Articles by Eric Townsend
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With ice cream and music, Elon Academy scholars celebrate a return to campus
June 18, 2025
Seventy high schoolers will spend the next three weeks taking classes and building relationships through ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s college access and success program for academically promising students in Alamance County with a financial need or no family history of college.Â
Rafi Dahdal ’24 G’24 elected ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Youth Trustee
June 12, 2025
The graduate of the Accelerated 3+1 Dual-Degree Program in Business Analytics in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business serves as a division business analyst at Lennar in Raleigh, N.C., and aspires to attend medical school.
2025 Commencement news releases available to download
June 9, 2025
¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has made available online customized announcements for graduating seniors and their parents to submit to hometown media outlets.
¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· students honored for spring semester grades
June 9, 2025
¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· has released its President's List and Dean's List academic recognitions for the 2025 spring semester.
Alumnus Cam Tims ’00 elected to ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Board of TrusteesÂ
June 9, 2025
The former Youth Trustee and current member of the President’s Round Table is a seasoned entrepreneur and philanthropist whose long-standing support for his alma mater, including the establishment of an endowed scholarship and gifts to student-focused initiatives, earned him the Distinguished Service to Elon Award in 2009.Â
Engineering seniors demonstrate their design and public speaking skills
June 4, 2025
Students who completed an engineering capstone course shared details of their work this spring in an annual ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· program that showcases solutions to real-world challenges faced by local companies and nonprofits.
Ringing in a decade of collaboration with the Peace Corps
May 27, 2025
Kira Campagna ’26 and Ruby Radis ’26 were the first two students to chime a newly installed bell inside the Isabella Cannon Global Education Center to celebrate their completion of the Peace Corps Prep Program at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·.
For Elon’s international students, an opportunity to put down roots
May 24, 2025
What do you do with the gift of an oak sapling when you can’t bring it back to your home nation after graduation? You plant it in a campus grove that celebrates your achievement.
Graduate students tasked with promoting ‘belief, belonging, behavior’
May 22, 2025
Kevin A. Trapani, the retired co-founder, president, and CEO of a North Carolina insurance provider who serves as an executive-in-residence for the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, delivered a Commencement address to ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· master's candidates in the Class of 2025 whom he challenged to "teach character" by embracing habits for life in a chaotic world.
Accomplished career services leader to helm Student Professional Development Center
May 20, 2025
Heather Packo brings a history of building and managing career programs at top national universities to her role as ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™s next associate vice president for the Student Professional Development Center.