Academics & Research

Jessie Moore, Director of Elon’s Center for Engaged Learning, published a new book Understanding Writing Transfer that features work from Elon’s Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer research seminar.

During winter 2017, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty partnered to educate students on sexual assault, child abuse, human trafficking and women offenders and to collaborate with community organizations. Outreach activities were supported by a Health Promotion Mini-Grant and the CAS Small Enhancement Grant.

The project, now on display, is from a Winter Term class that examined the music of the two decades, fromThe Beatles to the Bee Gees, and hippies to Nixon. 

Political Science Professor Laura Roselle has published the book, "Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations," with the University of Michigan Press.  

Mark Cryan, assistant professor of sport and event management, has published an article examining the operation of an after-school youth soccer program for at-risk children.

The partnership was launched in 2015, and pairs Elon students with elementary school teachers and afterschool programs. 

Presented by Frau Fiber’s archivist and biographer, Carole Frances Lung.  
Lung will present 10 years of Frau Fiber’s persistence, encouraging the visitors, residents and citizens of America to exchange their leisure time for personal production of textile and apparel goods.

Religious Studies Professor Geoffrey Claussen's chapter was published in Kaddish, edited by David Birnbaum and Martin S. Cohen

The 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest annual mathematics conference in the world, was held Jan. 4-7 in Atlanta.

In a Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research article, Assistant Professor Brandon Sheridan examines student television and music preferences to see if they align with the resources available to economics educators.