Archive for April 22, 2010

Four psychology majors presented their research April 17 at the 35th annual Carolinas Psychology Conference hosted by Meredith College.

Forty-five Elon University students presented original research April 15-17 at the 24th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Montana. It was the largest number of Elon students to ever make presentations at the same NCUR program.

As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments regarding a California police officer who claims a police department violated his employee privacy rights by reading text messages he sent, many of which were sexually explicit, on his company-owned pager, Elon Law professor Scott Gaylord told WGHP Fox 8 News the ruling could affect millions of people in the United States who also use company-issued phones and computers.

On, April 17, 2010, Dave Powell presented a paper co-authored with Joel Hollingsworth at the annual ACM Southeast Conference at the University of Mississippi. The title of the paper was "Teaching Web Programming Using the Google Cloud". This conference is the oldest continually running conference of the Association of Computing Machinery.

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, widely known as a "father of the Internet" and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, will be among the more than 60 speakers leading more than 20 different events at the three-day FutureWeb conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 28-30. The event is being organized by the Imagining the Internet Center of Elon's School of Communications, and will involve more than 40 Elon students, faculty and staff.

Paul Miller, professor of exercise science and director of the undergraduate research program, has been elected to serve a three-year term as a councilor in the Undergraduate Research Program Director's Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research.