Academics & Research

The third annual AMTE-NC (Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators - North Carolina) Pre-service Teacher poster session was held virtually November 9 - November 13th with over 100 preservice teachers representing institutions across the state of North Carolina.

Assistant Professor Cora S. Palfy presented at the National Joint Conference of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory held Nov. 14-15.

Professor of Music and Artist in Residence Jon Metzger has had his method book, "The Art and Language of Jazz Vibes," enter into its sixth printing of its second edition this month. The text is in use by percussion and jazz studies students throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and South America.

Over the course of the fall semester, Elon's Center for Writing Excellence has adapted to a changing world in order to continue offering the best possible writing support to students, faculty and staff.

The president of the North Carolina Democratic Party Native American Caucus, Crystal Cavalier, highlighted the Native American vote in the 2020 election during the Nov. 2 discussion.

The Heldt Prize is awarded annually to the best book in Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian studies from any academic discipline.

Liam Lindy ’21 and Adam Tommer ’21 presented their analysis and recommendations for a case examining the geopolitical tug of war between the European Union, China and the U.S.

Hwayeon Ryu, assistant professor of mathematics, published a paper in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering on investigating time-delayed excitatory-inhibitory neural networks.

The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.

Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and author of "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity," spoke to the Elon community virtually about his most recent book.