Joan Doremus (Auxiliary Services) completed the Customer Service Competency Focus offered by the Office of Human Resources. This mini certificate is offered completely online and is designed to help you excel in delivering excellent customer service. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff. John […]
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Donna Boling (University Police) completed the Workplace Professional Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for developing the skills of our support staff. Click this link to learn more about competency focus and certificate programs available to all faculty and staff. Sara Arnold-Garza (Research & […]
Faculty & Staff Kudos
Faculty Kudos College of Liberal Arts Lena Ampadu (English) presented a paper, “Women’s Identities and the Immigrant Experience in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brown Stones,” at the College Language Association conference in New Orleans on March 27. Jennifer Ballengee (English) presented a paper, “Tragedy, Memory, and Community,” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference at NYU. She […]
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College of Business & Economics Daniel Singer, Finance, and Doug Ross and Doug Sanford, Management, received Best Paper Award in the Innovative Education Track from the 2014 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI) Conference in Philadelphia this March for their paper titled “Does Course Convenience Equal Learning? That’s What Our Students Think.” College of Fine […]
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College of Education Richard E. Vatz (Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development) was the featured speaker at the winter meeting of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Greater Baltimore on February 27, 2014. His topic was “Political Scandals and What to Make of Them.” Vatz was also a guest on WBFF to speak about […]
Faculty & Staff Kudos
Faculty Kudos College of Business and Economics David Brannon (Management) presented a paper, “Creating Innovative Business Models,” at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in Fort Worth, Texas in January. Islam Elshahat and Aru Rao (Accounting) had an article, “Does Corporate Governance Improve Bankruptcy Prediction?,” accepted for publication in Accounting and […]
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Faculty Kudos Honors College Andrew Reiner (English) was a featured contributor to the cultural arts radio show “The Signal” on Baltimore’s NPR affiliate WYPR-FM. Reiner read aloud an essay that explores the costs of social perfection on college students who use Facebook. Listen to the piece at http://wypr.org/post/signal-11714. Andrew Reiner (English) had an essay titled “Love, […]
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Faculty Kudos Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics Jay Zimmerman (Mathematics) gave a talk, “Large Odd Order Groups of Fixed Genus” at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore on Friday, January 17, 2014. More information can be obtained at http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2014/2160_program_friday.html. The talk describes joint work with Dr. Coy L. May. […]
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College of Education Jason Ezell (Library) authored an article titled, “Interlibrary Loan From a Distance Learning Perspective: Trying a Hybrid Position” in Volume 23, Issue 3 of the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve. Sarah Arnold-Garza (Library) published an article titled, “The flipped classroom: Assessing an innovative teaching model for effective and […]
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Faculty Kudos College of Education Katherine Holman (Special Education) was awarded the Disability Advocate of the Year award from the Baltimore County Commission on Disabilities http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/neighborhoodimprovement/disabilities/ Katherine Holman (Special Education) presented a paper entitled “Building Social Connections for Young Children with Autism” at the annual American Speech-Language and Hearing Conference in Chicago, IL on November […]
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Faculty Kudos College of Education Richard E. Vatz (Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development) organized, chaired and presented a panel titled “The Obama Presidency and Republican Opposition Watch in Year Five: The Rhetoric and Politics of Governing and Forging Foreign Policy” at the National Communication Association (NCA) national convention in Washington in November. He […]
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College of Education Richard E. Vatz, Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development, appeared on Fox news nationally Nov. 7-8 to comment on President Obama’s promises to ensure that the Affordable Health Care Act would not make anyone lose their coverage or their doctor. Locally, he appeared Nov. 7 on WBFF to talk about the […]
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Faculty Kudos College of Business and Economics Michaël Dewally and Yingying Shao (Department of Finance) along with Tim Yeager of the University of Arkansas had a paper titled “Liquidity crisis, relationship lending and corporate finance” accepted for publication in the Journal of Banking and Finance. Michaël Dewally, Susan Flaherty and Daniel Singer (Department of Finance) […]
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Faculty Kudos College of Liberal Arts Alan Britt, Department of English, was honored when 14 of his poems were translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar. Along with an introduction to Britt, his poems appeared as a special feature in the popular Irodalmi Jelen journal distributed throughout Romania, Hungary and Europe in general. They can we viewed at […]
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Dr. Bill Sadera, College of Education, and Dr. Kathy Gould, College of Health Professions, authored a chapter on pedagogy in online learning as part of the recently released text, Developing Online Learning Environments in Nursing Education (3rd ed.). This is the third edition of the best-selling nurse educator’s handbook on using online teaching tools and […]
Staff Kudos
Debbie Seberger, Office of the President, was recognized as the alumna of the quarter by the Human Resource Development Graduate Program for the Summer Quarter, 2013. Additional information available at Tiger Tracks. Greg Primrose, Information Technology Coordinator for the Division of Student Affairs, placed second in the Snowscape, Color category of the Photography competition at […]
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College of Liberal Arts – English Department Katherine Attié had two articles published last year: “Passion Turned to Prettiness: Rhyme or Reason in Hamlet” in Shakespeare Quarterly 63 (2012) and “Selling Science: Bacon, Harvey, and the Commodification of Knowledge” in Modern Philology 110 (2013). David Belz read his “Gift of the Cicadas” on WYPR-88’s “The Signal” on […]
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Mike Noll, Office of Human Resources, was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Advisor of the Year Award by Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity for his dedicated and loyal service as a Collegiate Chapter Advisor at Towson University. The award was announced at the organization’s National Convention, held in Philadelphia, on August 3. Towson’s Parking and Transportation […]
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Cook Library Joyce Garczynski, Communications & Development Librarian, authored the feature article in Programming Librarian, an online magazine for librarians who organize library events. The article is titled “Adventures in Program Assessment at Towson University.” College of Education Richard E. Vatz, ILPD, was the only guest on WBAL’s Jimmy Mathis Show on August 10. The […]
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College of Education Richard E. Vatz, Instructional Leadership and Professional Development Department, published an article in USA Today Magazine’s July, 2013 issue with Professor Jeffrey Schaler of American University titled “Therapeutic Theory: Psychiatry’s Irresponsible Deception,” an expanded piece on the new DSM-5. On July 22, Dr. Vatz also commented on Fox regional television on President […]
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