Notables
Members of the American Marketing Association (AMA) received an award for Outstanding Community Service for 2007-2008 at the recent International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans. Four members of AMA attended the conference: Jessi Bays (president), a senior accounting major from O’Fallon, Mo.; Lisa Buckley, a junior pre-business administration major from Manchester, Mo.; Jeff Jackman, a senior business administration major from St. Louis; and Andrew Cross, a senior business administration major from Crestwood, Mo. The students were accompanied by Datha Damron-Martinez, assistant professor of business administration.
Lee Anne Flagg, a senior sociology/anthropology major from New Berlin, Wis., has been selected to participate in the Undergraduate Honors Program of the American Sociological Association (ASA) at their annual meeting Aug. 1-4 in Boston. Participants come from sociology departments across the U.S. and around the world, and must be academically exceptional students whose grades and professors attest to their abilities. Honors Program students participate actively in the Annual Meetings of the ASA, develop important networks with their peers across the nation, and have the opportunity to meet with prominent scholars in the discipline. Participation in the Honors Program provides a significant socialization experience early in the careers of the next generation of sociologists.
Amber Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, presented a paper titled “Distinguishing Environmental and Density-Dependent Aspects of Adaptation” in a session on “Mid-Holocene Behavioral Strategies in the Americas” at the Society for American Archaeology meetings March 25-30 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Hannah Kay, a senior Russian major from Springfield, Ill., has been selected as the April IIEPassport Student of the Month. A resource of EducationDynamics, IIEPassport.org is a study abroad directory on the Internet, and is supported by the Institute of International Education. The Web site showcases a student every month, and Kay, who spent a semester in Moscow, Russia, is the latest. An interview with Kay can be found at http://info.iiepassport.org/students/hannah-kay.html.
Elaine McDuff, associate professor of sociology, attended the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) meeting, March 27-29 in St. Louis. She participated in a panel on “Building the Global Justice Movement in the U.S.: The World Social Forum and the U.S. Social Forum,” organized a session on “Women and Religion,” and was elected chair of the MSS Nominations and Elections Committee.
John James Quinn, associate professor of political science, recently published an article titled: “The Effects of Majority State Ownership of Significant Economic Sectors on Corruption: A Cross-Regional Comparison” in International Interactions 31, 1 (2008): 84-128. He also delivered a paper at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference “African Economic Development” at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, March 16-18. It was titled “The Mineral Resource Curse in Africa: What Role does Majority State Ownership Play?”. The paper was co-written by Ryan Conway, a senior philosophy and religion and political science double major from Kirksville.
Lee Anne Flagg, a senior sociology/anthropology major from New Berlin, Wis., has been selected to participate in the Undergraduate Honors Program of the American Sociological Association (ASA) at their annual meeting Aug. 1-4 in Boston. Participants come from sociology departments across the U.S. and around the world, and must be academically exceptional students whose grades and professors attest to their abilities. Honors Program students participate actively in the Annual Meetings of the ASA, develop important networks with their peers across the nation, and have the opportunity to meet with prominent scholars in the discipline. Participation in the Honors Program provides a significant socialization experience early in the careers of the next generation of sociologists.
Amber Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, presented a paper titled “Distinguishing Environmental and Density-Dependent Aspects of Adaptation” in a session on “Mid-Holocene Behavioral Strategies in the Americas” at the Society for American Archaeology meetings March 25-30 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Hannah Kay, a senior Russian major from Springfield, Ill., has been selected as the April IIEPassport Student of the Month. A resource of EducationDynamics, IIEPassport.org is a study abroad directory on the Internet, and is supported by the Institute of International Education. The Web site showcases a student every month, and Kay, who spent a semester in Moscow, Russia, is the latest. An interview with Kay can be found at http://info.iiepassport.org/students/hannah-kay.html.
Elaine McDuff, associate professor of sociology, attended the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) meeting, March 27-29 in St. Louis. She participated in a panel on “Building the Global Justice Movement in the U.S.: The World Social Forum and the U.S. Social Forum,” organized a session on “Women and Religion,” and was elected chair of the MSS Nominations and Elections Committee.
John James Quinn, associate professor of political science, recently published an article titled: “The Effects of Majority State Ownership of Significant Economic Sectors on Corruption: A Cross-Regional Comparison” in International Interactions 31, 1 (2008): 84-128. He also delivered a paper at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference “African Economic Development” at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, March 16-18. It was titled “The Mineral Resource Curse in Africa: What Role does Majority State Ownership Play?”. The paper was co-written by Ryan Conway, a senior philosophy and religion and political science double major from Kirksville.
