Faculty & Staff

Elon Communications professor Max Negin is working as a digital media manager for NBC in London for the Summer Olympics.

Mary Gowan, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a co-organizer and presenter for a Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on Aug. 3, 2012, at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management held in Boston.

Tina Das, professor of economics, and Cassandra DiRienzo, associate professor of economics and associate dean of the Love School of Business, recently had their research about terrorist risk and income published.

Associate Professor Lawrence Garber’s research examining the association between learning and learning style in the playing of functional marketing games has been published in the Marketing Education Review.

Elon faculty and staff can get full details of Aug. 20-27 activities at www.elon.edu/planningweek.

Communications associate professor Michelle Ferrier hosted entrepreneurs from venture capital, accelerator and media startup firms in a roundtable discussion on teaching media entrepreneurship at the UNITY 2012 conference Aug. 2-3 in Las Vegas.

Jeff Clark, professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, presented at the Mathematical Association of America's MathFest on Aug. 3 in Madison, Wis.

Buffie Longmire-Avital, an assistant professor in psychology, presented her research poster titled "How Sociocultural Views Influence Perceptions of Sex Partner Availability for Black Women" at the annual conference for the American Psychological Association in Orlando, Fla., Aug. 2-5.

Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, has been awarded patent #8,225,224 for large display window management.