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Attention men. Drop the dumbbells and hit the books. Your brain may be your most attractive body part. Mark Prokosch, an ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë adjunct assistant professor, shows in new research due to be published this winter in Evolution and Human Behavior that intelligence is important when it comes to attracting a woman.

News organizations around the world have reported in recent days on research by associate professor Janna Q. Anderson for the Imagining the Internet Center in Elon's School of Communications, conducted in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Lee Heywood (Woody) Pelton has been named the next Dean of International Programs and Director of the Isabella Cannon Centre at ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë. Pelton, who begins his duties at the end of May, comes from Winthrop University in South Carolina where he has directed The International Center for the past two years.

ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë School of Law moves to holiday hours starting Dec. 18 and will be on an abbreviated schedule through Jan. 3, 2009.

The LSM Society raised $10,000 this fall by managing concessions for a PGA event in Cary, N.C., and by hosting a wheelchair basketball tournament.

Campus security officer Louis Adams died Dec. 15, 2008, at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

Henry Gabriel, a visiting professor at the ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë School of Law who has served on the Governing Council of The International Institute for the Unification of Private International Law (UNIDROIT) since 2003, has been elected to another five-year term on the council.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Dec. 14, 2008, in the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. "Gifts for 'interesting' times" uses the concept of a holiday gift list to comment on the past election and the economy.

Eric M. Fink, an associate professor in the ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë School of Law, will be a guest Dec. 18 on North Carolina Public Radio for the station’s “The State of Things” noontime program.

Margaret Miller, an instructor and executive-in-residence in marketing, provided expert commentary for News 14 Carolina in a recent news segment that examines what retailers are doing to lure shoppers in a holiday season overshadowed by a recession.