NEWS

  • Walk of Love 5k run/walk event raises money for orphaned children

    Walk of Love 5k run/walk event raises money for orphaned children

    The Walk of Love cross country 5k run and fun walk took place at Elizabethtown College  on  Saturday, Oct. 25. Participants came together to raise money to benefit orphaned children around the world. Sophomore Juliana Mowen lives in the Hope House Student Directed Learning Community (SDLC) and works with the charity Brittany’s Hope to help

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  • Engineering program benefits from newly dedicated “Fab Lab”

    n Friday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m., the new Bollman Fabrication Laboratory was dedicated. The lab replaced the greenhouses attached to Esbenshade. The advanced prototyping lab, nicknamed the “Fab Lab,” will be used in several engineering courses to give engineering students a place to complete various projects. According to an email distributed prior to the

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  • Class of 1976 alumna receives Educate for Service award, highest alumni honor

    Class of 1976 alumna receives Educate for Service award, highest alumni honor

    On Friday, Oct. 24, Class of 1976 alumna Nancy Dering Mock received the Service Through Professional Achievement Award of 2014. The ceremony took place during the President’s Dinner held at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown. The Alumni Council selected Mock as one of three recipients of the Educate for Service Awards. Rachel Jones Williams (’06)

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CAMPUS LIFE

  • Company mandates nicotine testing for employees

    Company mandates nicotine testing for employees

    I’ll be the first to admit that I enjoy smoking a pipe or a cigar on rare occasions. I think it surprises many people when I confess to enjoying a high-quality stogie after my cross country or track season ends. The majority of runners typically don’t indulge in smoking, and I wouldn’t recommend it more

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  • States remove No Child Left Behind

    States remove No Child Left Behind

    No Child Left Behind, “one of President George W. Bush’s most touted domestic accomplishments,” according to the Huffington Post, is no longer in effect in 10 states. President Barack Obama has freed these states from certain restrictions of No Child Left Behind, such as using only standardized test scores as a way to measure academic

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  • Research on eating less helps scone lover

    Research on eating less helps scone lover

    When Dr. Jane Cavender introduced the speaker in Gibble the other day, she was aware that the audience consisted of biology students and faculty interested in learning about the relationship between calorie intake and longevity. The speaker was Behzad Varamini, who is currently completing a postdoc at UPenn. What made matters even more interesting was

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