Academics & Research

Paula Patch, lecturer in English and coordinator of College Writing, made a presentation titled "Fluid Boundaries: Creating a Meaningful Assessment of a Basic Writing Workshop" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis on March 22, 2012.

Lauren Kearns & Karl Green take students to dance festival in France.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, moderated a March 30 panel discussion in the 2012 MIT Global Startup Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey.

Assistant professor Michael Matthews presented at the 59th annual Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies in Park City, Utah on March 29, 2012.

On Friday, March 30, Chris Leupold, associate professor of Psychology and Faculty Leadership Fellow, gave a talk on careers in organizational consulting to the doctoral students in the applied social psychology program at the University of Windsor, Canada.

Communications assistant professor Lucinda Austin had two refereed book chapters published in the second edition of "New Media and Public Relations," edited by Sandra Duhe and published by Peter Lang Publishing.

Spanish Associate Professor Mayte de Lama presented a paper titled "El principio del fin en 14 kilómetros y Retorno a Hansala: El cine Español como puente de acercamiento entre culturas" at the XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica in Cusco, Perú, on March 7-9, 2012.

Neeraj Gupta, assistant professor of finance, has had a busy year on the research front. In the past few months, three of his academic research papers were published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals.

Gerald R. Knight, assistant professor of music, spent most of the week of March 19-25 participating in a historic conference at UNC Chapel Hill. The conference, Videmus@25, celebrated the contribution made to classical music by women, African Americans, and underrepresented composers.

Associate Professor of Fine Arts Shawn Tucker presented some of his research at the conference of the Humanities Education and Research Association March 7-10, 2012.