Awards & Recognitions

Communications assistant professor Phillip Motley was selected as the 2012-13 Service-Learning Faculty Research Scholar.

Elon was among four institutions to be honored for technology projects significant to their campuses and communities.

School of Communications Associate Dean Don Grady was one of the top two vote-getters on a four-person ballot to be elected as a representative to the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Paula DiBiasio, Assistant Professor - Physical Therapy Education, received $2000 from The Walking Classroom Institute for Move, Listen & Learn: Integrating Language Arts Instruction with Physical Activity.

Kevin O'Mara, professor of management, received $2,500 from Small Business Technology Development Center to become a Faculty Liason.

Communications assistant professor Phillip Motley was selected to participate in the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Collaborative Writing Groups program.

David Vandermast, associate professor of biology, was re-elected to the chair of the Southeastern Chapter of the Ecological Society of America.

Communications assistant professor Sang Nam received a $40,000 community-based participatory research grant to study health care access among Korean Americans in the Triad.

Dan Evans, assistant professor of physics, received $25,000 from NASA: Chandra X-ray Observatory Center for The First Spatially Resolved Spectrum of an AGN Outflow in an Early Type Galaxy: A Deep HETG Observation of MRK 3.

Darris Means, associate director of Elon Academy, received $19,891 from North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) for Successful Transitions: Supporting Underrepresented Students to Succeed in High School, College and in Life.