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Mike Kingston, an associate professor of biology, was interviewed by the La Jolla Village News in San Diego, Calif., on the phenomenon of green beaches in southern California.

Wally Bixby, an associate professor of exercise science, provided insight for a "Myth Buster" column featured on AARP Bulletin Today, a daily updated online news site for the AARP and its 40 million members.

A new ranking by The Princeton Review, in partnership with USA Today, names Elon one of the nation’s top values in higher education for 2009. The report, released Jan. 8, is based on 30 factors in three areas: academics, costs and financial aid. Schools chosen “provide high-quality academics at a reasonable price – either by keeping sticker prices in line, or by offsetting high costs with great financial aid packages.”

A March 12 story on NPR's "Marketplace" program featured research into biomimetic cilia by Benjamin Evans, an assistant professor of physics who started his work as a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill.

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

Steven Friedland, a senior scholar and professor at the �þ��� School of Law, offered statewide cable news channel News 14 Carolina legal analysis of a federal case against one of two people charged in the March 2008 murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has had two columns published in February - one in the latest edition of Business Coaching Worldwide, and the other in the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

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."