Environmental Studies

The demonstration, which served as the opening of Campus Sustainability Week at Elon, showed how much of the campus' landfill waste could actually be recycled or composted.

Assistant Professor of Biology Jen Hamel and biology major and Elon College Fellow Alina Iwan ’19 presented research at Behaviour 2019, a joint meeting of the Animal Behavior Society and the International Conference on Ethology.

Chunco, associate professor of environmental studies, will spend the next two years as the Japheth E. Rawls professor for Undergraduate Research in Science.

President Connie Ledoux Book presented the medallion to a retired faculty member, a retired staff member and a long-time Cone Health executive and supporter of the School of Health Sciences. Faculty members selected for named professorships were also honored as the faculty/staff Planning Week got underway. 

The piece by Samantha DiRosa, associate professor of art and environmental studies, is included in the environmentally-themed exhibition that showcases five artists.

 

Hamel and co-author from the University of Missouri published an empirical study in a special issue of the journal.

Through this two-year program, five rising juniors will participate in a combination of coursework, undergraduate research and community engagement in multifaith contexts.

Angyal, professor emeritus of English and environmental studies, co-authored the biography of Berry, a Catholic priest and cultural historian who focused his scholarship on the evolution of the universe and humanity’s place within it.

This March 23 oral presentation by the professor of biology and environmental studies communicated the results of a five-year study examining the role of fish predators in preventing the establishment and spread of the invasive light bulb tunicate on submerged hard surfaces at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C.

A presentation on the challenges faced by the sustainability movement and democratic systems will be delivered in McKinnon Hall at 7:30 p.m.