Kernodle Center for Civic Life

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.

The Community Council of Alamance County has honored Elon University associate professors Beth and Bud Warner this month for their volunteer service with the Mayco Bigelow Community Center at North Park.

More than 60 Elon University students have traded their textbooks and laptops for hammers and paintbrushes over Spring Break this week as they take part in service trips to Argentina, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, as well as locales closer to home such as the Gulf Coast and Charleston, S.C.

Tammy Cobb, assistant director for community partnerships in the Kernodle Center for Service Learning, was named co-recipient of the Colleen Newsome Campaign Award from the United Way of Alamance County. The award is given to a campaign cabinet member (or members) who goes above and beyond their campaign position's performance criteria.

Elon University has been recognized for the fourth year in a row as a national leader in service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National & Community Service named the university this week to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for exemplary service efforts to America's communities.

Elon University senior John McGreevy flew to Haiti over Winter Term as part of a research project. Within days he found himself helping the wounded, the widowed and the children made orphans following the impoverished nation’s largest natural disaster in generations. The environmental studies and biology double major from the Philadelphia region recently spoke with E-net about his experience.