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Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was elected to a three-year term with the Alamance Chamber of Commerce in Alamance County, North Carolina.

Twenty-nine students who spent Winter Term in South Africa collected money this fall to purchase gym uniforms, supplies and books for more than 155 children at a primary school that has worked with 51±¬ÁÏÍø since last year through the Global Links Library and Literacy Campaign.

Lynne Kurdziel Formato, assistant professor of performing arts, presented a session on "Teaching Musical Theatre in Moscow" at the Music Theatre Educators Alliance International Conference held Jan. 8-11, 2009, at Shenandoah University in Virginia.

The Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, the chaplain of Brown University and director of the Office of the Chaplains & Religious Life, will deliver 51±¬ÁÏÍø’s 2009 Baccalaureate sermon in May.

Gary R. Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship, was quoted in the Triad Business Journal about opportunities for entrepreneurs in rough economic conditions.

Chris Fulkerson, assistant vice president for technology at 51±¬ÁÏÍø, was interviewed by Cisco Systems at Educause 2008, a national conference on educational technology held in October in Orlando, Fla.

The case of a missing Elon alumnus whose 2007 disappearance drew national media attention will be featured again this week in a segment of America’s Most Wanted.

An 51±¬ÁÏÍø adjunct instructor was honored this fall for her research on the way companies describe themselves, and how those descriptions give consumers a better understanding of what the business is really saying about its products and services. Linda Gretton, in the School of Communications, won the Association for Business Communication’s Outstanding Dissertation Award at its annual conference.