Awards & Recognitions

Elon President Leo M. Lambert presented the medallion to five retired faculty and staff members for their meritorious service to the university during an event marking the start of a new academic year. The university also recognized four endowed professorships and two longtime professors were named Distinguished University Professors. 

Kathy Matera, a professor of chemistry, will spend the next two years as the Japheth E. Rawls Professor for Undergraduate Research in Science. 

India Johnson, an assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded a small research grant through the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and has co-authored a recent paper in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology.

The endowed professorship is funded by the estate of the late Isabella Cannon ’24, a former mayor of Raleigh, N.C.

The professorship honors senior full professors for their career achievements in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service to Elon.

The grant awarded to Carrie Seigler with the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life will support this year's Ripple Conference.

The award is given to advisers yearly in recognition for their contributions to their campus media outlets.

As an MLA Bibliography Fellow for 2017-20, Senior Lecturer in English Paula Patch and her students will index materials from current and past issues of five composition and rhetoric journals for the MLA International Bibliography, a leading scholarly database in the modern languages.

The Acorn Accolade Technology Award of Excellence recognizes one IT employee each month for exemplary work.

Chris Richardson, assistant professor of physics at Elon, and a collaborator at UNC will receive the equivalent of $10,000 in computational resources from a National Science Foundation-funded program.