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Downtown/East Burlington Express Loop makes inaugural ride
February 15, 2010
A new BioBus route made its debut Tuesday afternoon as a group of faculty, staff and students traveled through Burlington as part of the Downtown/East Burlington Express Loop. The route will help will lead to a reduction in the university’s carbon footprint and assist academic service-learning and federal work study students who need transportation away from campus.
Professional Discovery Week is Feb. 15-18
February 15, 2010
Elon Career Services is now hosting its fourth annual Professional Discovery Week, a program designed to provide students in all majors with opportunities to explore career options, learn effective job search skills and transition from college to career.
Sophomore uses award to advocate for child victims
February 11, 2010
They come to the center from the streets, broken homes and jails where they served time with adults. Dozens of Filipino boys, victims of sexual abuse, seek refuge each year at the Stairway Foundation south of Manila – a place where sophomore Meagan Harrison last summer spent two months volunteering through Elon University’s Ward Family Learning in Action Award.
Business of NASCAR class raises $700 for the Victory Junction Gang Camp
February 10, 2010
The "Business of NASCAR" business course raised $700 during Winter Term for the Victory Junction Gang Camp, which brings the course’s three-year total contribution to more than $1,200 for a nonprofit organization in North Carolina that serves children with chronic or serious medical conditions.
ODK inducts newest members
February 9, 2010
Elon's Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society welcomed its 2010 inductees in a Feb. 7 afternoon ceremony in McKinnon Hall. Students are juniors or seniors in the top 35 percent of their class who have been in residence at least one semester, and who have exhibited outstanding leadership in more than one area of the university community.
Reserve a spot by March 1 for a Middle East Pilgrimage
February 9, 2010
Come together for a rare and exciting opportunity this summer as the university hosts a two-week journey to lands where three of the world’s major religious traditions have developed and flourished over millennia.
Elon hosts 2010 U.S. Census Road Tour event
February 9, 2010
The 2010 U.S. Census "Portrait of America" Road Tour stopped at Elon University on Tuesday as part of the largest civic outreach and awareness campaign in the bureau's history, with a specific focus on the hard-to-count demographics such as college students and economically disadvantaged Americans.
Elon senior recounts Haiti ordeal to Pennsylvania newspaper
February 3, 2010
John McGreevy '10, an environmental studies and biology major who was in Haiti during the devastating earthquake, recounts his experiences and efforts to assist victims in the Jan. 27 edition of The Mercury newspaper of Pottstown, Penn. McGreevy helped with emergency supplies, worked with orphans, witnessed emergency surgeries, and used his outdoor skills to become the de facto sanitation engineer in an area of Port-au-Prince.
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Alumna raises awareness of Haiti following quake survival
February 2, 2010
She went to Haiti to document why some impoverished children thrived while others fell ill to malnourishment. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake tore apart the Caribbean nation, Courtney Latta ’09 found herself struggling not only for her own survival, but to help the countless victims of the region’s largest natural disaster in several generations.