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Seven College of Business faculty members will present their work at the fourth faculty research colloquium on Friday, April 27. The presentations will take place in the Stafford Campus North Building from 1 to 3 p.m.

John St. Clair and Lou Martinette will present “Change Management for Higher Education Learning Management Systems Transitions,” Christopher Garcia will present “Robust Optimization Models for Volunteer Scheduling” and Bob Greene and Margaret Mi will present “A Systems Model for Teaching Human Resource (People) Management.”

Also, Mukesh Srivastava and Lou Martinette will present “Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage” and Gladys Gomez will present “WISE Fraud Case.”

For presentation abstracts and information about the colloquium, read the full program.

Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, has been accredited to attend the 2012 Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, which will be held in Washington D.C. from Friday, April 20 through Sunday, April 22. He also will participate in the Civil Society Policy Forum that will be held during the week of the meetings.

On Tuesday, March 27, Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, was granted a patent for “Automated Generation of Metadata for Mining Image and Text Data” from the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.

The patent, first filed in March 2008, is a tangible, computer-readable medium that is encoded with instructions for automatically generating metadata. It is an automated metadata system using digital objects to reduce the volume of the dataset and allowing users to perform a search easier and quicker.

Debra Hockenberry, visiting instructor of management and marketing, will present “The Ontological Phenomenon of the Unseen and the Unheard that Predicts the Propensity of Futuring™ within Creative Deviance, Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship” at the 21st Annual Conference of SC’MOI (The Standing Conference on Management and Organizational Inquiry) from Thursday, April 12 through Saturday, April 14.

Also, she will present “A Co-Posited Approach to Time, Space and Matter within Intrapreneurship” at the fourth International Conference of the Academy of Management and ISEOR Research Center on Organization Development and Change in Lyon, France in June.

In August, Hockenberry will present “Mother, Must I Start My Own Business? A Qualitative Socio-Economic View of Single Mothers in the United States” at the 2012 Ethnography Symposium at the University of Liverpool’s Management School in Liverpool, England.

Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services for the College of Business, is serving as a proposal reader for the Annual Conference for the Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) to be held in Nashville, Tenn., in October 2012.

She attended the semi-annual meeting of the Association of Virginia Individualized Studies Administrators (AVISA) at the University of Virginia on Friday, March 9.