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WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY’S NEWSLETTEPRISMR FOR AcADEMIC AFFAirs Volume 73, Oct 2013 HAWORTH COLLEGE OF BUSINESS UPCOMING EVENTS The founder of The Wellness RN will discuss how to eat healthy while maintaining an on-the-go lifestyle during the Keystone Community Bank Breakfast Speaker Series at Haworth College of Business. Heather Ratliff, registered nurse and wellness coach, will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the Haworth College of Business in 2150 Schneider Hall, delivering a presentation titled “Dining Out: Finding a Healthy Place at the Table.” The event is free and open to the public and begins with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (269) 387-5050. Free parking is available. With a passion for wellness, Heather Ratliff began her website, The Wellness Heather Ratliff RN, in 2012 to help individuals, families and small businesses achieve health nutritionists, who focus on exercise and Ratliff is an alumna of WMU’s Bronson goals and address issues such as obesity diet, Ratliff takes a holistic approach School of Nursing and received her and stress that can lead to serious to treating both the mind and body. master’s degrees in both environmental problems. Her interest in helping people She meets with her clients regularly science and public policy from Indiana with weight management, lifestyle to establish accountability and focus, University. Prior to her career as a nurse, change and nutrition is what made her goes with them grocery shopping and she worked at Pfizer as an industrial want to start The Wellness RN. Unlike even helps clean out their pantries. microbiologist. TABLE OF CONTENTS CENTER FOR AcADEMIC SUccESS PROGRAMS 5 ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT 14 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 3 GRADUATE COLLEGE 15 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND HAWORTH COLLEGE OF BUSINESS 1 APPLIED SCIENCES 7 HAENICKE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION 16 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS 8 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 17 COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 11 1 PRISM: WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY’S NEWSLETTER FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS growing company in the U.S. in 2008, Research, Vol. 66, No. 11, 2013, p.2153- 2009 and 2010 and was recognized as 2162. one of the 2011 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch. Due to Mueller’s Kelley O’Reilly, assistant professor of entrepreneurial success, he was named marketing, and S. Marx, had their paper, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the “How Young, Technical Consumers Year finalist in 2011. Interested in Determine Online WOM Credibility” helping people in situations of poverty, selected by Emerald’s literati Network Mueller spends much of his time for its Best Practical Implications Award traveling the world and living in in 2013. different cultures while growing MacUpdate remotely. Sime Curkovic, professor of management, has been invited as a guest speaker for the Kalamazoo, FACULTY AND STAFF AccOLADES Michigan Southwest APICS (Association of Operations Management) Meeting on the subject of, “Advancement in Supply Joel Mueller Sime Curkovic, professor of Chain Management Curriculums and management; Thomas Scannell, Career Paths” on Nov. 19, 2013. professor of management; and The founder of the second most popular Bret Wagner, associate professor Stacey Fitzsimmons, assistant Mac-only software community on the of management, had their paper, professor of management, had her Internet will be the next presenter in a “ISO 31000 and Supply Chain Risk paper, “Multicultural Employees: A speaker series at Haworth College of Management: A Longitudinal Study” Framework for Understanding How Business focusing on entrepreneurship. accepted for publication and is They Contribute to Organizations” Joel Mueller, founder of MacUpdate, forthcoming in the American Journal of accepted and published in Academy will speak at 8 a.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in Industrial and Business Management, of Management Review, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2150 Schneider Hall, as part of the Vol. 3, No. 6, 2013. 2013, p.525-549. Haworth College of Business Entrepreneurship Forum. The event is Sime Curkovic, professor of Derrick McIver, assistant professor free and open to the public and begins management; Thomas Scannell, of management; Cynthia Lengnick- with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Reservations professor of management; and Hall; Mark Lengnick-Hall; and Indu are required and can be made by calling Bret Wagner, associate professor Ramachandran, had their paper, (269) 387-5050 or at wmich.edu/ of management, had their paper, “Understanding Work and Knowledge business/e-rsvp. Free parking is “Using FMEA for Supply Chain Risk Management from a Knowledge-in- available in the nearby Fetzer Center Management” accepted for publication Practice Perspective” accepted and parking lot. Mueller’s entrepreneurial and is forthcoming in Modern published in Academy of Management story started in high school when he Management Science & Engineering, Review, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2013, p.597-620. developed companies as a teenager and Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013. grew them into some of the most Andrew Targowski, professor of popular and well-respected companies Sime Curkovic, professor of business information systems, is the in their niches. At the age of 16, Mueller management, and Thomas Scannell, author of a new book: “Harnessing began MacUpdate, a centralized professor of management, had their the Power of Wisdom, From Data location where users can find software, paper, “Identifying the Factors for to Wisdom.” Published in July 2013, reviews, demos and more. Reaching Successfully Managing Supply Chain the book explores and defines the more than seven million visits each Risks” accepted for publication in The interdisciplinary theory of wisdom month, the company sells hundreds of World Financial Review, September/ and uses examples taken from real thousands of copies of third party October, 2013, p.60-63. cases of applied wisdom by prominent applications directly from its nearly people in our society. The review hidden online storefront. While earning Robert Harrison, assistant professor of applied wisdom is provided in his B.B.A. at WMU, Mueller was both a of marketing, had his paper, “Using a historic context as well as in the full-time student and a full-time CEO. Mixed Methods Designs in the Journal interdisciplinary approach. “This book is The company has since been recognized of Business Research, 1990-2010” the first of its kind by defining wisdom by Inc. Magazine as a Top 500 fastest published in the Journal of Business 2 PRISM: WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY’S NEWSLETTER FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS as information and the highest level of the cognition units set, composed of data, information, concept, knowledge and wisdom,” says Targowski. “I consider wisdom the most important civilization resource, and it should be monitored in a way that is similar or even better than the way we monitor the use of energy, the development of population or other resources.” Targowski has founded his theory of wisdom on multiple assumptions, including: wise decisions need not be expert in nature; wisdom is not synonymous with intelligence; wisdom has a range of bandwidth and properties; knowledge on what constitutes wisdom is not the same as the process of becoming a wise person; and many more. Author of 27 books on W.E. Upjohn Center staff members. Left to right, 1st row: Marilyn Johnson, Katy Morharter, information technology, civilization, Margaret Spyker and Caitlin Prior. 2nd row: Kevin Agema, Greg Anderson and professor emeritus Dr. David Dickason. philosophy and political science, this is Targowski’s third book on the interdisciplinary theory of wisdom and Integrated supply management discussion in all issues pertaining to is available from NOVA Publishers, New student, Ashley Moyle, of Mattawan, economics. The series is sponsored by York. Mich., has won the APICS Scholar the College of Arts and Sciences and the Award. As part of the award, Moyle will W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment attend conferences and learn valuable Research. All lectures are open to the STUDENT AND ALUMNI information pertaining to supply chain public. This year’s lecture series opened AccOLADES operations management, as well as with Dr. Erica Field, associate professor network with supply chain professionals of economics and global health at worldwide. As an APICS scholar, Moyle Duke University. For a full schedule will attend a five-day conference in and descriptions of the remainder of Florida, participating in various program the speakers please visit wmich.edu/ activities and events centered around news/2013/10/10155. learning and improving supply chain and operations management skills. On Friday, Oct. 11, WMU celebrated She will be paired with a professional the W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study APICS mentor, who will share real- of Geographical Change for receiving world experiences and knowledge, and two gold awards from the International will have opportunities to meet and Map Industry Association for its state- network with industry experts. of-the-art digital maps. The Upjohn Center earned the gold award for Best Digital Mapping Product of 2013 and COLLEGE OF ARTS AND the Overall Winner Award for IMIA SCIENCES Americas. Attendees were welcomed to the reception by Dr. Ben Ofori-Amoah, ITEMS OF AcADEMIC INTEREST director of the Upjohn Center and chair of WMU’s Department of Geography. Professor emeritus of geography and Named for former WMU economics founder of the Upjohn Center, Dr. David Ashley Moyle professor and department chair, the Dickason shared his accolades and Werner Sichel Lecture Series celebrates introduced the Upjohn Center staff. 50 years of open and engaging Continued on next page 3 PRISM: WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY’S NEWSLETTER FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS WMU President John Dunn presented WMU graduate student Michael Swartz and prices skyrocketing. Now, one of the awards to Margaret Spyker and for the paper titled “Tropisetron as the highest-quality potash ore deposits Greg Anderson, and Provost Timothy a Neuroprotective Agent Against in the world has been identified below Greene and CAS Dean Alexander Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity and the surface of West Michigan.

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