Academics & Research

Vanessa Bravo, assistant professor in the School of Communications, published the refereed research paper “Engaging the Diaspora: El Salvador and Costa Rica´s Use of Social Media to Connect with their Diaspora Communities in the United States” in the academic journal Global Media Journal – American Edition.

Cherrel Miller Dyce, assistant professor in the School of Education, was the keynote speaker for The North Carolina Council of Education Opportunity Programs (NCCEOP) 40th Annual Fall Conference, held in Greensboro, NC.

Elon Music Professor Victoria Fischer Faw presented a lecture titled “Béla Bartok as Student-and Teacher-and Student” at the annual conference of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association Nov. 3, 2012 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor of English Cassandra Kircher gave a nonfiction reading on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Professor Charity Johansson, along with colleagues Teresa J. Carter, Laura P. Gogia, Elizabeth P. Marlowe, & Mark T. Nelson, of VCU, presented a workshop at the 10th Annual International Transformative Learning Conference, Nov 1-4, 2012, in San Francisco.

Dr. Ringelberg's essay "The Faked Pain of the Artist: Empathy or Sympathy, Compassion or Concealment?" was published this month in the book Representations of Pain in Art & Visual Culture.

Mary Gowan, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, recently published a research study in the Journal of Managerial Psychology.