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It just didn’t seem right that Ashlee Crewe had to forfeit her college graduation to join teammates in Georgia this weekend for the NCAA softball tournament. So in front of family and friends, Crewe received her diploma Wednesday evening from Elon President Leo M. Lambert in a ceremony honoring the only senior on the Southern Conference championship team.

Within hours of receiving his diploma on Saturday, Kyle Johnson will drive to Georgia to train for a service program that will take him to 11 different countries in as many months. His inspiration? A “bucket list” his father compiled – and mostly completed – before dying on New Year’s Day.

The School of Communications has published the inaugural issue of the Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications, the first journal of its kind in the nation.

Alumnus and acclaimed filmmaker Laith al-Majali will deliver �������޹�����Ʒ's 120th Commencement address scheduled for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Under the Oaks in front of West Residence Hall.

Molly McKnight Costigan, an �������޹�����Ʒ Spanish major, has been named the recipient of a 2010 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which will fund one year in Spain teaching in an elementary school while conducting an independent project.

Four faculty members were honored May 12, 2010, for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at �������޹�����Ʒ’s faculty-staff awards luncheon. Those recognized included Eric Hall, April Post, Todd Lee and Jeffrey C. Pugh.

The School of Education recognized distinguished student and faculty achievement over the past year in a May 7 ceremony.

�������޹�����Ʒ history professor Brian Digre has received a 2010 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad award, which will fund a six-week visit to the Gulf nations of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait for study and research.

Twenty-six rising sophomores from the Alamance-Burlington School System have been selected to join the fourth class of scholars in the , a college access and success program for academically talented students held each year on the �������޹�����Ʒ campus.

The abduction and abuse of children for the use of child soldiering is an epidemic in parts of Africa, and when �������޹�����Ʒ senior Katie Meyer first heard stories of forced conscription as a senior in high school, she took action. Meyer is the eighth student to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars.