Arts and Sciences: Mathematical and Natural Sciences

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Are You On The Pill? | Angela Kashuba

Ted Morée September 26, 2019

Angela Kashuba is the John and Deborah McNeill, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She was appointed chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics in 2015 and serves as director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core. […]

Lifestyle Medicine for Keeping Mentally Healthy | Rob Donovan

Ted Morée September 26, 2019

Lifestyle Medicine for Keeping Mentally Healthy presentation by Robert J. Donovan, PhD, Act-Belong-Commit Founder, delivered as the Mental Health Summit key note address on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at Elon University. (78)

Act – Belong – Commit: Inspiring a Mentally Healthy Denmark | Ziggi Ivan Santini

Ted Morée September 26, 2019

Ziggi Ivan Santini delivered the keynote address of Elon University’s Mental Health Summit on Thursday, September 26, 2019, entitled Act-Belong-Commit: Inspiring a Mentally Healthy Denmark. (154)

Democracy in a Hotter Time | David Orr

Cultural & Special Programs April 25, 2019

David W. Orr is an internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education. He is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies & Politics, Emeritus of Oberlin College and served as “Counselor to the President” of Oberlin College for ten years. Dr. Orr is the author of eight books, including Dangerous […]

The Win:Wins of Fostering a Local Food System in NC | Nancy Creamer

Teaching & Learning Technologies March 25, 2019

Creamer is director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), a partnership of N.C. State University, North Carolina A&T State University and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Located in Goldsboro, NC, CEFS projects vary from developing community-based strategies to reduce hunger, promoting good farm financial management, developing more sustainable production […]

How Blockchain Technology is Changing Business

Teaching & Learning Technologies March 8, 2019

Sam Penfield, Advisory Product Manager at SAS and Joe Green, Associate Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, provide an introduction to Blockchain technology and its impact on business. Blockchain was first described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta as a methodology to timestamp documents, and only became popular with the introduction […]

Restoring Motor Function in Amputees with Smart Prosthetics | Helen Huang

Teaching & Learning Technologies September 26, 2018

As the director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at North Carolina State University, Helen Huang’s chief research interest is perfecting neural-machine interfaces for artificial limbs and human-robot interactions. Huang’s research has been supported by several federal agencies including the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, as well as private companies. Significant recognition […]

Reflections on Authentic Identities | Alan Russell

Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life September 26, 2018

Alan Russell, associate professor of Mathematics, offers his thoughts on this year’s Numen Lumen theme “Authentic Identities” in his talk “An Authentic Life: By the Numbers.” Professor Russell is associate professor of Mathematics. His research and publications focus on teaching and learning strategies using multiple software applications as well as origami manipulatives in the mathematics […]