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Faculty Notes - John Carroll University University John Carroll University Carroll Collected Faculty Notes - John Carroll University University 5-2014 Faculty Notes- John Carroll University John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/faculty_notes Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "Faculty Notes- John Carroll University" (2014). Faculty Notes - John Carroll University. 27. http://collected.jcu.edu/faculty_notes/27 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Notes - John Carroll University by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Head, Coil Mgt & Systems Adm Director of Li brary (P) SILVER CIRCLE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING ON REACHING 25 YEARS OF SERVICE THIS YEAR: • Lauren Bowen, Provost and A VP's 0 ffice • Ken Brownlie, Information Technology • Doris Donnelly, Theology and Religious Studies • Penny Harris, Sociology and Criminology • Christopher Kane, Facilities and Grounds • Tom Schubeck, S.J., Theology and Religious Studies • Nancy Taylor, Education and Allied Studies • Mark Treleven, Management, Marketing, and Logistics • ChuckZarobila, GrasselliLibrary THE FOLLOWING HAVE COMPLETED TERMS OF SERVICE LEADING PROGRAMS ANO DEPARTMENTS: ·Peggy Finucane, Director, Center for Service and Social Action Dedicated • John McBratney, Chair, THE FOLLOWING ARE RETIRING FACULTY WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED ACOMBINED Department ofEnglish 330 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY. ·Earl Spurgin, Director, Applied Ethics Professor he always seeks to elevate and improve the • Cathy Rosemary, Chair, ofF inance Boler School." Department ofEducation and Allied Studies Having earned an MBA and a Ph.D. at Michigan State Roy taught courses in domestic and global • Mark Storz, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies University, Roy taught at the corporate finance and investments topics, University of Delaware and making extensive use of technology in TRANSITIONS: fo r 25 years at the university his classes. In fact, he created a financial • John Day, Provost and Academic of South Carolina before management simulation game, Fingame: Vice President, will join the faculty being appointed the Edward The Financial Management Decision Game of the English Department at John J. and Louise E. Mellen Chair in Finance at (Now Online Fingame 5.0) that has gone Carroll. John Carroll in 2001. through several editions and is widely used in • Lauren Bowen, Associate financial education. Academic Vice President for Diversity and Student Initiatives, "Roy has been an absolute gem of a will become provost of Juniata colleague," says Andy Welki, Associate Roy has authored more than 60 papers about College in Pennsylvania. Professor of Economics. After a long and mutual fund performance, valuation of accomplished career elsewhere, Roy quickly corporate security issues, corporate control NEW APPOINTMENTS: became an integral part of our department issues, determinants of corporate debt levels, • Cecile Brennan, Chair, Counseling and differences in valuation factors between Department and the Boler School. He embraces the culture and uniqueness of John Carroll; public offerings and private placements • Graciela Lacueva, Associate Dean, Science, Mathematics, and Health his pursuit of academic excellence from that have appeared in Journal ofFinanc e, his students is laudatory . .. He serves as Journal ofBusiness , Review ofEconomics and • Kathleen Manning, Director, Program in Exercise Science a mentor to students and colleagues alike. Statistics, Management Science, Financial • John McBratney, Chair, Roy's perspectives and wisdom always Management, Financial Review, Journal Department ofEnglish provide fodder for serious consideration, as Listed are self­ ACCOUNTING reported faculty published "Richard Professors Welki and Zlatoper also presented "Drivers Test Performance accomplishments in Brief's Contributions to Accounting Thought," in The Accounting and Motor Vehicle Fatalities" (co­ research, teaching, and Historians Journal, 40:2 (2013). authored with Walter Simmons) at scholarly achievement, the Eastern Economic Association along with other Annual Conference in Boston, MA, March 6-9, 2014. professional activities. BIOLOGY D. J. Paluh, tri and published "Natural History Note: Plethodon EDUCATION AND ALLIED cine reus. Morphology," Herpetological STUDIES Review 44 (2013). published a review of The Last Frontier: Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear CLASSICAL AND MODERN ofDeath by Julia Assante in Journal of LANGUAGES AND CULTURES Near-Death Studies 31:4 (2013). published "Cannibalizing Ovid: Allusion, Storytelling and Deception in Juvenal ENGLISH 15" in The Classical Journal109:4 published (2014) "Recycling Topology as Topos in Music and Narrative: