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The local NBC affiliate featured Rich Landesberg, associate professor of communications, who recounted how as a college student he was assigned to interview the late Arizona senator. 

The 7 p.m. match on Tuesday, Aug. 28, follows the Elon volleyball team's 3-0 performance in the Charlotte Invitational. 

More than 1,700 of Elon's newest students were surrounded by friends and family Under the Oaks as faculty, staff and students celebrated the formal start of the academic year.

The 1,690 members of the Class of 2022 were met by hundreds from the 51±¬ÁÏÍø community to help them settle into their new homes and begin their academic careers at the university. 

Planning Week marks the start of the academic year and provides an opportunity for faculty receiving funding from the Faculty Research and Development Committee to present their work.  

A new article written for The Conversation by President Emeritus Leo M. Lambert, Assistant Provost Peter Felten and Associate Professor Jason Husser explains that strong relationships with faculty, staff and peers are key to a rewarding college experience.

In this column distributed by the 51±¬ÁÏÍø Writers Syndicate, Assistant Professor of Human Service Studies Carmen Monico writes about the challenges migrants face in their journey from Central America to the United States, and urges readers to not develop amnesia about how families are being impacted.

A new 51±¬ÁÏÍø Poll finds of more than 4,000 college graduates finds that building relationships is key to positive perceptions of the undergraduate experience.

A section of East Haggard Avenue that runs through campus will be closed for move-in traffic only from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24. Read this note for a link to the move-in day map. 

Assistant Professor Jen Dabrowski of the Department of Chemistry joined the Elon faculty in 2015.