Elon College, the College of Arts & Sciences

A New York-based nonprofit has awarded a $200,000 grant to Elon University and Wofford College for a joint project to assist departments at both schools in better measuring how students learn and to help assess efforts by both institutions to strengthen diversity and global engagement.

A team of Elon University researchers will examine the effects of concussions in student-athletes using a grant of nearly $17,000 awarded this month by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

Eleven Exercise Science majors and seven faculty from the Department of Exercise Science attended the 39th Annual Southeast American College of Sports Medicine meeting in Greenville, S.C., over the first weekend of February.

Ann J. Cahill, professor and chair in the Department of Philsophy, has published her new book, Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics. The book has been released by Routledge as part of its Research in Gender and Society series.

This month, Elon students from Dave Gammon's Science Without Borders class presented museum-style science demos to approximately 100 fourth-graders from Elon Elementary School.

Barbara Gordon, an associate professor of English, made appearances on local morning television programs this fall to speak about the publication of her co-authored book, Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance, published by Duke University Press.

Alison Morrison-Shetlar, dean of Elon College, was the keynote speaker at the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) held in Ashveille, N.C., Sept. 12-14, 2010.

Faculty members Angela Lewellyn Jones, Beth Warner and Pam Kiser have had two publications on social entrepreneurship and service-learning.

Fourteen Elon University alumni in the Class of 2010 will re-enter the classroom this fall as educators with Teach for America, a national nonprofit that recruits recent college graduates to help erase what it describes as educational inequity found in many urban and rural low-income communities.