Academics & Research

The TOM Fellowship Program is a nine-month international program that supports campus leaders, students and faculty in leading “communities” of students who use their engineering and design skills to co-create solutions.

The Elon Innovation Council is now accepting proposals for the 2025-26 Elon Innovation Grants.

The assistant professor of sport management explores how the International Volleyball Federation enforced decades of sex testing after the 1972 Olympics – finding no fraud yet reinforcing rigid gender norms that shape current debates on fairness and inclusion.

This research was included in the most recent issue of the "American Journal of Psychology"

Baris Kesgin, associate professor of political science and public policy, and Katherine Graham McCormick ‘24 published in article that develops an average quantitative profile of American women political leaders’ beliefs about politics.

As part of the award, Sandy Marshall will co-design and co-teach a transatlantic course pairing Elon’s “Foundations of Peace & Conflict Studies” with “Atrocities, Conflict, Human Rights,” led by Peter Manning of the University of Bath.

Research by Assistant Professor Amanda McGrosky finds that weight gain is due mainly to overeating and not decreased physical activity.

At Elon Law Review’s 2025 symposium, “Breaking News: First Amendment on Trial,” scholars and journalists explored free speech, press rights, social media and AI’s growing influence on information access.

Sabrina Perkins and Anna Grace Gilbert '27 attended and presented research conducted in the Infant Development Lab at a professional conference in Prague, Czech Republic, earlier this month.

Hwayeon Ryu, associate professor of mathematics, published a paper in Mathematical Biosciences on investigating bistable dynamics arising from macrophage–tumor interactions in the tumor microenvironment.