Earl, technical director of Cultural and Special Programs at Elon University, recording arts students traveled to western North Carolina in late January for real-world training in sound engineering.

The organ featured at Commencement ceremonies can now be performed using a portable console that allows music from Whitley Auditorium to be carried online for broadcast at special events in Alumni Gym and McCrary Theatre.