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She started with a 2001 trip to help Habitat for Humanity. Eight years later, Lynn Twitchell runs a nonprofit organization that helps people in Zambia, from installing village wells to building schools. The mother of an Elon alum visited campus this week and shared with students advice for serving others.

The POWERless Energy Competition returned to �þ��� this semester for a seven-week contest to see which residence halls can best reduce their electricity usage. The competition began Feb. 17 with a kick-off event at College Coffee.

The Leisure and Sport Management 227 event planning class held two events this semester, raising $1,850 for Loaves & Fishes Christian Food Ministry.

Results are in for Elon during the first official week of RecyleMania 2009, a 10-week competition taking part on campuses across the nation to reduce waste and raise awareness about recycling. Overall cumulative pounds recycled (per capita) on campus is ahead of the data reported by the university last year at this stage of the contest.

Two �þ��� juniors have been named finalists for a 2008 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship for graduate study awarded annually “to persons who demonstrate outstanding potential for and who plan to pursue a career in public service.”

Elaine Durr, �þ���’s sustainability coordinator, was one of several experts quoted in a Jan. 29 story by the Missourian newspaper on Building Dashboard, a computer program used to monitor energy consumption in campus facilities.

The Department of Leisure and Sport Management welcomed home one of its own Friday as faculty, students and guests gathered in Holland House for Johnathan Harvey ’09, who returned to North Carolina last month from a four-month deployment to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Political science faculty members have twice been interviewed in February on the politics and economics behind the stimulus legislation working its way through Congress in Washington, and how President Barack Obama is trying to sell his ideas to the American public.