Academics & Research

Christina Benson, assistant professor of business law in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has presented and published a paper addressing the extent to which the United Nations and international economic organizations are permitted to support substantial economic restructuring and reform in order to promote international trade and "rule of law" in post-conflict countries.

Associate Professor Michelle Ferrier of the School of Communications contributed to the recent Federal Communications Commission inquiry into the media needs of the American public communities through a report and literature review to inform new policy development.

The program was held at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University from July 20-22, 2012.

Mark Archambault, chair and program director of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies, recently served as mentoring author of a peer-reviewed article written by former student, Darin Franceschini MMS, PA-C.

Mark Archambault, Chair, Program Director and Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Studies, recently collaborated on research presented at the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AAME) 2011 Conference in Vienna, Austria.

Associate Professor Jim Brown led a workshop for full time and Western volunteer teachers in schools for Burmese migrants and refugees along the Thai-Burma border.

David Copeland, A.J. Fletcher Professor in the School of Communications, has published The News Media.

A triptych of photographs from Associate Professor of Digital Art and Environmental Studies Samantha DiRosa's body of work Gathering Dust: Sediment/Sentiment, was included in K Space Contemporary's group exhibition on the theme of water, titled Watered Down: The Ebb and the Flow, in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Tantara Records is releasing a new album of music for flute and orchestra that includes a 20-minute flute concerto composed by associate professor Todd Coleman, coordinator of the Elon University Music Technology Program.

As part of an exiting new online musical collaboration, associate professor Todd Coleman's "Wind Dance," a musical composition for a 12-part flute choir, has been selected by Troubadour Music to be collaboratively recorded over the Internet by flute players throughout the world, dubbed the "New World Flutet."