Love School of Business

Mary Gowan, who has been dean of Elon University’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business since 2007, will step down as dean at the conclusion of the 2010-11 academic year. She will remain as a faculty member in the Love School of Business, teaching courses as a professor of management.

Steve DeLoach, a professor of economics, presented results from his newest research project at RWTH Aachen University on May 3, 2011. The paper, "Discouraging Workers: Estimating Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks on Search Intensity of Unemployed," is co-authored by assistant professor Mark Kurt.

Four Elon University students from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business have reached the “final four” of the IMA Student Case Competition and will travel to Orlando in June for the finals.

Research shows how the growth of a nation’s economy harms its air quality, at least until citizens live comfortably enough to demand change. Does the same hold true for water pollution? Elon University senior Stephanie Franz examined that question, and her work is the last to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on undergraduate research presented during CELEBRATE! 2011.

Steve DeLoach, professor of economics, gave a research presentation to faculty at the Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowia on April 8.

Twenty-four students were inducted into Elon’s Pi chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) during the Spring Initiation Banquet, held April 11 in the Isabella Cannon Room.

Associate Professor of Economics Jim Barbour’s paper "Schneider’s ‘Singede Steine’: La lectura musical de la iconografía en el claustro de Sant Cugat del Vallés," has been published in Círculo Románico, the journal of the Spanish Centro de Estudios del Romantico, Madrid.

John Burbridge, Tina Das, and Casey DiRienzo have published the book chapter "The Role of Trust in the Global Acceptance of E-Government" in the reference book Information Communication Technologies and the Virtual Public Sphere: Impacts of Network Structures on Civil Societies.