Archive for March 1, 2010

Nine Elon Law students and nine MBA students from Elon's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business participated in a first-time collaboration through an international business course that included meetings with top business and law leaders in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.

Bird Stasz, Sierra Ramondi (senior anthropology) and Erin Deans (senior Teaching Fellow elementary education) presented the results of their research, “A good idea but: Vanishing rural schools in Appalachia.” The research, funded through summer research funds and sponsored by PERCS, is an ethnographic study of two rural schools in Macon County N.C., one bound for consolidation and one not bound.

Professor Andy Angyal and Professor Emeritus John G. Sullivan presented at a conference, The Legacy of Thomas Berry Continuing His Work, held on Friday and Saturday Feb. 26-27, 2010, in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Christy Benson, assistant professor of business law and ethics, and Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship, presented Feb. 25 in the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Webinar Series.

Clyde Ellis, professor of History, gave a public lecture Friday Feb. 26 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in conjunction with the university's 2010 colloquium series, "New Directions in Folklore."

David M. Crowe, professor of history, presented a paper, "Slobodan Milosevic: 'Desk Murderer,' 'Architect of Genocide,' or Victim of 'Victors' Justice?" at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law conference, "The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy," Feb. 17-21.