Faculty/Staff News of Note
January 2006
Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing, has received a third Fulbright grant to fund his teaching and research work in Bangladesh.
Saad will spend three weeks lecturing at BRAC University in Dhaka as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. He will work with 25 staff and professionals affiliated with the university’s Institute of Education and Development to design research methodologies and develop research proposals that can be used to identify problems in and develop strategies for improvement of Bangladesh’s public education system.
The Black School of Business was well-represented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute held Nov. 19-22 in San Francisco:
Diane Parente, associate professor of management, presented the paper “Technology Development in a University/Industry Collaboration: A Tripartite Model.” Her co-authors were Shannon Sweeney, assistant professor of engineering, and Robert Michael, lecturer in engineering. Diane also presented a paper titled “Socialization Agents Influence on Digital Piracy” for co-authors Matthew Swinarski, assistant professor of MIS, and Kathleen Noce, lecturer in MIS.
Diane served as session chair and facilitator for a panel discussion on “Various Perspectives of Supply Chain Management Curriculums.” Participants on the panel included Peter Southard, Eric Jackson, and Michael Maloni, assistant professors of management, and former Black School faculty member Peggy Lee.
Peter Southard presented a paper co-authored with Diane Parente, “Benchmarking: A Review of Recent Trends.” Eric Jackson presented “An Analysis of Stakeholder Contribution to Port Capacity Drivers,” which was co-written with Michael Maloni.
Diane Parente serves on the editorial review board of the Institute’s Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.
Handbook of Sports Economics Research, a new book by John Fizel, professor of economics, has been published by M.E. Sharpe. For the first time under a single cover, this book presents an overview of past research results and directions for future research in sports economics as a unique reference source for academics and sports-related industries. The handbook addresses issues in team and individual sports as well as provides comparisons between sports for major topics such as revenue and costs, labor markets, market structure, market outcomes, and public policy.
Robert Roecklein, lecturer in English, presented the paper “Socrates’ Profession of Ignorance and the Origin of Political Discourse” at the November meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association in Philadelphia.
Mary Connerty, lecturer in English, presented “Making the Invisible Visible: An Argument for Corpus Linguistic Studies of Nilotic and Other Understudied Languages” on Dec. 9 at Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya.
Craig Warren, assistant professor of English, launched The Ambrose Bierce Project (www.ambrosebierce.org) in late December. The project is dedicated to the study of Bierce -- the American soldier, journalist, and writer -- and is both a humanities computing project and peer-reviewed e-journal. The first issue features the work of scholars from the U.S., Germany, and Wales.
Paul Olson, lecturer in mathematics, presented “Scrabble Tournaments, Ramsey Theory, and Resolvable Designs,” a paper co-written Paul Becker, assistant professor of mathematics, at the joint American Mathematical Society/Mathematical Association of America meeting held last weekend in San Antonio, Texas.
Jay Amicangelo, assistant professor of chemistry, has requested $34,000 in funding from NSF proposal subcontractor Miami University to fund “Study of Noncovalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings.”
Nearly $300,000 has been requested in a proposal created by Michael Campbell, associate professor of biology, and submitted to the NSF. The proposal asks for three years of funding for “Analysis of the NDP1/OPH2 Interaction in Plants.”
Over the winter break Victoria Kazmerski, associate professor of psychology, attended the by-invitation Carmel Cognitive Psychophysiology Workshop in St. Petersburg, Fla. While there she presented "Using ERPs to Answer Cognitive Theories of Non-literal Language," which was based on her collaboration with Dawn Blasko, associate professor of psychology. Vicki also was a panel member for the discussion "The Multiple Vocabularies of the Brain."Return to Faculty and Staff News Index