Faculty & Staff
Index:
- Brooks College of Health- Coggin College of Business
- College of Computing, Engineering and Construction
- College of Education and Human Services
Brooks College of Health
Dean’s Office: Drs. Lucy Trice and Patricia Foster’s article titled “Improving Diversity through Use of a Group Admission Interview” was published in the March issue of AORN Journal.
Public Health: Dr. Lei-Shih Chen’s articles, “Does Individuals’ Perception of Personal Risk of Lung Cancer Affect Their Attitudes Toward Protective Health Behavior?” co-authored by K.A. Kaphingst and “Web-based Research: Lessons Learned from the Health Promotion and Genetics/Genomics Survey” co-authored by P. Goodson, were recently accepted for the 29th Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Coggin College of Business
Accounting and Finance: Dr. John MacArthur published “Practical Guidelines for Using Replacement Cost Accounting in Resource Consumption Accounting: Important Lessons from History” in Cost Management, January/February 2008.
The audio book of “Tell Me How You Love the Picture” by Edward S. Feldman and UNF Professor Dr. Thomas Barton is one of the six finalists in the non-fiction category for a ForeWord magazine Book of the Year award. Christian Hoff, a star of “Jersey Boys” on Broadway, is the reader of the audio book.
Management: Dr. Diane Denslow had a paper titled “Teaching International Entrepreneurship Through Student Exchange: Observations, Obstacles and Recommendations,” co-authored by Bryan Toney and Drs. Scott A. Jones, Frank Janssen and Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseb, accepted for publication in the Journal of Entrepreneurship Education.
Dr. Bruce Fortado had a paper accepted at the 24th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium in Amsterdam. The paper was titled “Upsetting Organizations in Sub-theme Evil Tongues at Work? The Unmanaged Spaces of Organizational Gossip.”
Drs. Reza Vaghefi and Louis Woods’ research paper, “Motor Drive: Sustainability of Competitive Advantage in the Battle of Two Titans,” was the second most downloaded article from the spring issue of Business Strategy Review, as reported by the Social Science Research Network. The paper continues to be the favorite of the researchers.
Marketing and Logistics: Dr. Adel El-Ansary had two papers published on China related topics. “The Impact of a Distributor’s Trust in a Supplier and Use of Control Mechanisms Relational Value Creation in Marketing Channels,” co-authored by Yi Liu, Lei Tao and Yuan Li, was published in the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2008. “Macro Antecedents, Micro Outcomes: A Frame of Reference for Understanding Marketing To, In, and Out of China,” co-authored by David Whitsett, was published in Dr. Jeffrey E. Michelman and Chung Ping (Albert) Loh’s book, “China as an Emerging Superpower: Challenges for China and the United States,” and appears on pages 137-162. El-Ansary’s “E-Marketing, 4th Edition” (co-authored by Raymond Frost and Judy Strauss) is now available in Chinese-Mandarin and has been selected for the designation of Business Administration Classic by Pearson Education (Prentice-Hall).
Dr. Gregory T. Gundlach served as session chair for the special session “Legal Issues: Descriptive and Proscriptive Perspectives” at the 2008 Winter Marketing Educators’ Conference: Marketing the Organization and its Products and Services, held in Austin, Texas, in February.
College of Computing, Engineering and Construction
Dean’s Office: Dr. Jerry Merckel was invited to speak on “UNF Research Innovation” at the Jacksonville Chapter of American Mensa in February. Also in February, Merckel participated in an National Science Foundation Advisory Board review of the new computer engineering academic program at Bethune-Cookman College.
Department of Construction Management: Dr. Mag Malek hosted an exchange visit for 12 French Lycee Eugene-Livet students coming from Nantes, France, a Jacksonville sister city. This is an exchange program for construction management students between the two institutions. The visiting French students attended UNF construction management course lectures and were taken to various construction sites as well as a trip to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Malek also attended a nationwide interdisciplinary conference for academic chairs focusing on academic administration.
School of Engineering: Jean Fryman presented “What is an Engineer Anyway” to more than 250 students at the R. M. Patterson Elementary School and Cathedral Parish Day School as part of the School of Engineering’s K-12 Outreach Program.
School of Computing: Drs. Sherif Elfayoumy and Peter Wludyka, published “Bactermia in Patients with HIV and Hepatitis C: Analysis of the Dynamic Memory Management System (DMMS) Study” (with S. Maddirala, D. Bullock, K. Britt, S. Reddy, B. Cuhaci, R. Mars, G. Cu, V. Urquidi, L. Lambiase and N.S. Nahman Jr.), in the Journal of Investigative Medicine, Vol. 56 No. 1 and “Hepatitis C and Cirrhosis as Risk Factors for Bacteremia in Hemodialysis Patients” (co-authored by R. Sullivan, S. Reddy, K. Britt, S. Maddirala, B. Cuhaci, R. Mars, G. Cu, V. Urquidi, L. Lambiase, and N.S. Nahman Jr.), was presented at the American Federation for Medical Research Southern Regional Meeting in New Orleans in February.
Recent papers by Dr. Albert Ritzhaupt include: “Development of the Electronic Portfolio Student Perspective Instrument: An ePortfolio Integration Initiative” (with O. Sinngh, T. Seyferth and R. Dedrick), published in the Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Vol. 19, No. 2); “Trends in School Technology Planning, Funding and Socio-economic Status” and “Socio-economic Status and Technology Integration in Florida Schools: A Longitudinal Study” (with A.E. Barron, T. Hohfeld and K. Kemker), “The Effects of Time-compressed Audio and Adjunct Images on Learner Recall, Recognition and Satisfaction” (with Barron and W.A. Kealy) and “High and Low Associability in Spatial Mnemonics and Their Influence on Verbal Recognition” (with Kealy and L. Perez), each presented at the American Educational Research Association in New York City. Ritzhaupt’s “Conditions, Processes and Consequences of 1:1 Computing: The Impact on Teaching Practices and Student Achievement” (co-authored by Dr. Cathy Cavanaugh and K. Dawson), was presented and nominated for best paper award at the American Educational Research Association in New York City. The same article was also selected as the best paper at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education in Las Vegas, where it was published in the conference proceedings.
Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy has accepted invitation to serve as editorial board member for a special issue on service-oriented computing in the Journal of Database Management.
Dr. Charles Winton recently conducted two Botball Robotics Educator’s Workshops in California and Florida.
College of Education and Human Services
Dean’s Office: Drs. Larry Daniel, Otilia Salmon, Marsha Lupi and Claribel Torres were joined by Jacksonville University’s Dr. Christina Ramirez-Smith at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in New Orleans in February.