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Rajendra P. Srivastava, the Ernst and Young Professor of Business, was honored with the best paper award at the fifth International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics in Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece. Srivastava presented the paper titled "An Evidential Reasoning Approach to Sarbanes-Oxley Mandated Internal Control Risk Assessment," which he co-authored with Ted Mock, Lili Sun and Miklos Vasarhelyi.
Ed O'Donnell, assistant professor of business, and Allen Ford, the Larry D. Horner/ KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting, were two of 30 invited professors to attend the KPMG 2008 Faculty Symposium in St. Louis. The two-day program serves as a forum for accounting professors and KPMG's professionals to discuss current technical topics and industry trends in accounting.
Maryemma Graham, professor of English, delivered a series of speeches and papers this summer in Europe and Japan to commemorate the 100th birthday of novelist and journalist Richard Wright. Graham, co-founder of the Richard Wright Circle, participated in several events earlier this year celebrating Wright's career and legacy, including programs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on March 29 and at Wright's birthplace on Feb. 21 in Natchez, Miss. Graham will speak at the Mississippi statewide birthday celebration Sept. 4.
Research conducted by Ron Ash, professor of business, and Joshua Rosenbloom, associate vice provost for research, was recently featured in the New York Times. The article discussed whether sexual discrimination in education has spread from sports to science and cited the researchers' finding that there were fewer women than men with personality preferences that would lead them to go into a career in computers.
Art Hall, director of the Center for Applied Economics at the School of Business, recently appeared at an economic development seminar hosted by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Hall co-hosted the seminar along with Tim Cowden of the Kansas City Area Development Council and discussed property, tax relief and job creation in the area. The program can be accessed through Sunflower Broadband's On Demand channel.
Paul Stephen Lim, professor of English, received the 2008 Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting Award from the Playwrights Program of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education at its annual ATHE conference, held July 31-Aug. 3 in Denver, Colo.
Ann Schofield, professor of American studies and women, gender and sexuality studies, gave the keynote address at the Transatlantic Women's History conference, held June 6 at Brunel University in London. Schofield will be a senior research fellow during the 2008-09 academic year at the Rothermere Ameriican Institute of Oxford University.
Ed Morris, chair of applied behavioral science, presented his co-authored paper, "History of Applied Behavior Analysis in the Treatment of Autism: Fathers, Originators, Founders," on June 26 at the meeting of the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Larry Mallett, chair of the Department of Music and Dance, attended the Commission on Accreditation meeting for the National Association of Schools of Music, held May 29-June 2 in Reston, Va. The 16-member commission supervises and finalizes the accreditation process for the association's 615 institutions of higher education. Mallett is also an evaluator and a team chair for NASM accreditation visits.
Stephanie Zelnick, assistant professor of clarinet, was invited to perform at the Bank of America Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series on Aug. 6 at the Chicago Cultural Center. The notable concert series was designed to provide live, free music for the public and to showcase talented young artists. Zelnick's concert featured works by Bartok and Mozart.
Nikhat Ghouse, social sciences librarian for anthropology, global indigenous nations studies and religious studies, presented her poster, titled "It's Your Library Too: Reach Out to Diverse Populations," at the American Library Association's annual conference, held June 30 in Anaheim, Calif.
Sarah Goodwin Thiel, digital services librarian for scholar services, chaired the Digital Imaging Best Practices Working Group, a Bibliographic Center for Research committee. The group produced a new version of the best practices document, "Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 2.0." The document is part of the Colorado Digitization Project lead by the center.
Mechele Leon, assistant professor of theatre, attended the annual conference for the American Association for Theatre in Higher Education and presented two papers, "La Langue du Theatre: French Theatre Vocabulary and Translatability," and "Why the French Don't Like Jerry Lewis: Physical Acting Training in France and the Myths of National Cultural Identity."
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