Faculty & Staff

Thomas Erdmann, profesor of music, had three 6,000-word articles featured on the cover of the September/October 2012 issue of Saxophone Journal. They are on The Rippingtons and chart-topping Los Angeles based saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa, University of Illinois saxophone and music professor J. Michael Holmes, and University of South Florida saxophone and music professor Jack Wilkins.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Chad Awtrey presented two talks at MathFest, the national meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, in Madison, WI., on Aug. 1-4, 2012.

Elon Communications professor Max Negin is working as a digital media manager for NBC in London for the Summer Olympics.

Mary Gowan, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a co-organizer and presenter for a Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on Aug. 3, 2012, at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management held in Boston.

Tina Das, professor of economics, and Cassandra DiRienzo, associate professor of economics and associate dean of the Love School of Business, recently had their research about terrorist risk and income published.

Associate Professor Lawrence Garber’s research examining the association between learning and learning style in the playing of functional marketing games has been published in the Marketing Education Review.

Elon faculty and staff can get full details of Aug. 20-27 activities at www.elon.edu/planningweek.

Communications associate professor Michelle Ferrier hosted entrepreneurs from venture capital, accelerator and media startup firms in a roundtable discussion on teaching media entrepreneurship at the UNITY 2012 conference Aug. 2-3 in Las Vegas.