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Periclean Scholars serve as common reading peer-educators addressing racial inequality
October 7, 2021
As part of their sophomore Periclean coursework, members of the Periclean Scholars Class of 2024 created interactive exercises and discussion questions related to the Common Reading, and worked with fellow Elon students as peer-educators to facilitate engagement with this text.
Periclean Scholars Class of 2023 support local agricultural initiatives in Sri Lanka
September 9, 2021
This effort supports the work of Sarvodaya in an island-wide plan to promote local agriculture and increase food security and family income.
Motley and colleagues publish article in ‘The Global Impact Exchange: A Quarterly Publication of Diversity Abroad’
August 11, 2021
In this article, multiple faculty program leaders reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic forced a reimagining of the student global engagement opportunities they manage at Elon.
#ElonGrad 2021 spotlight: Ellie Moskowitz, human service studies
May 24, 2021
In this series, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences is shining the spotlight on distinguished members of the Class of 2021 from a wide array of disciplines.
Periclean Scholars Class of 2021 co-author successful $715,000 grant from the National Children’s Alliance
May 17, 2021
These funds will be used to support the Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center in its critical advocacy work on Pine Ridge Reservation.
#ElonGrad 2021 spotlight: Mackenzie Martinez, anthropology and women’s, gender & sexualities studies
May 14, 2021
In this series, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences is shining the spotlight on distinguished members of the Class of 2021 from a wide array of disciplines.
Allison Aramburu ’23 selected for U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School
April 27, 2021
The Elon sophomore will begin the program that includes extensive physical, tactical and leadership training, this summer en route to become an officer in the Marine Corps following graduation.
Periclean Scholars help obtain thousands in funding for indigenous children’s organization
February 8, 2021
Members of the Periclean Scholar Class of 2021 have helped the Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center obtain more than $50,000 in funding to support its mission of supporting and advocating for abused Lakota tribe children.
Gendle publishes essay on Sarvodaya social movement
January 20, 2021
In this essay, Director of Project Pericles and Professor of Psychology Mathew Gendle elevates Sri Lanka’s Sarvodaya movement as a model for populist solutions to governmental dysfunction in the U.S.
Gendle co-authors article on community tourism development efforts in Sri Lanka
October 16, 2020
The article by Mathew Gendle, director of Project Pericles and professor of psychology, will appear in the next issue of the journal Tourism in Paradise.