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Written by 13 scholars, Speaking Out: Underrepresented Students Challenging the Inequities of College Access, is filled with personal voices.

Senior English major Kasey Thornton has been named a finalist in the NC State Fiction Contest. The contest is open to all North Carolina residents as well as all students currently enrolled in North Carolina universities.

Associate Professor of English Babara Gordon's chapter, "Caught in a Firestorm, A Harsh Lesson Learned Teaching AAEV," appears in Utah State University Press's recently released book Writing Centers and the New Racism, edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan.

Associate Professor Crystal S. Anderson in the Department of English has been invited to join the board of editors of American Studies.

Chad Awtrey, Prudence Layne, and Rebecca Pope-Ruark have been selected as CATL Scholars for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years.

Fiction writer Jennifer Davis, whose work is funny and weird and cool and beautiful, will be reading Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Isabella Cannon Room (in the Cntr for Perf Arts).

Five Elon faculty and a student presented widely at the 2011 meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Held in Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 20-23, the conference brought together faculty and student scholars from around the world to discuss the latest research on teaching and learning.

Associate Professor of English Barbara Gordon discussed her coauthored book, Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance, in a number of television appearances in October.

Kevin Boyle, David Crowe and Megan Squire have been selected as Senior Faculty Research Fellows for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years.

Two Elon University juniors employ their love of running as a fundraiser for pediatric cancer patients and their families.