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Gary Palin, a senior lecturer and executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, is one of seven individuals in a joint entrepreneurial venture that has raised more than $2.4 million from investors with interest in the company’s GPS technology to track people and pets.

David Crowe, professor of legal history at Elon Law and professor of history at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, recently presented at the 10th Conference of Central Asia and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in China at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor Michael Kingston, of the departments of Biology and Environmental Studies, and Mona DeVries, an assistant professor of biology, co-taught a graduate-level Marine Ecology course at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C., from July 11 to Aug. 12.

The summer of 2011 was a busy time for faculty as they embarked upon learning a new learning management system, Moodle.

Nina B. Namaste, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages, was recently accepted to participate in the 2011-12 cohort of the Teagle Assessment Scholar Development Program.

Christina Benson, assistant professor of business law and ethics, was one of four legal scholars selected to present her work at the annual “Invited Scholars Colloquium” held during the 2011 Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference in New Orleans this month.

Claudine R. Moreau, lecturer in the Physics Department at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, won first place in the 2011 The Pinch Literary Awards contest in poetry.

Sophie Adamson, associate professor of French, attended the annual convention for the American Association of Teachers of French in Montreal July 7-9, 2011.

Janet MacFall, in the Department of Environmental Studies, presented a research paper at the recent annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. The paper, "Enzyme activity in hyporheic soils of Piedmont streams," was based on research done over the past two years and was co-authored with student Danielle Whitman.