Academics & Research

Amy Allocco, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, delivered a lecture titled “Visual Language, Architecture, and Memory in the Collages of a Contemporary Tamil Muslim Artist” at the Dishman Museum at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.

The study appears in the latest edition of the African Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health.

School of Communications associate professor and interim department chair Frances Ward-Johnson was an invited speaker at the 11th annual National Black Public Relations Society Conference and Career Fair held Oct. 27-30 in Milwaukee.

Jeffrey Clark's "Derivative Sign Patterns" appears in the current (November 2011) edition of The College Mathematics Journal.

Wesley R. Elingburg Professor of Accounting Art Cassill and professors of management Matt Valle and Kevin O’Mara recently published the article “Pedagogy, Andragogy or Something In-Between? Effectively Structuring Undergraduate Education for the 21st Century” in the proceedings of the 2011 Academy of Business Education conference.

Clyde Ellis, professor of history, presented the results of his two most recent projects at conferences in Maryland and Oklahoma.

Evan Gatti, assistant professor in the Department of Art & Art History, will serve as chair for one of two sessions for Undergraduate Papers in Art History at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Savannah, Ga., Nov. 9-12, 2011.

Martha and Spencer Love School of Business professors of management Matt Valle and Kevin O’Mara recently published an article entitled “The New Reality: Holding On and Letting Go” in the Journal of Executive Education.

Earl Honeycutt, Martha and Spencer Love Term Professor of Marketing, presented "Reducing Research Problems When Evaluating Sales Training" on November 5 at the 49th Society for Marketing Advances Conference held in Memphis, Tenn.

Randy Piland, a senior lecturer in the School of Communications, spent a couple of weeks this summer providing coverage of the 2011 World Scout Jamboree in Sweden.