Archive for April 4, 2011

Applications due for summer teaching renewal retreat

Sometimes an idea will form and all of the pieces will fit together perfectly. And according to associate professor of communications Rich Landesberg, one of his ideas fell into place as he began creating the "60 Minutes" Master Class that’s being offered this spring semester.

From the Wilmington StarNews (4/3/11): Memo to public officials: A closed session is supposed to pertain only to the specific topic for which it was called. In the case of the New Hanover County Commissioners, a closed meeting called to consult with their attorney expanded into an overview of the county's potential classification as an air quality "non-attainment" area and a general discussion of the role of board members in dealing with county employees.

From The Pendulum, Elon's student newspaper (3/29/11): Frank Sesno never intended to be a journalist, but years after he began collecting newspapers at a young age, he admits he was "meant to do this."

Professor Anne Bolin was the invited speaker for the The Cultural Anthropology Graduate Speaker Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., on March 18. Her presentation was titled “Complicating Gender: Border Crossings and Back.”

Keiko Sudani '08, who teaches at a school in Tokyo, has sent a message to the Elon community describing her experiences in the March 11 earthquake. Keiko is the sister of Asami Sudani '06 who previously shared an account of her experiences. Read this note for Keiko's letter to Elon.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has won the Theodore Christian Hoepfner award for the best essay to appear in Southern Humanities Review in 2010.