Archive for May 22, 2014

MJ Jacobsen, senior vice president of communications for the National Geographic Society, challenged the 38 “digital natives” in the Interactive Media Class of 2014 to never be complacent about learning new things.

With several construction projects underway on Elon's campus, motorists will want to be familiar with changes in parking and roadways. See this note for details.

The Interfaith Youth Core awarded $5,000 this spring to professors Jeffrey C. Pugh, Geoffrey D. Claussen and Amy L. Allocco to help in the development of an interfaith studies course sequence that might also serve as the precursor to a future minor in interfaith studies.

Natalie Sipala '15, early childhood minor and human service studies major, and Heidi Hollingsworth, assistant professor of education, co-authored an article in Milestones, a practitioner-oriented early care and education publication.

 

Heidi Hollingsworth, assistant professor of education, has published an article in the Early Childhood Education Journal, along with co-author Chih-Ing Lim, Investigator at the FPG Child Development Institute

 

Nathan Dean's thesis, "Do the Pecuniary Costs of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Negatively Affect Labor Market Outcomes?," has been awarded the top senior thesis by the economics faculty.

 

With guidance from faculty and staff in the Student Professional Development Center, strategic communications and political science double major Baron Smith '14 combined his interest in marketing with a passion for cars to secure a position with Volkswagen Group of America's Graduate Program.

The article is titled "Using Cultural Artifacts to Understand Self and Other: A Global Exchange in Elementary Classrooms."

Elon employees no longer need to be in front of a computer to get the information they need about their Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina insurance plan.