Category: Professional Notes

Srivastava Receives Second Fulbright Specialist Award

Mukesh Srivastava, associate professor of management information systems in the College of Business, has been awarded a second Fulbright Specialist grant in less than four years.Srivastava spent October 2011 in Tunisia as part of a Fulbright Specialist grant for 2011-12, where he developed a graduate program in management and information technology for the Tunis Business […]

Student Success Coordinator to Star in Independent Film

Brian Strecker, student success coordinator for Academic and Career Services, will play a role in an independent film set to hit theaters this fall called “The North Star.”The film describes two slaves who escape from a Virginia plantation in the mid 1800s. Strecker plays a store owner named Jeremiah Daniels who is involved in two […]

Bonds Publishes Article on Iraq and Afghanistan War Pollution

Assistant Professor of sociology Eric Bonds recently published an article in the journal Environmental Politics on the U.S. military’s practice of burning its solid waste in open-air pits or trenches during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  While there is growing recognition that emissions from this waste have negatively impacted U.S. service members, Bonds used Google […]

Marshall Presents Paper and Publishes Research Article

Andrew Marshall, assistant professor of Computer Science, presented a paper, “Unification and Matching in Hierarchical Combinations of Syntactic Theories,” at the 10th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems on Sept. 20 – 24. The paper will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, volume 9322. Andrew also recently co-authored a […]