faculty & staff - grants & honors

1. 

   Geoffrey Claussen elected president of the Society of Jewish Ethics

2. 

   Bob Frigo awarded CoBank Rural Hunger Outreach Grant

3. 

   Scott Wolter receives Duke University/Department of Homeland Security grant

4. 

   Jimmy Curiazza recognized for fundraising efforts to fight cancer

   A staff member with the university's Physical Plant, Curiazza has collected donations for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in recent years by building a holiday light display at his home in Gibsonville, N.C.

5. Angela Lewellyn Jones elected vice-president of the Southern Sociological Society

   Angela Lewellyn Jones, associate dean of Elon College and associate professor of Sociology was recently elected to the position of Vice-President of the Southern Sociological Society for the fiscal year 2016-2017. 

    

6. Brian Pennington receives grant, presents new research on Hinduism and climate change

   Pennington's long-term research in the Indian Himalayas was extended by a grant from the American Academy of Religion to study how local Hindus respond to recent catastrophic floods

7. CATL announces Fall 2014 Teaching & Learning Grant recipients

   The Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning announces the recipients of the Fall 2014 Teaching and Learning Grants.

8. 

   Pamela Winfield receives book prize

   The associate professor of religious studies was named the winner of the fourth annual Book Prize awarded by the Southeastern Conference of the Association of Asian Studies for her book "Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment."

9. 

   Three faculty members named CATL Scholars

   Brandon Essary, Jennifer Uno and Barbara Gordon will work on projects that explore the way students learn in Italian, in biology service-learning courses, and through writing and multimodal assignments, respectively.

10. 

    Matthew Antonio Bosch and Brooke Barnett awarded Guilford Green Foundation grant

11. Scott Wolter awarded Duke University/Intellectual Ventures grant

12. 

    Enrique Armijo named an Advisor at The Free State Foundation

    Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo was named to the Board of Academic Advisors for The Free State Foundation on September 24.

13. 

    Carmen Monico honored as a Rotary Alumni Association member

    In an induction ceremony held Oct. 11, 2014, Assistant Professor Carmen Monico became a charter member of the District 7600 Rotary Alumni Association two years after having served as an Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Research Scholar in Guatemala.

14. 

    Kevin O’Mara receives awards from Atlantic Marketing Association

    A paper co-authored by Professor Kevin O’Mara was recognized as “Best in Conference” and “Best in Track” at the Atlantic Marketing Association conference.

15. Laura Roselle part of panel honored with APSA award

16. Kim Epting receives award for writing research

17. 

    Grant funds research into 'flipped' classrooms

    Seven Elon professors are part of a larger effort funded by the Teagle Foundation to study new classroom approaches to the humanities with an emphasis on engaged learning.

18. 

    Sirena Hargrove-Leak directs NSF-funded grant

    In collaboration with colleagues from two other institutions, Assistant Professor Sirena Hargrove-Leak has received a grant of more than $161,000 from the National Science Foundation to research and reform the way science and engineering students learn in laboratory settings.

19. Four professors named Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows

    A grant from the Coleman Foundation will support the fellows' efforts to encourage entrepreneurship at Elon.

20. 

    Elon awarded National Science Foundation grant

    Megan Squire in the Department of Computing Sciences is the principal investigator for a three-year, $240,028 grant.

21. 

    Elon Law professor and two alumni among North Carolina Bar Association Leadership Academy graduates

    Christopher Anglin L’11, Mital Patel L’09 and Elon Law Professor Hannah Vaughan, director of the law school’s Elder Law Clinic, were among 16 attorneys recognized in June for completion of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.

22. 

    Enrique Armijo named an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law center

    Elon Law Professor Enrique Armijo has accepted an invitation to become an Affiliated Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

23. 

    David Levine selected as a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton

    Elon Law Professor David S. Levine, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has accepted a position as a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy for 2014-15. 

24. 

    Byung Lee receives fellowship to study media analytics at advertising agency

    The associate professor of communications also offered a separate workshop about data collection to a university in Korea.

25. 

    Chad Awtrey receives national award for undergraduate research mentoring

    Assistant Professor of Mathematics Chad Awtrey has been chosen to receive the 2014 Early Career Mentoring Award from the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science within the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

26. Kevin O'Mara receives Coleman Foundation grant

27. 

    Chris Richardson and Tony Crider receive grant for galaxy studies

    Astronomy professors awarded $14,500 of computing resources from NSF-funded program to peform galaxy simulations and analysis.

