福利亚洲国产精品 professors, students and alumni continue to make news this spring through their research and campus activities. Notable in March and April was media coverage by the Associated Press of the 福利亚洲国产精品 Poll, faculty scholarship cited by the Huffington Post and mention of 福利亚洲国产精品's sustainability efforts by USA Today.
The following list should not be considered exhaustive and does not include athletics news.
March 2011: Elite magazine: profiled students at some of North Carolina’s top colleges and universities – including Elon senior Nicolas Ochsner, who spoke about his time at Elon. Elite is a publication of the Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina.
3/11: Business Journal of the Triad: reports on a guest lecture at the law school in downtown Greensboro.
3/12: (Wilmington, N.C.) Star-News Online: is the newspaper’s literary blog, Bookmarks, reporting on the release of a paperback edition of associate professor Drew Perry’s debut novel.
3/13: WRAL-TV (Raleigh, N.C.): cites data from a recent 福利亚洲国产精品 Poll on the support state residents have for making government more transparent. RELATED from the (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer: RELATED from the Winston-Salem Journal: RELATED from the Charlotte Observer:
3/13: (Rock Hill, S.C.) The Herald: was a column written by associate professor Kenn Gaither about the lasting impact of his father’s efforts to desegregate a “whites only” counter at a South Carolina establishment in the early 1960s.
3/15: News 14 Carolina: was a three-minute interview with associate professor Brooke Barnett, executive director of the N.C. Sunshine Center housed at 福利亚洲国产精品, in which she discusses the importance of open government records and meetings.
3/15: News 14 Carolina: reported on the health and wellness findings of a community survey conducted by the 福利亚洲国产精品 Poll. RELATED from WFMY News 2: RELATED from the (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: RELATED from the Business Journal of the Triad:
3/16: (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record: uses data from a recent 福利亚洲国产精品 Poll in a story about proposed legislation in Raleigh.
3/18: High Point Enterprise: quotes economics professor Thomas Tiemann on the effects, or lack thereof, of a real estate transaction involving three furniture showrooms in High Point, N.C.
3/23: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: previews Lemonade Day on May 7, when entrepreneurship students at Elon will assist local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts with running their own lemonade stands to learn entrepreneurship skills.
4/1: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: reported on the visit to campus by the co-author of The Berenstain Bears series.
4/3: Newsweek: is the story of a Pennsylvania high school junior and his parents as they make a visit to several New England colleges. Elon is a school that the family says it plans to visit in the south.
4/4: New York Times: is a post to the Times’ “The Choice” blog, which reports on admissions and financial aid information.
4/4: Live Science: reports on research into grooming conducted by faculty in the Department of Economics.
4/9: WCPN Radio/TV Northeast Ohio Public Radio: “Prisoners of Plenty” was a half-hour interview with associate professor Tom Nelson about his film, “Prisoners of Plenty, on the German American Radio Hour. (Not currently posted online.)
4/9: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: includes quotes from Elon freshman Frank Garcia from the 10th anniversary Celebration of Minority Academic Achievement in the Alamance-Burlington School System.
4/9: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: tells of a visit by Periclean Scholars to the Alamance County Landfill with a Periclean Scholar-in-Residence.
4/10: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: reports on expansion and construction plans on campus scheduled to begin this summer.
4/11: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: is a feature story Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office by Elon professor Jeffrey C. Pugh.
4/14: Fox 8 WGHP: is an extended profile of Mike Berenstain, an author and illustrator who is continuing the legacy of The Berenstain Bears children’s books started nearly 50 years ago by his parents, Stan and Jan. Mike Berenstain’s daughter attends Elon and the report shows footage from his recent visit to the university.
April 2011: The Parent’s Lounge podcast blog: is an interview with professor Linda Wilmshurt and Alan Brue, her co-author on a recent book on special education.
4/15: Charlotte Business Journal: profiles Mark Jetton and Eric Meredith, two Elon law graduates who have started their own firm in North Carolina’s largest city.
4/16: Associated Press (via Greensboro, N.C. News & Record): shared findings from the latest 福利亚洲国产精品 Poll looking at job approval numbers for various lawmakers. RELATED from the Business Journal of the Triad: RELATED from News 14 Carolina: RELATED from the North Carolina News Network:
4/16: WFMY News 2: covered the April 16 dedication ceremony of the university’s new athletics facility north of Rhodes Stadium.
4/17: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: reported on the surprise visit of Baltimore Ravens player Ray Lewis to the Elon Phoenix locker room on the day of the scheduled spring football game.
4/18: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: reports on the board of trustees vote to establish the School of Health Sciences to be housed in the Gerald L. Francis Center. RELATED from the Business Journal of the Triad: RELATED from the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record:
4/19: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: shares more data from the final 福利亚洲国产精品 Poll of the spring. RELATED from News 14 Carolina:
4/20: USA Today: cites Elon in a story on The Princeton Review’s 311 “Green Colleges.”
4/21: TechJournal South: reports on an honor received by the center in Elon’s School of Communications.
4/21: The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star: includes an extended interview with Elon alumna Courtney Markowitz ’10 about the touring musical, which previously starred two performers who have made it big on the Fox hit program “Glee”.
4/21: USA Today: is a “Campus Rivalry” blog entry from USA Today on the visit to the Phoenix locker room on April 16 by the Baltimore Ravens linebacker. RELATED from the Baltimore Sun (Ravens Insider blog):
4/21: Huffington Post: by Monroe Price, director of the Center for Global Communications Studies at the Annenberg School, cites research by 福利亚洲国产精品 professor Laura Roselle on “strategic narratives” on how global actors should function.
4/22: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: is a guest column by associate professor Jeffrey Coker on the ideas behind the global observance of Earth Day.