Academics & Research

Julie Lellis, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, published an article discussing the role of higher education in assuming social leadership on disability services in the international journal Disability & Society.

Matthew Valle, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, recently presented a paper at the 2011 Southern Management Association meeting in Savannah, Ga.

Chris Leupold, associate professor of psychology, presented a paper at the 2011 Southern Management Association meeting in Savannah, Ga. The manuscript, " To Stay or To Go?: The Roles of Job Embeddedness and Correlate Factors in Retail Pharmacists’ Intentions to Leave” was published in the proceedings of the annual meeting.

Kevin O’Mara, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, published a paper entitled “The Strategic Case for Mass Customization” in the summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences.

Professor Mary Gowan was a member of a panel on "Building the Management PhD Pipeline" at the recent Southern Management Association annual meeting held in Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10-12, 2011.

Associate Director of Academic Support, Troy Martin, presented his paper "The Professionalization of Human Interaction: A Multi-perspective Critique of Ethical Code" at the 2011 AESA conference in St. Louis, Mo. This year's conference theme was "education and human rights."

Matthew Valle, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his research published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Journal of Character and Leadership Integration.

Buffie Longmire-Avital, an assistant professor in psychology presented her research poster titled "Why Compromise (?): Assessing Sexually Risky Decisions for Heterosexual Black American Women," at the annual conference for The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in Houston Texas, Nov. 3 - 5.

School of Communications assistant professor Phillip Motley and associate professor Amanda Sturgill each presented work at the International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (IARSLCE) annual conference Nov. 2-4 in Chicago.

John Burbridge, professor of operations and supply chain management, delivered an invited lecture on Oct. 27, 2011, at the Florida State College of Law.