Elon Alumni

Associate professor Cindy Fair and Lauren Taylor '10 presented research at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, where more than 20,000 attendees converged for the July 18-23 event.

Associate professor Cindy Fair and Elon alumna Taylor Morrison '10 have co-authored an article published in Midwifery based on Morrison's Elon College Fellows project, “The relationship between prenatal control, expectations, experienced control, and birth satisfaction among primiparous women."

Wade Barnes '04, vice president for consumer lending at First Mariner Bank in Baltimore, Md., was named to the inaugural "20 in Their Twenties" list selected by the Maryland Daily Record, a statewide business and legal newspaper.

Rebecca Johnson Mastin '93, principal of Mulberry Elementary School in Wilkes County, N.C., received the county's principal of the year award on March 28. Mastin will now compete with principals of the year from more than 20 school systems in northwestern North Carolina for regional principal of the year.

A record 1,394 young alumni made gifts to Elon as part of the IGNITE Challenge in March, exceeding the 1,200 donor goal and helping to bring in $480,939 to the university. By surpassing the donor goal, young alumni enabled Elon to receive bonus gifts totaling $40,000 from Elon alumna and trustee Kerrii Anderson '79 and a group of nine young alumni. Elon is grateful to all young alumni who participated in the Challenge.

Music theatre alumnus Rob Marnell '06 was featured in the March 31 edition of The News Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. He spoke with reporter Sheryl Krieg about his role as Alex the Lion in a touring production of "Madagascar Live" based on the hit animated film.

Keiko Sudani '08, who teaches at a school in Tokyo, has sent a message to the Elon community describing her experiences in the March 11 earthquake. Keiko is the sister of Asami Sudani '06 who previously shared an account of her experiences. Read this note for Keiko's letter to Elon.

Iris Versmissen '10 was recently awarded the North Carolina Science Teachers Association Outstanding Elementary School Student Teacher of the Year Award. Versmissen was an elementary education Teaching Fellow with a Spanish minor.