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¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ music majors Jacob Danieley and Kaitlyn Fay have been named finalists in the 12th Annual John Lennon Scholarship Songwriting Program, a national contest established in 1997 by Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, and the BMI Foundation.

A recent New York Times story on the economy cites ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ research conducted by an Elon student while she studied at the university earlier this decade.

Political science & public administration major Kristine Elizabeth Silvestri has been named a finalist for a 2009 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.”

An $84,000 grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center is helping ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ purchase state-of-the-art equipment for processing DNA samples, a move that will accelerate and expand faculty and ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ science research that, until now, has relied on outside companies for processing.

Larissa Ferretti, a senior Honors Fellow and psychology major, will share her research this spring with lawmakers in Washington about the effects of parental involvement in ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ math and number skills to young children. The May presentation is part of a highly selective program that features leading ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ research from around the nation.

The "2009 Fiske Guide to Colleges" lists Elon as one of the nation's "best buy" universities and a "rapidly rising star among liberal arts colleges in the Southeast and an emerging name nationwide."

The POWERless Energy Competition returned to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ 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.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ has been recognized for the third year in a row as a national leader in service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National & Community Service named the university this week to the 2008 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for exemplary service efforts to America's communities.

Twenty-nine students who spent Winter Term in South Africa collected money this fall to purchase gym uniforms, supplies and books for more than 155 children at a primary school that has worked with ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ since last year through the Global Links Library and Literacy Campaign.