Psychology

The online study aims to understand parent beliefs about infant motor development and the impact on infants’ motor behaviors. Eligible participants are first-time parents of infants aged 1-7 months living anywhere in the USA.

Joey Burns ’22 credits his Horizons National Odyssey Scholarship for providing him life-changing opportunities and “comfort at the end of the day.” Increasing scholarship funding to prepare graduates the world needs is the top priority of the $250 million Elon LEADS Campaign.

The research was published in the journal Infancy as a first-authored peer-reviewed article.

The online ethnography mini-grants support student projects that used contemporary technologies of connectedness to examine communities and cultures.

Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences has recognized seven faculty and staff for excellence in teaching, mentoring, scholarship, service and leadership.

Amy Overman, assistant dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program, has received two grants totaling more than $500,000 to support collaborative neuroscience research with partners at Penn State University and N.C. A&T State University.

The article by Mathew Gendle, director of Project Pericles and professor of psychology, will appear in the next issue of the journal Tourism in Paradise.

The Service Learning Faculty Scholars program for the first time will include two cohorts of faculty and staff members ready to further integrate the service-learning pedagogy into the Elon curriculum.

The talk was titled, “Raising Super Women…and Emotional Eaters (?): Exploring the relationship between socialized coping responses to discrimination and disordered eating for collegiate Black women.”

The theme of the conference was “Hindsight is 20/20: Using Reflection for Assessment, Program Excellence, and Student Success.”