Academics & Research

“Aoibhneas” is a full-length contemporary dance created by Hannah Feldhues, a senior with Arts Administration and Marketing majors, dance minor, and College Fellow at Elon University. This production is the final thesis of her undergraduate research project. Mentored by Assistant Professor in Dance, Renay Aumiller.

Their research shows that a higher representation of women in office results in more spending on primary education. That influence is greater when women hold positions of veto power or ability to set a legislative agenda.

The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.

One credit “Pathways to Design Thinking” course offered students the chance to deepen their understanding of the design thinking process by applying it to campus and community design challenges. 

Megan Noor ’21, a political science and policy studies major and Middle East studies minor, is addressing local perceptions of Muslims through an Honors Fellows research project.

The students shared their Honors thesis work during the association’s annual conference.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the recipients of the 10th annual Diversity and Inclusion Grants for the 2021-22 academic year.

Associate Professor Tracey Thurnes and Dianne Person, director of the Anatomical Gift Program presented “Better End-of-Life Conversations: A Mutually Beneficial Educational Experience.”

The article, “Eisenstein polynomials defining cyclic p-adic fields with minimal wild ramification” appears in a recent issue of the JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications.

Assistant Professors of Public Health Studies Stephanie Baker and Yanica Faustin launched the Health Equity and Racism (H.E.R.) Lab to analyze the roles of "race" and racism as the main contributors to racial health inequities.