Machaut, Bach, Mobius, published Coetzee, Josipovici, and Composition" "Epigraphs, Intertextuality, and Exile: in Postmedieval: A Journal ofMedieval Reading the Poetry of Zoe Valdes" in Cultural Studies 4:3 (2013). Letras Femeninas 39:2 (Invierno 2013). Professor Macaskill also published Professor Thornton also published entries about "Apartheid" and "J.M. a review of Poeticas de los (dis) Coetzee" in the Wiley Blackwell locamientos, ed. GiselaHejfes, in Encyclopedia ofPost colonial Studies. Hispania 96:4 (December 2013). presented "A 'Center' in the 'Commons': The Impact of a ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Name/ Identity Change on a University and Writing Center" at the College English presented "Do Rising Remittances Association Annual Conference in Explain Economic Growth in the Baltimore, MD, March 27-29,2014. Caribbean Community and Common Market?" at the Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting in GRASSELLILIBRARY Evanston, IL March 21-23,2014. and published a feature article titled Professor Simmons and Rosemarie "Proactive Chat Reference: Getting in Emanuele published "The Non­ the Users' Space" in College & Research Optimality ofFor-Profit Firms Acting Libraries News 75:4 (April, 2014). as Philanthropic Agents" in Applied Economics and Finance, 1:1 (May 2014). HISTORY Professor Simmons also published served as "How Too Big To Fail Policies commentator on a panel titled Threaten Free Market Capitalism" in "Rethinking Republican Party Smart Business Magazine, December Influence during the Long Civil 23,2013. Rights Movement, 1960-2012" at the Organization of American Historians d and Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, April published "The Effect of 10-13, 2014. Cell Phones on International Motor Vehicle Fatality Rates: A Panel-Data Analysis" in Transportation Research PartE64 (2014). MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER PSYCHOlOGY in The Francis Factor: A New Departure SCIENCE published (Dublin: Columba Press, 2014) "Beneficial Assessment Outcomes and published Theology presented a paper from Frequent Testing," International for Ministry (Liturgical Press, 2014). titled "Using Dual Graphics Views Journal ofA ssessment and Evaluation in GeoGebra" at the 26th Annual 20 (2014). Professor Hahnenberg presented a International Conference on Technology paper titled, "Who am I to J udge? Professor Imam and T.A. Warner Magisterial Authority in an Age in Collegiate Mathematics in San published "Test Order Effects in Antonio, TX, March 20-23, 2014. of Digital Immediacy" at the U.S. Simultaneous Protocols," Learning and Lutheran-Catholic Ecumenical Professors D'Ambrosia and Spitznagel Behavior 42 (2013). Dialogue in Washington, DC February also published "MathJa.x: Seamless 2014. Mathematics on the Web" in the SOCIOlOGY AND Proceedings ofth e 25th Annual published a review of International Conference on Technology CRIMINOLOGY The Tibetan Version of the Scripture on in Collegiate Mathematics (Boston: published "Our Family the Ten Kings and the Quest for Chinese Pearson Education, 2014). Functions: Functions of Traditional Influence on the Tibetan Perception Weddings fo r Modern Brides and of the Afterlife, by Daniel BerounskY Postmodern Families" in Qualitative (with Lubos Belka) in Asian Highlands PHILOSOPHY Sociology Review 10:2 (April2014). Perspectives 28 (2013). published gave a talk about "What "Hometactics: Self-Mapping, Belonging, Professor Barnes published "Deciding Catholics Should Know about Islam" at and the Home Question" in Living on Leave: How U.S. women in dual­ the First Ftiday Club of Cleveland, March Alterities, ed. Emily S. Lee (New York: earner couples decide on maternity 6, 2014, and spoke about "The Islamic SUNY Press, 2014). leave length" in Families, Relationships and Societies. 3:1 (March 2014). Approach to Plmalism" at St. Pascal of Babylon Chmch in Highland Heights on PHYSICS was an invited speaker Ma.rch31. at a conference, "New Directions in edited Another Social Studies of Medicine, Science, Professor Saritoprak also participated Weight Loss Gimmick? M aybe Not! and Ethics," sponsored by Princeton in a Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong (North Charleston, SC: CreatesSpace University, March 13-14,2014. Her Learning Program titled "Mankind's Independent Publishing Platform, 2014). paper was titled "Imposing Order on Old Search fo r Meaning: Anthropological Age in J apan." and Psychological Explorations." His contribution was titled "The Meaning POliTICAl SCIENCE Professor Long participated in the of Being Human in the Universe." The published spring meeting of the N ort heast Asia Siegal Lifelong Learning Programs are two articles: "Value Change and Council of the Association for Asian affiliated with Case Western Reserve Political Action: Postmaterialism,
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