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¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· young alumna Kristine Silverstri served as a guest writer this week for Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, who published on his newspaper blog Silvestri's account of contracting malaria when she visited Ghana in late 2008.

Elon's baseball team is among three Southern Conference teams named to the field of 64 for the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The Phoenix (38-22) will play its first round game against Alabama (37-22) in the Atlanta regional at 3 p.m., Friday, June 4. The other teams in the double elimination Atlanta regional are Mercer University (37-22) and Georgia Tech (45-13).

The United States Library of Congress has selected ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·’s Imagining the Internet Web site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials.

Are you expecting or know a fellow alum who is? Have a future Phoenix toddling around the house? Deck them out in maroon and gold with great new infant, toddler and children's apparel now available at the Campus Shop!

A university senior and his family want to raise awareness of suicide prevention strategies as they compete for a $50,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project, and he needs the Elon community’s help with online voting for the Hold Hope Initiative in memory of his brother.

Fourteen ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· alumni in the Class of 2010 will re-enter the classroom this fall as educators with Teach for America, a national nonprofit that recruits recent college graduates to help erase what it describes as educational inequity found in many urban and rural low-income communities.

Hundreds of students, and nearly as many professors and administrators, mingled Wednesday afternoon on the green outside Moseley Center in the annual Senior Class Picnic for Graduates, Faculty and Staff. The informal event gives seniors a moment to relax over pork barbecue and grilled chicken with the ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· educators who guided them through four years of study.