Archive for July 11, 2011

Associate Professor Lynne Kurdziel-Formato spent June 30 through July 5 teaching classes in theatre dance for Dance Masters of America at their National Convention, held in Orlando, Fla.

Associate Professor Lynne Kurdziel-Formato recently returned from Denmark where she directed and choreographed a production of Kander, Ebb and Fosse's CHICAGO for Det Danske Musical Academi in Fredericia, Denmark. She will return during the 2012 Winter Term to direct a professional production of Pasek & Paul's EDGES for the FredericiaTeater.

Caregivers can face special challenges when helping clients with emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities. Leigh Ann Stutts ’11 explores these challenges and exposes gaps in caregiver training – including the need to learn forgiveness – in a recent edition of the The Open Mind, the newsletter of the Durham, N.C., chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Elon University President Leo M. Lambert was one of two people honored this month by the State University of New York at Geneseo Alumni Association for his commitment to the association, college and higher education.

As the assistant director of Urban Promise Ministry's Camp Saved, Laura Dellicker '12 works hard to put smiles on the faces of underprivileged children in Camden, N.J., a poverty-stricken suburb of Philadelphia. In her second year working with Urban Promise, Dellicker blogs about her experiences at http://encounteringjoy.wordpress.com.

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, is living for part of July 2011 in a campsite for people displaced by flooding in central North Dakota.

This week, Elon Career Services' LinkedIn profile reached 3,000 1st degree connections with an expanded network of 11,220,000 people.

Amy L. Allocco, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, presented a paper titled “Making Mountains out of Anthills at a South Indian Goddess Temple” at a conference organized around the theme “Mountains in the Religions of South and Southeast Asia: Place, Culture, and Power” in the capital city of Thimphu in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Elon University professors, students and alumni continue to make news this summer through their research and campus activities. Notable in recent weeks was regional media coverage of Elon University School of Law's full accreditation from the American Bar Association, regional stories and broadcasts on Elon's new head women's basketball coach, and mention of the Elon University Poll by the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

Ryan Petitti '11 and Mike Iszard '11 presented a poster on June 9 titled "A Study of the Impact of Injuries on the 2010 Red Sox Performance" at the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) 41st Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif.