Archive for April 1, 2010

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded associate professor Charles Irons a $6,000 summer stipend to research how white and black Southerners interacted in church after the Civil War – and why some congregations stayed integrated for years while others split almost instantly along racial lines.

"Spaceman," a short film by School of Communications instructor Nicole Triche, will be screened twice as a part of the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, S.C.

In an online story posted March 31, the Chronicle of Higher Education cited work by assistant professor Tony Weaver on the recent trend of colleges and universities paying their new basketball coaches higher salaries than the men who were replaced.

Allen E. Gant Jr., chief executive officer of Burlington, N.C.-based Glen Raven, Inc., a global provider of innovative fabric-based solutions, was honored at a March 30 campus luncheon with the Frank S. Holt, Jr. Business Leadership Award, Elon University’s highest honor for business leadership.

Anne Bolin was invited to organize and co-chair a symposium titled "Issues in Teaching Human Sexuality: Sexual Orientations" at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Merida, Mexico, from March 24-27.

Tiffani Bacon, a 2003 graduate of the Elon DPT program, spent a week in Haiti providing much needed physical therapy services to children at the Love a Child Disaster Recovery Center. To read her touching personal story, please click the link to the right. Blog photos courtesty of Victor Banta and Justin Ide.

Elon Law's office of Career Services invites law students for a panel presentation regarding post graduate judicial clerkships, Thursday, April 8 from noon to 1 pm in Room 204. If you are rising third-year student and plan to apply for judicial clerkships during the summer months or you are a rising second-year law student who is interested in hearing more about judicial clerkships following law school, this is an important panel to attend.