Archive for April 15, 2011

Sometimes silly and sometimes serious, but always as "Satan,” Elon University professor Jeffrey C. Pugh read excerpts from his new book Thursday as part of the 2010-11 Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture before taking questions about the way evil is described in Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office.

Four new majors will be offered to Elon University students starting in the fall. Early childhood education is an addition to the School of Education’s programs; information science replaces the current computer information systems major in the Department of Computing Sciences; and public health studies, and arts administration, are both interdisciplinary majors within Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

Yale University professor Jacob Hacker, a nationally recognized figure known as the "father of the public option," believes the passage of legislation in 2010 was the "easy part" of reforming health care in the United States, and during his March 31 visit to Elon University he explained the challenges that remain in making sure all Americans have access to health insurance while reducing overall medical costs.

Elon alumna Jenny Vanyur and associate professor Cindy Fair have had an article, "Sexual Coercion, Verbal Aggression, and Condom Use Consistency Among College Students," published in the most recent volume of the Journal of American College Health.

For Leigh-Anne Royster, coordinator for personal health programs and community well-being at Elon, there are no typical days at the office.

Associate professor Cindy Fair and Lauren Taylor '10 presented research at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, where more than 20,000 attendees converged for the July 18-23 event.

Kirsten Doehler, an assistant professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, published an article with Lisa M. Hooper, Scyatta A. Wallace, and Natalie J. Hannah.

Crystal Anderson, an associate professor of English and coordinator of the American Studies Program and Faculty Fellow for the Multicultural Center, presented her research on Orientalism and the Harlem Renaissance at the 2011 MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States) and USACLALS (United States Association for Commonwealth LIterature and Language Studies) Joint Conference in Boca Raton, Fla.

Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler and Larissa Ferretti '09 made two presentations at the recent meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Montreal, Canada.

Twenty-four students were inducted into Elon’s Pi chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) during the Spring Initiation Banquet, held April 11 in the Isabella Cannon Room.