Academics & Research

Alex Yap, an associate professor of management information systems, presented research titled "Cloud Computing Services in Finance: Ready for Ubiquitous Computing?" at the INFORMS Conference (Institute for Operational Research & the Management Science) held at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., from Nov. 12-16, 2011.

John Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, presented "Sabermetrics: Analytics and Baseball" at the INFORMS Annual Meeting on Nov. 16 in Charlotte, N.C.

Lucinda Austin, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, recently co-authored an article about how public relations ethics is taught internationally.

Associate Professor of Fine Arts Shawn Tucker presented a paper Nov. 14, 2011 at the 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2011) in Madrid, Spain.

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.