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University interested in research campus
Elon officials visit Core Lab; explore possibilities during tour
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Published: August 20, 2008
Kannapolis - Elon University is interested in the North Carolina Research Campus.
So much so that a group of administrators and faculty took a bus from Elon to Kannapolis on Monday to take a look around.
University spokesman Dan Anderson said it was a "fact-finding trip."
"We're trying to explore where there could be a relationship between the research campus and Elon," Anderson said.
President Leo M. Lambert and a group of faculty members met with Castle & Cooke president Lynne Scott Safrit and took a tour of the Core Research Laboratory and had lunch at Forty-Six.
"I wouldn't say there are discussions going on," Safrit said. "There is nothing specific or solid. It was just a tour. They wanted to know what was going on with the core lab and about the mission of the campus."
Lambert has met with Dole Food Co. owner David Murdock before, both Safrit and Anderson said.
Elon University, located in Elon, in Alamance County, has 5,456 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs. Its business and communications programs are its largest, Anderson said, and Elon is nationally known for its undergraduate research programs.
"That includes scientific research as well," Anderson said, "that involves hands-on mentoring between students and faculty members."
The only private university partnering at the research campus is Duke University, but Castle & Cooke has had discussions with other private institutions such as Davidson College in Davidson and Catawba College in Salisbury.
The latest university to join is Appalachian State in Boone. Its research institute, based on exercise science and developing new nutrients for athletes, is slated to move to temporary offices in Cannon Village by September.
Murdock has said he would like to see other universities involved at the campus, but doesn't want to overlap efforts in scientific research.
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