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Elon seniors Ivy Crank, John Planisek, Lindsay Clement and Chase Rumley have been selected to join Teach for America, a highly selective program that recruits recent top college graduates and working professionals to commit two years to teach in low-income communities across the country. They were among 5,857 applicants in the first of four recruiting periods for the program’s 2009-10 academic year.

A $2 million gift commitment from the Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Foundation will provide the largest scholarship endowment at the ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· School of Law. The endowment will fund three full-tuition scholarships annually, with the first to be awarded to a member of the 2009 entering class who is chosen as a McMichael Law and Leadership Fellow.

Registration is open for attorneys and law students who wish to attend a symposium on the death penalty scheduled for November 21, 2008, at the ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· School of Law in downtown Greensboro. 5.75 CLE credits are pending approval from the North Carolina State Bar.

Email signatures, or “sig files,” may be the best-kept secret in the marketing world. But as ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· professor Earl Honeycutt shows in new research, due to be published this winter in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, not many companies take advantage of an advertising feature that can reach many thousands of potential customers.

Compared with students at other colleges and universities across the nation, ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· students are much more likely to study abroad, make class presentations, write papers, complete internships and work closely with faculty members on projects outside of class. Those are among the findings of the 2008 National Survey of Student Engagement, released Nov. 10. 

John A. Allison, chairman and CEO of BB&T, comes to ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· on Nov. 5 as the 2008 Ethics in Business speaker for the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Allison delivers his lecture at 4 p.m. in the LaRose Digital Theater inside the business school.

How do you teach future child psychologists and counselors about the problems young people can face? Linda Wilmshurst, an assistant professor of psychology at Elon, offers answers to that question in Abnormal Child Psychology: A Developmental Perspective, a new textbook she has authored for upper undergraduates and master’s-level students.

Four people who make a difference in the lives of others were honored Nov. 3, 2008, in the 15th Annual "Hometown Heroes" awards ceremony at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·. Freshmen class officers selected the honorees for "making a positive difference by touching lives and strengthening their home communities."

North Carolina residents believe there has been more mudslinging and negative campaigning this election season than in previous years, although most say political ads have not been helpful in selecting a candidate to endorse, according to the latest ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Poll.

Richard and John Contiguglia, identical twins who are today considered among the most acclaimed piano-duos in the world, visit ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· on Thursday, November 13, for a performance of four-hand piano on two Steinway concert grand instruments.