Dan Anderson

How will the Internet change the workplace, family life, education and many other foundations of society between 2004 and 2014? Significantly in a future that’s up for grabs – that’s the view of the nearly 1,300 technology experts and scholars who responded to The Future of the Internet I survey.

Andrew Haile brings to Elon Law experience in transactional, tax and securities work as a partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard in Greensboro, N.C. He served as an adjunct professor at the law school for the 2008 spring semester and, prior to joining his firm, clerked for the Honorable Frank W. Bullock, Jr., former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Catherine Dunham, associate professor of law, is teaching two summer courses for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) at the organization's headquarters in Louisville, Colo.

Victor Streib, visiting professor in the Elon University School of Law, was a guest on "The State of Things," WUNC radio's statewide program, on July 16. Streib discussed women and crime on the program with host Frank Stasio.

Thomas Noble joins the Elon Law faculty full-time after previous service to the school as an adjunct professor, teaching courses in legal writing and trial advocacy. He previously worked with the Greensboro firm of Tuggle Duggins & Meschan, P.A., where he concentrated on commercial litigation and labor and employment matters.

Leary Davis, founding dean of the Elon University School of Law, will step down as dean on August 1. He will remain with the school as founding dean emeritus and professor of law, and will continue to teach courses in the law school.

Faculty members in Elon’s philosophy department have collaborated to produce a special issue of a national academic journal focused on the theme “Philosophy as Transformative Practice.”

An opinion article by Mathew Gendle, assistant professor of psychology, explores the faculty challenge of doing scholarly research while carrying a full teaching load. Gendle argues that undergraduate teaching may help the scholarly process rather than hinder it.

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in Elon’s School of Communications, has been named the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Educator Award in the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).