Academics & Research

Amy Overman, assistant dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program, has received two grants totaling more than $500,000 to support collaborative neuroscience research with partners at Penn State University and N.C. A&T State University.

Pedagogies & Outcome: The Center for Design Thinking Presents at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) Symposium

The associate professor of accounting discusses a framework for using The Profit tv series to enhance student engagement in accounting courses.

The Oct. 6 event was co-facilitated by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, director of the Center for Research on Global Engagement and professor of psychology, and involved multiple Elon faculty members.

Hwayeon Ryu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, published a paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology on investigating macrophage polarization process in microenvironment.

Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history, presented “The Vercelli Rotolus: Images of the Acts of the Apostles the Arts of Imitation” at the conference, which was organized by the Center for Iconographic Studies and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, the Société des Bollandistes (Bruxelles), and Hagiotheca: Croatian Hagiography Society (Zagreb).

The article by Mathew Gendle, director of Project Pericles and professor of psychology, will appear in the next issue of the journal Tourism in Paradise.

Grace Garrett ’21, under the mentorship of Associate Professor of Biology Jen Uno, is examining the gut microbiome of the zebrafish to address unanswered questions about the fertility and reproductive health of humans.

High school students from throughout North Carolina had the opportunity to hear from many Elon presenters on topics such as podcasting, design and social media.