Love School of Business

When Nick Igdalsky '99 visits Daytona International Speedway this weekend to begin his first full season in the ARCA Racing Series, he’ll find himself running against a familiar name in motorsports: Danica Patrick, an international sensation making her debut in stock car racing in the same field as the Elon University alum.

A 2007 graduate of Elon University represented North Carolina in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas on Jan. 30. Katherine Southard, a double major in business administration and dance, won the North Carolina contest in June.

Kerrii B. Anderson, former president and CEO of Wendy's, will be featured as the Love School of Business' Legends of Business speaker on March 4, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. in the LaRose Digital Theatre. The event is open to all Elon students, faculty, and staff. A reception will follow.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was one of three judges this month for the 2010 National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at a conference hosted by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Jan. 10, 2010, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

Martha and Spencer Love School of Business faculty members Neeraj Gupta and Christy Benson are leading Elon business students on the Winter Term Study Abroad course titled Business in the Pacific Rim.

Learn more about the Elon MBA program at a special Open House on Jan. 12

Steve DeLoach, a professor of economics, spoke Jan. 8 with News 14 Carolina about the overall health of the American economy and when the public can expect to see job growth and lower unemployment figures.

Improving the health of children in Third World nations may be as simple as offering $40 loans to parents who want to start a small business. That finding and more was shared this week at SURF by Erika Lamanna ’09, whose interest in developing economies is the latest topic in a series of E-net profiles to highlight undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2009.