Lumen Prize

Working with children in Head Start, Elon senior Lauren Deaver explores how parents and children sharing stories at home impacts reading in school.

Senior Daniel Koehler's upcoming documentary tackles the complex interaction of race, politics and economics in the African nation.

Two students in the School of Communications were selected to participate in the 2012 Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative this summer in Arizona.

An Elon senior uses a top award to trace the evolution of organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students at Duke and UNC.

An Elon psychology major is driven to help the elderly strengthen their minds in part because of a close bond shared with her grandparents.

As a growing number of children born with the viruses survive into adulthood, advocates are not always sure how to handle reproductive questions.

Three Elon University seniors – Chris Jarrett, Gabrielle Dean and Brittany Carroll – have each been awarded Fulbright Program grants for overseas research and teaching, and their selections represent the largest number of students in university history to receive the prestigious national honor in the same academic year.

Fifteen rising juniors at Elon have been named recipients of the 2011 Lumen Prize, the university’s premier award that comes with a $15,000 scholarship to support and celebrate their academic achievements and research proposals.