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Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini visited Elon University on Tuesday as the keynote speaker for Fall Convocation, and during his time on stage, the Afghan native implored students to travel the world in the coming years to better understand how events around the globe impact their lives at home.

Elon has received 1,400 doses of seasonal flu vaccine (not the H1N1 vaccine) which will be administered free to students, faculty, staff and retirees on Monday - Wednesday, Oct. 12-14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Moseley Center Fireside Lounge. Read this note for details...

Khaled Hosseini, the celebrated author of Elon University’s 2009-2010 Common Reading selection, comes to campus Oct. 13 for a moderated discussion during Fall Convocation. Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns traces the volatile events of Afghanistan's most recent decades as told through the eyes of two women whose lives are thrust together by war.

Elon University senior Bryce Little has been keeping a blog of his study abroad experiences in Ghana this semester, and late last month, he posted a short story about a mid September canoe ride that ended with his efforts to keep a man who couldn’t swim from drowning when the craft sank into a lake.

The MBA program of Elon’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is ranked as the nation's fifth "best administered" program in The Princeton Review's 2010 edition of the "Best 301 Business Schools."

Malaria kills as many as 3 million people worldwide each year, and for Elon University senior Amanda Brown, that’s 3 million people too many. The Ohio native, who is using her considerable mathematics skills to combat the disease, is the first student to be featured in a monthly series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of the university's Lumen Scholars.

A poetic new book by philosophy professor emeritus John G. Sullivan invites readers to embrace new energies and practices in the second half of their lives, rethinking many of the traditional views of retirement.

Family Weekend 2009 runs Sept. 25-27 with a series of events that include a golf tournament, concerts and a football game between the 13th-ranked Elon Phoenix and the Georgia Southern Eagles.

Acclaimed Broadway songwriter Craig Carnelia spent two days on campus last week offering master classes for top Elon University students in the performing arts programs.