Professional Activities

Scholarship

Kathleen Raske, Intercollegiate Athletics, served as the women’s assistant coach for the USA Track and Field National Team, representing the United States at the 2005 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in July.

Cynthia Linville, English, and co-authors received the 2004 Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book for ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors. The award was given by the International Writing Centers Association.

William A. Dorman, Government emeritus, met with BBC representatives in London over the summer about a project to better prepare American journalists for foreign affairs coverage. He also has the lead essay in Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate, a forthcoming book on how the world's press covered the run-up to the 2003 war with Iraq to be published in February by Palgrave Macmillan.

Mark Siegler and Kristin Van Gaasbeck, Economics, had their paper, "From the Great Depression to the Great Inflation: Path Dependence and Monetary Policy," published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Economics and Business.

Rafiqul Bhuyan, Business Administration, had several co-authored papers accepted for publication in peer reviewed journals. “Intertemporal Causality between S&P 500 Spot and Futures Prices: Evidence from Cointegration and Error Correction Models” will be published in the forthcoming ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance. “Do Futures and Option Introduction on Index Affect the Volatility and Trading Volume of the Underlying Stocks? Evidence from the DJIA Components" will appear in Derivatives Use, Trading, and Regulation. And “Presence of Informed Trading in Options Markets: An Experiment Using Monte Carlo Simulation” will appear in the Journal of Business and Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching. He also co-presented “Option Volume Contains Information: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Equity Option Market” to the Financial Management Association International in Oct. 12-16 in Chicago. He co-presented "Retrieving Information from Option Volume: An Experiment Using Monte Carlo Simulation” with at the Business and Leadership Symposium in September.

Chris Taylor, Physics and Astronomy, had his co-authored paper titled "A High Resolution Mosaic of Molecular Gas in Stephan's Quintet" published in the Nov. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

In the News

Kyle Lemoi, Theatre and Dance, was interviewed on Capital Public Radio's “Insight” program, along with two students, regarding the Department of Theatre and Dance's production of Anton in Show Business.