Don B. Bradley, III, professor of marketing, Justin E. Brown, a sales representative with Hewlett-Packard and former MBA student, and Michael J. Rubach, professor of management, recently had an article entitled 鈥淚raqi Business Culture: An Expatriate鈥檚 View鈥� published in the Journal of International Business Research. The paper reflects Justin鈥檚 experiences while working in Iraq and analyzes the effects of imposing a very diverse Western business culture on the religious culture of Iraq.Michael J. Rubach, professor of Management, Don B. Bradley, III, Ppofessor of Marketing, and Justin E. Brown, a sales representative with Hewlett-Packard and former MBA student, recently had an article entitled 鈥淭he Determinants of the Success of Microlending: A Comparison of Iraq and the United States鈥� published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship. The paper analyzes how the development of microlendiing in the US and Iraq have differed and analyzes how these differences have impacted the success of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in those countries.
Doug Voss, assistant professor and director of the UCA Center for Cooperative Logistics Education, Advancement, and Research (CLEAR) recently presented a paper entitled “Key Success Factors for Small Motor Carriers:听 Benchmarking Performance and Best Practices,” at the National Association of Small Trucking Companies annual conference in Nashville.
Alex Fayman, assistant professor of finance, recently had a paper entitled 鈥淒ividends, Maturity, and Acquisitions: Evidence from a Sample of Bank IPOs,鈥� accepted for publication in Review of Financial Economics. Marcia Millon Cornett, Alan J. Marcus and Hassan Tehranian coauthored the paper.
Alex Fayman, assistant professor of finance, and Ling He, professor of finance, recently had a paper entitled 听鈥淧repayment Risk and Bank Performance鈥� accepted for publication in Journal of Risk Finance.
Alex Fayman, assistant professor of finance, Noel Campbell, associate professor of economics, and Kirk Heriot recently had a paper entitled 鈥淧repayment Risk and Bank Performance鈥� accepted for publication in Journal of Risk Finance.
Dr. Mark Cooper and Ms. Renee Calhoon with the UCA College of Education Mashburn Center for Learning provided an 淫性视频 Adolescent Literacy Intervention (AALI) Leadership Summit on Nov. 8 at the Conway Hilton Garden Inn.听 Attendees included 淫性视频 school district assistant superintendents, building principals, instructional facilitators, classroom teachers, and AALI Professional Developers.听 Participants were provided opportunities to learn from one another through AALI school presentations and table talk activities.听
Faculty from the UCA College of Education Department of Teaching and Learning contributed to the great success of the annual 淫性视频 Curriculum Conference held at the Peabody Hotel and Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock on Nov.3-5.听
Dr. James W. Hikins, professor and chair of the Department of Speech Communication and Public Relations, made听a 听presentation on Nov. 15 听at two panels at the 2010 National Communication Association annual conference in San Francisco. They were titled: “The State of Rhetorical and Communication Theory in the Twenty-First Century: Two Provocations” and “@font-face {听 font-family: “Arial”;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }鈥淏urke鈥檚 Theoretical Omnipresence: Finding Solacein His Relativised Realism.鈥�
Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, recently returned from Paris where he presented his paper 鈥淧olemic: The History of Pirated English-Language Translations of Jean Genet鈥檚 Poetry (with Chronology)鈥� at the Jean Genet–La Censure dans la Traduction Litteraire panel at the international Genet conference at the Odeon Theatre sponsored by the Federation of International Translators. Spitzer, who is considered the world expert on the poetry of Genet, also spoke in the Ecrire c鈥檈st Lever Toutes les Censures panel. Meanwhile, Spitzer鈥檚 article 鈥淏ob Dylan’s Tarantula: An Arctic Reserve of Untapped Glimmerance Dismissed in a Ratland of Clich茅s鈥� is being republished in the catalogue for the Richard Prince exhibition at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France. Spitzer also had scholarship on American authors published on the websites for Princeton University Press and the Kenyon Review.
Dr. Nancy B. Reese, professor and chairperson of the Department of Physical Therapy, has been elected treasurer for the newly formed American Physical Therapy Association’s听Academic Council.听 The board of directors听will be working to create a strong organization that will govern physical therapy education from now into the future.
Kenneth Barnes, professor and chair of the Department of History, had an article, “Inspiration from the East: Black Arkansans Look to Japan,” published in the fall issue of the 淫性视频 Historical Quarterly.听 In November, 听he attended a workshop in Johannesburg, South African听on Back-to-Africa migrations from North America and the West Indies.听 The conference was organized by the Centre for the Advanced Study of African Societies听in Capetown, which will publish Dr. Barnes’s paper in an anthology about the Back-to-Africa movement.
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In honor of Veteran’s Day, Speech-Language Pathology faculty members Jeff Adams and John Lowe paid tribute to Jim Thurman, an associate professor of Speech-Language Pathology, by purchasing a brick in his honor at the Veterans Memorial in Maumelle. The idea behind the memorial is to salute our country鈥檚 Vietnam military veterans.听