Undergraduate Research

IRIS was established in 2018 to give students from smaller institutions without the resources of major universities the opportunity to present their research and interact with students from other colleges and universities.

Angela Myers (PWR '21) published an article on user-centered research in a refereed, national journal dedicated to undergraduate research in rhetoric and writing.

With colleagues at AAC&U and Purdue University, Vandermaas-Peeler co-facilitated a workshop on mentoring undergraduate research in global contexts at the WISE conference sponsored by Wake Forest University.

The article is the third joint publication by Westerberg and Vandermaas-Peeler based on Westerberg's undergraduate research at Elon.

The $7,500 Leadership Prize supports sustained, mentored and community-based research projects undertaken by Elon undergraduates.

The online study aims to understand parent beliefs about infant motor development and the impact on infants’ motor behaviors. Eligible participants are first-time parents of infants aged 1-7 months living anywhere in the USA.

Before their research was published this fall by the North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance and Sport Management, it began nearly five years ago as a Spring Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) project.

Based on results obtained during his 2018 REU, Associate Professor of Mathematics Chad Awtrey has published a research article in the most recent issue of Involve, a Journal of Mathematics.

Amy Overman, assistant dean of Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program, has received two grants totaling more than $500,000 to support collaborative neuroscience research with partners at Penn State University and N.C. A&T State University.

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