Multifaith Scholars

Three Elon faculty present on mentoring undergraduate research in global contexts at the AAC&U Global Learning Conference on October 7-9, 2021

In this article, multiple faculty program leaders reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic forced a reimagining of the student global engagement opportunities they manage at Elon.

The Critical Language Scholarships will give Elon students Sarah Jane McDonald '21 and Holly Cardoza '23 the opportunity to study foreign languages deemed critical to U.S. diplomacy and outreach.

Through a two-year fellows program, the five rising juniors of this interdisciplinary cohort will participate in specialized coursework, faculty-mentored undergraduate research, campus leadership, and community engagement in multifaith contexts.

The journalism major has turned her undergraduate research into a passion project, and it won a prestigious Hearst Journalism Award.

6 Elon undergraduates presented at the virtual American Academy of Religion's Southeastern regional conference with the theme of Race, Religion, and Health: Epidemics of Disparity

The conference, hosted by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, will be held online Feb. 19-20.

The lecture, “Living with the Dead in Hindu South India,” draws on Allocco’s current ethnographic research project and was sponsored by the Asia-Orient Institute.

Nine Elon faculty presented their scholarship at the Association of American Colleges & Universities 2020 Virtual Conference on Global Learning.

Brian Pennington and Amy Allocco are joined by faculty from the Twin Cities to identify best practices in a new teaching and research field.