Archive for February 2, 2010

C. Catherine Chiang, assistant professor of accounting in the Love School of Business, recently published an article, “Product Diversification in Competitive R&D-Intensive Firms: An Empirical Study of the Computer Software Industry,” in the January/February 2010 issue of Journal of Applied Business Research.

Due to continued inclement weather and icy roads, Elon University and Elon University School of Law will delay opening until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Read this note for full details...

She went to Haiti to document why some impoverished children thrived while others fell ill to malnourishment. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake tore apart the Caribbean nation, Courtney Latta ’09 found herself struggling not only for her own survival, but to help the countless victims of the region’s largest natural disaster in several generations.

Douglas G. and Edna Truitt Noiles ’44, of New Canaan, Conn., have made a $1 million gift to Elon University to support the Elon Academy, a university-run college access program for Alamance County high school students.

How does one man serve as a voice for minority populations in a nation where it can be difficult for immigrants to feel welcome? And how do his lessons from France resonate for cultures around the globe? Sophie Adamson, an assistant professor of French, explores those questions in her first published book, Ethics, Politics and Poetics in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Harrouda, La Réclusion solitaire and L’Ange aveugle.

Myers, former Clinton spokeswoman and the first woman to serve as a White House press secretary, visited Elon twice in January as the sixth Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership.

When Nick Igdalsky '99 visits Daytona International Speedway this weekend to begin his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series, he’ll find himself running against a familiar name in motorsports: Danica Patrick, an international sensation making her debut in stock car racing in the same field as the Elon University alum.