News Bureau

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was interviewed by CNBC Africa on March 26 regarding the importance of developing African youth as entrepreneurial thinkers as a long term strategy to boost Africa's economy.

Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, spoke with News 14 Carolina news reporter Tim Boyum on March 25 for a segment on the use of furloughs, rather than layoffs, by governments and private companies alike during the current economic recession.

Hunter Bacot, an associate professor of political science and director of the Elon University Poll, was interviewed twice by News 14 Carolina in recent days about the latest poll findings on issues ranging from President Barack Obama's approval ratings in North Carolina and how residents feel about same-sex marriage.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published March 21, 2009, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Mike Kingston, an associate professor of biology, was interviewed by the La Jolla Village News in San Diego, Calif., on the phenomenon of green beaches in southern California.

Wally Bixby, an associate professor of exercise science, provided insight for a "Myth Buster" column featured on AARP Bulletin Today, a daily updated online news site for the AARP and its 40 million members.

A new ranking by The Princeton Review, in partnership with USA Today, names Elon one of the nation’s top values in higher education for 2009. The report, released Jan. 8, is based on 30 factors in three areas: academics, costs and financial aid. Schools chosen “provide high-quality academics at a reasonable price – either by keeping sticker prices in line, or by offsetting high costs with great financial aid packages.”

A March 12 story on NPR's "Marketplace" program featured research into biomimetic cilia by Benjamin Evans, an assistant professor of physics who started his work as a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill.

A recent New York Times story on the economy cites undergraduate research conducted by an Elon student while she studied at the university earlier this decade.

Steven Friedland, a senior scholar and professor at the Elon University School of Law, offered statewide cable news channel News 14 Carolina legal analysis of a federal case against one of two people charged in the March 2008 murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson.