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�þ��� Poll director Hunter Bacot answered questions from the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record in a weekly segment published Oct. 26, 2008.

Kristen Sullivan and Cynthia Fair, both from the Department of Human Services at Elon, are presenting research on Oct. 27 at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association in San Diego.

An article by Catherine Ross Dunham, an associate professor of law, has been accepted for publication in the Winter 2009 volume of the University of San Francisco Law Review. Dunham will also be hosting a national expert on electronic discovery on Nov. 10 in her Civil Procedures class.

David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, encouraged students, faculty and university guests at Fall Convocation on Oct. 23 to be avid readers and to seek from American history that courage and wisdom of their ancestors to overcome problems faced today.

“History” is not just what happened at a given time, but to whom it happens and why, said Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, who spoke this week in Greensboro for the Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series. And not all presidents are exceptional, he said, adding that Americans should “count our blessings when a real leader arrives on the scene.”

The �þ��� School of Law is offering a free CLE program on Nov. 7, 2008, for anyone interested in the future of the U.S. financial markets and how they affect businesses from Wall Street to main Street, with a particular focus on attorneys advising individual and business clients.

Thomson West has just published the 3rd edition of Death Penalty in a Nutshell by �þ��� School of Law professor Victor Streib.

Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin electrified thousands of people from across North Carolina on Thursday during a campaign stop at �þ���. Her mission: Explain to the crowd inside the Latham Park baseball stadium why she believes Sen. John McCain is the best man to be the next president.