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Farmers markets get fresh look from Elon professor

July 7, 2008

When it comes to fruits and vegetables, about the only place you can find anything fresher than the produce at a local farmers market is in your own garden. But markets offer another benefit – informal associations with others in a community – that Elon economics professor Thomas Tiemann examines in the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Culture.

2007 alum honored in Miss North Carolina contest

June 27, 2008

Elon alumna Katherine Southard was named 2nd runner up this month in the 2008 Miss North Carolina Scholarship Pageant, two years after surgery to correct a spinal condition that threatened her heart and lungs.

Alumnus Brian Donnelly assists with earthquake relief efforts in China

June 4, 2008

Brian Donnelly ’04 traveled to China in late May as part of a law school/MBA dual-degree program at Rutgers University. He landed in Beijing two hours before the earthquake rocked the Sichuan Province. Donnelly passed up sightseeing in Xi’an to travel to the quake epicenter to help out. The business administration major wrote about his experience.

News & Record publishes Noer column on rating Greensboro’s future

June 2, 2008

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership at Elon, had a column published June 1, 2008, in the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. The column, "Rate Greensboro's Future," dealt with rating the preferred future vision of Greensboro and the region on three scales. 

Elon MBA students receive diplomas

May 23, 2008

University leaders conferred 40 degrees to MBA students in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business on May 23, 2008, during a Commencement attended by faculty, staff, family and friends.