28. Hebe Fuller to Participate in Forum on Internationalizing U.S. College Campuses

    Fuller, associate dean of Admission and director of International Admissions, will participate in the fifth annual EducationUSA Forum in Washington D.C. from June 23-25, 2014 on behalf of Elon University.

29. 

    'It Takes a Village' Project awarded Phi Kappa Phi Literacy Grant

    A literacy program created by Associate Professor Jean Rattigan-Rohr received $2,500 to help purchase new books for young children tutored by Elon University education majors.

30. 

    Jo Watts Williams '55 awarded Order of the Long Leaf Pine

    Elon University’s vice president emerita received a top North Carolina honor conferred by Gov. Pat McCrory and presented by State Sen. Rick Gunn and Elon University President Leo M. Lambert.

31. 

    Aunchalee Palmquist awarded Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant

32. 

    Religious Studies team receives Interfaith Studies Award

    The Interfaith Youth Core awarded $5,000 this spring to professors Jeffrey C. Pugh, Geoffrey D. Claussen and Amy L. Allocco to help in the development of an interfaith studies course sequence that might also serve as the precursor to a future minor in interfaith studies.

33. 

    Writing Excellence Initiative awards grants to faculty & staff

    Thirty-one faculty and staff members have been awarded Writing Excellence Initiative grants for projects that will help students improve their writing and increase students’ abilities to learn through writing.

34. 

    Gary Palin among top 25 thought leaders invited to entrepreneurship summit

35. 

    School of Education presents awards

     

    The School of Education held its year-end faculty and student awards ceremony on Thursday, May 8.

36. 

    Chemistry professor honored by ASBMB for undergraduate mentoring

    Assistant Professor Vickie Moore traveled to San Diego in April 2014 to present at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

37. 

    Aunchalee Palmquist awarded Wenner-Gren Post Ph.D. grant

    Aunchalee Palmquist, an assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded a post-Ph.D. grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to aid research on "Taking Milk from Strangers: An Anthropological Study of Internet Breast Milk Sharing in the U.S."

38. 

    Elon faculty win award for article on philosophy teaching & learning

    Professor Ann J. Cahill and Associate Professor Stephen Bloch-Schulman received the 2014 Lenssen Prize from the American Association of Philosophy Teachers for "Argumentation Step-by-Step: Learning Critical Thinking Through Deliberative Practice."

39. 

    Lucinda Austin selected as emerging scholar, presents at strategic communications conference

    Communications assistant professor presents her work on social media and crisis communication at a special conference for emerging scholars.

40. CATL announces Spring 2014 Teaching & Learning Grant recipients

    Four faculty members received funds ranging from $1,500 to $4,700 for innovative projects that enhance student learning across a variety of disciplines.

41. The Oaks Neighborhood Association are Awarded a WEI High-Impact Grant

    The Oaks Neighborhood's RAC (Rachaele Andrews), RA (Evan Buck), TSIR (Angela Ansah), Director of Residence Life (Elaine Turner), and association members, (Joan Ruelle and Scott Hildebrand) are awarded a grant for...

    Enhancing Residents’ Writing and Using Writing to Build Community at the Oaks Neighborhood

42. 

    Steven Caldwell awarded AARP Foundation grant

43. 

    Student, registrar receive Distinguished Journalism Award at SACRAO

    Junior Ashley Edwards and Rodney Parks received the journalism award at the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers conference in Raleigh for their work on transgenderism in higher education.

44. Faculty receive Writing Excellence Initiative grants

    Lisa Rosenberg, Belle Booker, Kris Zorigian, Angela Owusu-Ansah and Victoria Shropshire will use funding to help develop innovative approaches to writing in various courses.

45. 

    Rebecca Pope-Ruark wins awards from Association for Business Communication

    The associate professor of English was honored for a paper published in the September 2012 issue of Business Communication Quarterly and for her overall contributions to the mission and membership of the association.

46. Darris Means earns national dissertation award

    Darris Means, Elon Academy Associate Director, has been named the first place winner for the Dissertation Award by the American Association for Blacks in Higher Education.

47. CATL Announces Fall 2013 Teaching & Learning Grant recipients

    The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning announces the recipients of the Fall 2013 Teaching and Learning Grants.

48. Applications now being accepted for Diversity Infusion grants

49. Darris Means selected to receive Award for Co-authored Article

    The American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee on Men and Masculinities will present Darris R. Means, associate director of the Elon Academy, and Donald Mitchell Jr., assistant professor of higher education at Grand Valley State University, with the Outstanding Research Award in March.

50. Darris Means selected to receive Research Award

    The American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness will present Darris R. Means, Elon Academy associate director, with the 2014 Research Recognition Award in March.