Center for Research on Global Engagement

Three Elon professors are investigating how students can discover a sense of global interconnectedness in their own community.

With colleagues at AAC&U and Purdue University, Vandermaas-Peeler co-facilitated a workshop on mentoring undergraduate research in global contexts at the WISE conference sponsored by Wake Forest University.

The article is the third joint publication by Westerberg and Vandermaas-Peeler based on Westerberg's undergraduate research at Elon.

A hundred students recently gathered for a virtual panel discussion with international experts to learn about COVID-19 and vaccine distribution in Europe.

The Oct. 6 event was co-facilitated by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, director of the Center for Research on Global Engagement and professor of psychology, and involved multiple Elon faculty members.

Nine Elon faculty presented their scholarship at the Association of American Colleges & Universities 2020 Virtual Conference on Global Learning.

Elon alumna Leena Dahal and associate professors Mussa Idris and Vanessa Bravo collaborated on ethnographic research about post-disaster Nepal after the April 2015 earthquakes

Garner is one of two recipients for the competitive, national award, and the first Elon University student to receive it.

Garner, an Honors Fellow majoring in international and global studies, will receive the award from The Forum on Education Abroad during a ceremony in March.

Sandy Marshall, assistant professor of geography, was selected as the 2020-22 CSRCS Scholar to support his development of community-based research and multimedia projects.