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Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ, has been selected as one of 35 emerging leaders to take part in the Piedmont Triad Leadership Institute.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ senior Miya Micole Stodghill, a business administration major from Decatur, Ga., has been named the recipient of the second annual Martha and Spencer Love Excellence in Business Leadership Award.

When it comes to fruits and vegetables, about the only place you can find anything fresher than the produce at a local farmers market is in your own garden. But markets offer another benefit – informal associations with others in a community – that Elon economics professor Thomas Tiemann examines in the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Culture.

Elon alumna Katherine Southard was named 2nd runner up this month in the 2008 Miss North Carolina Scholarship Pageant, two years after surgery to correct a spinal condition that threatened her heart and lungs.