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Psychology lab at Elon University seeks parent participants for online study about infant motor development
January 6, 2021
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.

Mark Cryan, Andrew Scarlata ’19 examine the Dominican Republic’s success developing MLB players
January 4, 2021
Before their research was published this fall by the North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance and Sport Management, it began nearly five years ago as a Spring Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) project.

Chad Awtrey publishes research article with REU student and faculty collaborators
December 9, 2020
Based on results obtained during his 2018 REU, Associate Professor of Mathematics Chad Awtrey has published a research article in the most recent issue of Involve, a Journal of Mathematics.

National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation grants to advance Overman’s neuroscience research
October 20, 2020
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.

Nine Elon faculty present at the virtual AAC&U Global Learning conference
October 12, 2020
Nine Elon faculty presented their scholarship at the Association of American Colleges & Universities 2020 Virtual Conference on Global Learning.

Chad Awtrey and alumnus publish research on symmetries of polynomial roots
September 4, 2020
The paper titled "Galois groups of even sextic polynomials" appears in the most recent issue of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin.

Virtual internship affirms for Rebecca Carranza ’22 that she belongs in biology
September 3, 2020
Now a budding scientist and entomologist with the Hamel Lab, Carranza is a first-generation, Latinx college student who once questioned her calling to science. Growing up, she rarely saw scientists who looked like her represented. Her summer internship raised the profile of an unheralded female entomologist from the 20th century and forged connections in her field.

Elon alumna earns Phi Kappa Phi graduate fellowship
September 1, 2020
Nicole Plante '20 earned an $8,500 fellowship in support of her graduate school work in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University.
First summer for joint NSF-funded Elon, N.C. A&T summer research experience concludes with student presentations
August 18, 2020
The summer research program on mathematical biology was held for the first time and completely virtually.

A Celebration of Undergraduate Research: Updated site showcases SURE program work
August 6, 2020
The online site serves as a platform for students to share about their undergraduate research and what the experience has meant to them.