Academics & Research

Kevin O’Mara, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, published a paper entitled “The Strategic Case for Mass Customization” in the summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences.

Professor Mary Gowan was a member of a panel on "Building the Management PhD Pipeline" at the recent Southern Management Association annual meeting held in Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10-12, 2011.

Associate Director of Academic Support, Troy Martin, presented his paper "The Professionalization of Human Interaction: A Multi-perspective Critique of Ethical Code" at the 2011 AESA conference in St. Louis, Mo. This year's conference theme was "education and human rights."

Matthew Valle, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his research published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Journal of Character and Leadership Integration.

Buffie Longmire-Avital, an assistant professor in psychology presented her research poster titled "Why Compromise (?): Assessing Sexually Risky Decisions for Heterosexual Black American Women," at the annual conference for The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in Houston Texas, Nov. 3 - 5.

School of Communications assistant professor Phillip Motley and associate professor Amanda Sturgill each presented work at the International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (IARSLCE) annual conference Nov. 2-4 in Chicago.

John Burbridge, professor of operations and supply chain management, delivered an invited lecture on Oct. 27, 2011, at the Florida State College of Law.

Associate professors Samantha DiRosa and Ken Hassell of the Department of Art and Art History presented at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education national conference at Amherst College Nov. 11-13.

Professor of Legal History at Elon Law and Professor of History at Elon University David Crowe discussed "International Humanitarian Law and the Path to the Hague" at the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center at Columbia University on Oct. 24.

Amy Allocco, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, delivered a lecture titled “Visual Language, Architecture, and Memory in the Collages of a Contemporary Tamil Muslim Artist” at the Dishman Museum at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.