NEWS
9/28/11 11:20pm
Letter to Parents Post-Parents Weekend
Dear Parents, Hope you made it home safely from Parents Weekend. It was nice to have you visit Elon.
Dear Parents, Hope you made it home safely from Parents Weekend. It was nice to have you visit Elon.
It is getting harder to find Mr. or Mrs. Right. Just ask any young person how their last relationship went. According to the U.S.
It took less than 48 hours for the N.C. General Assembly to pass an amendment saying marriage is only between a man and a woman. Once that decision was made, the constituents of North Carolina had 5,736 hours to decide what the definition of marriage is before they enter the polls for the May 2012 primary ballots and vote on writing the Defense of Marriage amendment into the state constitution. When voters are deciding whether to approve or reject the amendment, they will only be able to read the first sentence of the amendment on the ballot.
Four hundred forty-seven billion dollars is a lot of money. That's the amount President Barack Obama's recently announced American Jobs Act will cost to implement.
Elon University student surveys reported the past meal plan system was the best in the region, noted for its variety in food options and dining locations.
For the first time in its history, Elon University identified the number of first-generation college students in the incoming freshmen class.
The annual Emmy Awards ceremony acknowledges that one of the greatest measures of success is recognition.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Elon University $1.2 million for the training of math and science teachers as part of its Robert Noyce scholarship program.
Among the list of resources and programs that Career Services offers Elon University students and alumni is the Elon Career Network.
The Elon Town Center will soon welcome another restaurant, Pandora's Pies. The restaurant, which is still under construction inside, will feature specialty pizzas, salads, soups, bruschetta and a small bar. Owned by Jeff MacKenzie and Peter Ustach, who also own the Fat Frogg, Pandora's Pies will occupy the remaining space on the first story of Elon Town Center, next to the Elon University campus bookstore, Barnes & Noble at Elon University.
Support for President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign was overwhelming on college campuses.
President Barack Obama has proposed a new tax on individuals making more than $1 million per year.
Elon team travels to Kenya for forum about the Internet Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center sent three students to the Internet Governance Forum in Kenya this week. Seniors Kellye Coleman and Samantha Baranowski and sophomore Nicole Chadwick were joined by alumni Taylor Foshee and Lee Hopcraft and communications professor Rich Landesberg in Nairobi. Professor receives NSF grant Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, has received a $14,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a software tool that assists beginning computer programmers with writing code. Hutchings will be joined by colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Johnson C.
1. Google yourself. This is not a joke. Sure, it may seem a little narcissistic to creep on yourself, but the first step to making sure the whole wide interweb is displaying a favorable portrait of you is to see what pops up.
Ross Wade, assistant director of Career Services for the School of Communications, invited iMedia students to join him as he presented at the Triangle Social Media Club (SMC) meeting to discuss how job seekers can successfully utilize social media in their job search.
Summer has officially ended and your summer clothes will soon take a back seat in the closet, if they haven't already.
We all know it's important to recycle, but sometimes it's hard to keep track of the best way to do it. Which recycling numbers are allowed? Do I leave the cap on or take it off? Should I rinse this out? A particularly troublesome object is the carton because it's part paper, plastic and aluminum. According to Earth911.com, there are two types of cartons. The first kind is shelf-stable cartons, which are made from paper with a thin layer of plastic and aluminum to preserve products without refrigeration.
Chris Burgess received his first tattoo, a yellow round smiley face in the center of his arm, at age 14.
MADRID – Play, jump, fight and run are all things one can do with a bull in Spain. I moved to Spain to study abroad on Sept.
The job of art historians is to discover the origins of artwork, but when it comes to art from early medieval periods, historians find themselves in a world shrouded with mystery. "We've got objects, but no fancy story to attach to them," said Sigrid Danielson, in her lecture titled "Art History and the Early Medieval Artist" at Elon University Tuesday evening. Historians saw the names of artists as "signifiers of ethnic identity and geographic origins of the object's creator," Danielson said. From the 1920s to the 1950s, schools of art history responded to the lack of information about early medieval art by focusing solely on the artist, specifically his or her ethnicity.
