Taylor one of Elon trio doing 9/11 research Winter Term

Communications major Mary Taylor was one of three Elon students who spent winter term on an extensive month-long cross-country tour during which they studied the reaction of regular citizens to the terror attacks on 9/11. The students visited New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, and many more cities. Taylor is making a person-on-the-street documentary. Her faculty sponsor is Michael Frontani. She was accompanied by a business major studying the impact of 9/11 on non-profit organizations and fundraising and a psychology major who used questionnaires to measure the psychological impact of the attacks. The three students received a $2,000 study grant collected from several departments including the School of Communications, the first time Elon has sponsored such a project. Their findings will be shared with the entire campus community this spring as part of the annual Student Undergraduate Research Forum.