Archive for October 5, 2010

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Faculty Leadership Fellow and Associate Professor of Psychology, Chris Leupold, was recently elected as Vice Chair of the North Carolina Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (NCIOP), a professional organization.

"Fresh. Friendly. Fast." For Burney Jennings '87, president and CEO of the North Carolina-based Biscuitville restaurant chain, it's those qualities - and in that order - that have made the company founded by his father, Maurice Jennings '57, such a success. The younger Jennings shared his family's story with a crowded LaRose Digital Theatre on Sept. 15, 2010, in the annual Legends of Business program sponsored by the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

Pamela M. Kiser, Watts-Thompson Professor in the Department of Human Service Studies, was formally awarded the Distinguished University Professorship at a special investiture ceremony on Oct. 4. The board of trustees conferred the professorship on Kiser last spring, and the special ceremony was an opportunity to celebrate Kiser's contributions to teaching, scholarship and service to the Elon University community.

Donna Van Bodegraven, associate professor of Spanish, attended the fourth-annual Maya studies conference (known as "Maya at the Playa") in Bunnell, Fla. in early October.