Dan Anderson

President Leo M. Lambert has appointed Brooke Barnett, associate professor of communications, to a two-year term as Faculty Administrative Fellow and Assistant to the President. She will begin her duties June 1.

Provost Steven D. House has promoted Mary Wise to associate vice president for academic affairs and Peter Felten to assistant provost. Both promotions are effective June 1.

Catherine McNeela, professor of performing arts and coordinator of Elon University's music theatre program, has been named the university's William S. Long Professor, an honor named for the institution's first president. McNeela's appointment was made by President Leo M. Lambert in recognition of her 20 years of outstanding teaching, scholarship and leadership in developing Elon’s nationally recognized Music Theatre program.

Paige Kensrue, a women’s tennis standout, has been named one of eight postgraduate scholarship recipients for the 2009-10 academic year by the Southern Conference. She has been awarded the David Knight Graduate Scholarship, which is presented in honor of the late Dr. David Knight, long-time faculty athletics representative at UNC Greensboro.

Elon President Leo M. Lambert has received the 2010 Periclean Service Award from Project Pericles, the organization's highest honor. The award honors an individual for his or her visionary commitment to civic engagement and outstanding contributions to Project Pericles.

Elon's School of Communications has been named the 2010 recipient of the national Equity and Diversity Award by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

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Pranab Das, professor of physics, was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., during the school's 143rd annual Science and Spiritual Awareness Week. The week's theme was based on a recent book edited by Das, titled "Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality."

Edward Luce, Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and author of "In Spite of the Gods," challenged the legitimacy of mass news outlets April 1 during a question-and-answer session with Elon students.