Archive for April 29, 2015

Professor Amy Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, has been exploring the concept of "unfreedom" through an examination of the Jamaican Maroon practice of holding people in bondage during the 17th through the 19th centuries.

All members of the campus community are invited to celebrate the new headquarters for admissions and campus visits in a special dedication event.

Itzhak Perlman, Walter Isaacson, Melissa Harris-Perry and Leonard Pitts visit campus next year for Elon University’s convocations, Winter Term Opening Address and Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture.

Faculty from Department of Exercise Science (Caroline Ketcham, Eric Hall, Walter Bixby, Paul Miller and Kenneth Barnes), Department of Physical Therapy Education (Stephen Folger and Srikant Vallabhajosula) and Department of Sports Medicine (Kirtida Patel) and ESS alum Kelsey Evans '14 recently published articles in Journal of Visualized Experiments and International Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

The director of digital marketing at Sony Legacy and Elon University graduate was profiled in an April 2015 article titled “The Medium: How Tom Mullen Took a Stand for Emo.”

Eric Ashley Hairston, associate professor of English and director of the Center for Law and Humanities, recently lectured at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities on his continuing research into the interdisciplinary connection between classical studies and African American literature.  His first book on the subject was recently named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

A dozen School of Communications students traded part of their spring break to visit New York City and meet with several high-level broadcast news professionals, including Michael Radutzky, chair of Elon’s Communications Advisory Board.

Associate Professor Brian Lyons discussed how credit scores affect job applicants in an interview with “The Current.”

The Allied Churches of Alamance County has been collecting food donations through their "Stamp Out Hunger" campaign. They need help unloading these donations on May 11th.

An Elon University senior independent major in neuroscience made a surprising discovery when she tracked brain activity in dancers being shown how to perform a new task.