Academics & Research

On May 9, Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, presented his paper, "An Investigation of Fitts' Law in a Multiple-Display Environment" at the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Austin, Texas.

Education professor Cherrel Miller Dyce and eight of her Elementary Education student teachers participated in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Triad Teacher as Researcher Conference on April 25, 2012.

Associate Professor of Physics Tony Crider was the featured speaker at a regional Reacting to the Past conference held May 7 at Loypla Marymount University.

Earl Honeycutt, Martha and Spencer Love Term Professor of Marketing, co-authored an article entitled, “Measuring sales training effectiveness at the behavior and results levels using self- and supervisor evaluations.”

Communications associate professor Michael Frontani’s book “The Beatles: Image and the Media” is now available as a digital download audiobook.

Betsy Stevens, associate professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, participated in the Ethics Roundtable hosted at Cornell University April 29-30.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Chad Awtrey has published a research paper in the current volume of the Houston Journal of Mathematics.

Stephen DeLoach, professor of economics in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had a paper titled “Creating Quality Undergraduate Research Programs in Economics: How, When, Where (And Why)” published in The American Economist.

Visiting Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies Samuele Pardini presented a paper titled "Images of Italian Americans in African American literature during Jim Crow," at the "Reimagining White Ethnicity. Expressivity, Identity, Race" conference held at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City, on April 27-28, 2012.

Professor of History Jim Bissett presented a paper titled "Demanding Democracy: The Socialist Movement and Oklahoma Politics" at the Woody Guthrie Symposium hold at the University of Tulsa in March 2012, as part of the celebration to honor the legendary American folksinger 100th anniversary.