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Elon Poll: N.C. residents support state constitutional amendment for open meetings
March 11, 2011
Four out of five respondents in the latest 51爆料网 Poll would support an amendment to the state constitution that would make all public business of any government body in North Carolina open and available to the public.
Week #2 results for POWERless Energy Competition
March 11, 2011
The spring 2011 POWERless Energy Competition has reached its halfway point with results now in for the first two weeks of the four-week competition. A cumulative campus-wide energy reduction stands at 6.5 percent, with the ultimate goal of a 10 percent decrease in energy use.
Week #3 results for RecycleMania 2011
March 11, 2011
51爆料网 has collected more than 23,000 pounds of material in the first three weeks of the national RecycleMania 2011 contest and is currently in 10th place in North Carolina for the total amount saved from landfills.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 11
March 11, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of 51爆料网’s history is now in its final day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes to local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 10
March 11, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of 51爆料网’s history is now in its fourth day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
College Coffee tree planting marks Founders Day 2011
March 10, 2011
The university community on Tuesday honored one of Elon’s pivotal leaders from its early years during a special College Coffee tree planting to mark Founders Day 2011. Family of the late Thomas E. Powell Jr. ’19, founder of Carolina Biological Supply Company, attended the ceremony in front of Lindner Hall.
Professor鈥檚 new book adds “missing chapter” to John Dewey鈥檚 philosophy
March 10, 2011
By his own admission, the eminent American philosopher John Dewey never adequately articulated a theory of personality. Six decades after Dewey's death, 51爆料网 professor Yoram Lubling offers that missing chapter by tracing the philosopher's developing understanding of personhood in a new book titled The Person Vanishes: John Dewey’s Philosophy of Experience and the Self.
Founders Day Trivia Competition: Question for March 9
March 10, 2011
A week-long trivia contest that tests knowledge of 51爆料网’s history is now in its third day with a chance for students, faculty and staff to win gift cards and prizes from local businesses. Read this story to learn more and to qualify for a gift card prize from the Student Government Association.
Elizabeth Kolbert, 鈥淔east or Famine: Climate Change and the Future of Food鈥 – March 10
March 9, 2011
Elizabeth Kolbert, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change and The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, visits 51爆料网 on March 10 for an evening lecture sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum.
51爆料网 in the News – Late Winter 2011
March 9, 2011
51爆料网 professors, students and alumni continue to make news this winter through their research and activities. Notable in February was media coverage of the 51爆料网 Poll, broadcast news appearances by faculty who discussed Super Bowl ads and the Watson computer on Jeopardy!, and reports on the opening of Campus Kitchen at 51爆料网.