Awards & Recognitions

Elon University School of Communications senior lecturer Randy Piland was one of two higher education instructors honored with the Robin F. Garland Educator Award from the National Press Photographers Association.

Katie Nash, archivist and special collections librarian, was recently selected to serve on the Incorporation Committee with the U.S. Chapter of Archivists without Borders (AWB).

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Chad Awtrey has been awarded an external grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM).

Peter Felten, assistant provost, director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, and associate professor of history, and Jodean Schmiederer, assistant dean of students, received a $7,500 program development grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities/Bringing Theory to Practice for "Advancing Civic Engagement and Cultural Competence: Using ePortfolios to Assess the VALUE of Student Learning."

Kirstin Ringelberg, associate professor of art history and coordinator of Elon's LGBTQ Office, with assistance from student Laura Lee Sturm, was awarded $1,630 from the Alliance for Full Acceptance to support sending student Spectrum members to LGBTQQ conferences.

Communications assistant professor Lucinda Austin and associate professors Lee Bush and Barbara Miller have been awarded the national 2012 PRIDE Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Public Relations Education” for their publications in the 2011 Special Issue on Pedagogy in the journal Public Relations Review.