Academics & Research

Thirteen undergraduates and one alumnus presented undergraduate research at four regional and national conferences in 2023-24.

Kenneth Brown and colleagues led a conference session on first-generation graduate student success at the inaugural Gardner Institute Graduate Student Experience conference that is helping to shape higher education’s approach to graduate student education. 

An annual awards program held April 25 recognized the academic success of graduating seniors and the teaching, research and service of faculty and staff in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

With researchers from Virginia Tech’s Embodied Brain Lab, six dancers guided by Assistant Professor Courtney Liu are studying brain activity and how to achieve the flow state. "Finding Flow on SURF Day" is at 6 p.m. April 30 in Roberts Studio Theatre.

New members of the nation's oldest multidisciplinary honor society for academic excellence and service were installed in an April 23 ceremony.

Aaron Isbell, a client executive at Snowflake, shared his journey from staying late at school with his teacher mother to growing as a leader at SAS and ServiceNow with Elon students.

Maya Simmons ’24 won first place in the 2024 Phillip L. Carret Thomas Jefferson Essay Contest. Kenna Dubraski ’24 won second place, and Lola Moore ’26 and Claire Lancaster ’24 tied for third.

The professor of strategic communications, who begins her new role on June 1, will oversee the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and provide support for assessment.

Research into how many of the measures implemented during the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social interactions and relationships has produced a range of publication by Elon researchers.

The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.