Articles by Eric Townsend
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LSM faculty and students present at two conferences
December 11, 2008
Professors and students in the Department of Leisure and Sport
Management attended two conferences in recent months to present
research related to technology, media and college choice decisions.
Stephen Futrell makes presentations for Louisiana Music Educators Association
December 10, 2008
Stephen A. Futrell, professor and chair of the Department of Music,
made two presentations in November at the Louisiana Music Educators
Association state conference in Baton Rouge.
Randall Bowman presents at Library Instruction 2.0 Conference
December 10, 2008
Randall Bowman, a reference/instructor librarian at Elon University,
presented in November at the Library Instruction 2.0 Conference,
sponsored by the North Carolina Library Association’s College and
University Section, and held at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
T.H.E. Journal honors Elon alum for work with school technologies
December 10, 2008
Students, staff & faculty attend Kwanzaa Celebration
December 8, 2008
Three dozen students, staff and faculty filled the African-American
Resource Room on Dec. 5 for the inaugural Kwanzaa Celebration hosted by
the Multicultural Student Council and the African/African-American
Studies Program.
Elon team honored in global competition
December 8, 2008
Four Elon students have won recognition from Stanford University for
their entry in a global contest that challenged teams to create
something of value using nothing more than water bottles. Their video entry stemmed from the Elon Innovation Challenge, hosted locally by the
Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Elon University.
DPT candidates graduate Elon
December 8, 2008
Forty-five candidates in the university’s doctor of physical therapy program received
their degrees on Dec. 7, 2008, in a ceremony featuring remarks from
Elon President Leo M. Lambert and an address from Jody Shapiro Gandy,
director of academic/clinical education affairs at the American
Physical Therapy Association.
Elon junior medals at international jump rope tournament
December 8, 2008
Elon junior John Schimmelfing finished with a silver medal in Masters
at this summer's South African International Jump Rope Tournament in
Capetown, South Africa. The chemistry major earned gold medals in
freestyle and power and a bronze in speed.
Martha Peters presents at ABA conference
December 5, 2008
Marty Peters, a professor of legal education at the Elon University
School of Law, made a series of presentations in October at the
American Bar Association’s “Bar Passage Conference: Outcome Measures
and Student Achievement,” a national conference on bar pass issues.
Elon students ask NBC to interrupt the Super Bowl
December 4, 2008
Students who worked the front lines during Wilmington, North Carolina’s early switch to digital television are asking NBC president Jeff Zucker to interrupt the Super Bowl with a 30-second message from the Federal Communications Commission in the lead up to the nationwide transition on February 17, 2009.