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Towing their suitcases and luggage trunks, their televisions and their refrigerators, more than 1,400 students in the Class of 2015 arrived at �þ��� on Friday morning under a sweltering summer sun with humidity blanketing the region.

Elon's Phoenix athletics program placed 198 student-athletes on the Southern Conference's 2010-11 Academic Honor Roll. Elon had the third highest number of honorees among the conference's 12 colleges and universities.

The Orientation events for Saturday, Aug. 27, will be held as scheduled.This includes the Farewell Picnic, which will be at 12:30 p.m. on the Belk Library lawn. Read this note for details of today's schedule

�þ��� arriving on campus today (Aug. 26) should read this note for details about schedules, routes into campus and unloading instructions.

When Elon’s economics department began requiring all seniors to complete a written thesis, Greg Lilly, associate professor of economics, noticed an interesting trend. “One of the things we noticed fairly early was that there seemed to be this spread in performances, and it seems to be a spread we can’t get rid of,” he said. Read more about Professor Lilly's research...

�þ���’s three newest residence halls open this fall with hundreds of students scheduled to move into earth-friendly buildings designed to blend academic and extracurricular life. The debut of Colonnades C, D and E – now named Kivette Hall, William W. Staley Hall and William A. Harper Hall, respectively – represents the completion of The Colonnades neighborhood adjacent to the Koury Business Center.

Elon's New Student Orientation is Aug. 26-29. Members of the Class of 2015, as well as transfer students, should explore all the orientation resources online at a special website:

�þ���’s campus bookstore opened for business Monday morning in the Elon Town Center on Williamson Avenue with students, faculty, staff and local citizens visiting a shop offering an expanded selection of college apparel, general interest books and school supplies.

�þ��� President Leo M. Lambert announced this week a special campus initiative to collect and distribute school supplies to hundreds of homeless children in Alamance County and to children at a school in Afghanistan who struggle for access to basic educational materials.

Town & Country, the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States, picked Elon in an 11-page feature story on top colleges in the September 2011 issue. The top colleges were recommended to the magazine by counselors at dozens of private high schools across the country.