Faculty & Staff

This year’s annual conference was held in Philadelphia and provided Elon faculty with an opportunity to showcase their areas of research, interest and expertise.

Planning Week marks the beginning of the academic year as faculty and staff prepare to welcome back students to the Elon campus. Look at some of the familiar favorites this year and also some new additions to Planning Week.

Elon University's annual school supply drive will return on Aug. 16, continuing throughout Planning Week.

Ayesh Awad '24, Pagnapech Ngoun '26, Murilo Ferreira Lopes '27, Nicolas Alvarez '27 and five faculty Emily Elrod, Kristen Mazur, Brittany Riggs, Hwayeon Ryu and Aaron Trocki presented at MathFest, the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America on August 7-10, 2024 in Indianapolis.

Lund, the dean of the School of Health Sciences, shared her expertise during a panel discussion focused on technological advances in education and health care.

Elon’s Office of Information Technology held a summer retreat focused on understanding how AI could potentially be integrated into campus operations, exploring tools like Microsoft Copilot, MagicSchool and ChatGPT to enhance productivity and teaching. The event highlighted AI’s potential to streamline work and personalize education.

The article shares an open access research tool for studying animal communication that was developed as part of Evora’s Elon Lumen project. The work was done by Evora, collaborators from the University of Missouri and Curtin University and Hamel. The article appears in a special issue of the journal Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

The associate professor of mathematics was interviewed by The Burlington Times-News about her work on COVID-19.

In recent months, the assistant professor of communication design has published and presented research examining how to communicate algorithmic bias through training data, how patients view their interactions with individualizing AI doctors, and how users perceive autoplay features on video platforms.

Elon has a new program for faculty and staff to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom.