President’s Article Published in Anthology Mechanisms as Moderators of Agency Costs in a Pre-SOX Environment,” accepted for publication in the Journal for Business and Economics Scott Miller Research. The paper also won a best paper award at the 2009 Applied Business Research Conference in Waikiki, Hawaii. Miller’s paper investigates the effectiveness of governance mechanisms on agency costs of manufacturing firms on the NYSE. In addition, Miller recently completed Leadership Erie’s Executive Skills Development Program. Berwyn Moore, associate professor of
English, was named the inaugural poet laureate for Erie County. Moore received a $10,000 grant to fund a project of her choosing; she has begun compiling an anthology of poems and art by Erie County residents. Her many honors include a second-place award in a national poetry contest sponsored by The Pinch, a prestigious literary journal published by the University of Memphis.
Berwyn Moore Dawna T. Mughal, Ph.D., RD, LDN,
Anne M. O’Neill, director of the
advertising communications and sports management and marketing programs, was recently invited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to chair a sports management program review at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa. Duane “Rick” Prokop, Ph.D., assistant
professor of marketing and associate director of the Dahlkemper School of Business Administration, accepted a two-year appointment to the position of chairman of the Erie City Mission board of directors. Michele M. Roth-Kauffman, J.D., MPAS, PA-C, professor and chairperson of
Gannon’s physician assistant program, had an article published in the July 2009 edition of Clinician Reviews. The article is a peer-reviewed publication on endometriosis intended to meet the educational needs of physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. A book by Anjali Sahay, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science and director of Gannon’s international studies program, has been published and is now available at several major retailers. The 262-page book, Indian Diaspora in the United States, offers a new perspective on “brain drain.” Keith Taylor, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic affairs, gave a presentation at the No Name Facility Planning Conference in Niagara Falls, N.Y., last summer regarding the University’s approach to master planning.
Gannon’s director of athletic media relations, Daniel R. Teliski ’97, was named the 2008 Men’s Sports Information Director of the Year for the Southern Division
of the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA). In addition, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) declared the 2008-09 Gannon basketball game day program and its cover “Best in the Nation” among NCAA Division II institutions. The 2008 Gannon football game day program was tabbed third in the nation while the 2008-09 Gannon women’s basketball media guide was rated fifth in the country. Linda L. Wagner ’81, ’84M, vice president
for finance and administration, served as a member of the delegation that made the case for Erie in the National Civic League’s All-America City awards competition last fall. She was also recently named to the board of directors for both the Mercy Center for Women and the Erie Center on Health and Aging. Karla Mullenax Wludyga, director of public relations and communications and special assistant to the president, was named to the Board of Trustees for the Flagship Niagara League, which encourages citizen participation and operation of the Flagship Niagara and its homeport, Erie Maritime Museum. She was also recently named a member of the Erie Regional Advisory Board of EconomicsPennsylvania, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging an understanding of economic concepts through education.
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associate professor of nutrition and human performance and director of the medical technology program at Gannon, recently presented a paper at the 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities. Her paper, “Vitamin D for Health of Aging Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities,” highlighted the prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency as a global health problem.
A scholarly chapter written by President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D., was selected for inclusion in a new book, Black American Males in Higher Education: Diminishing Proportions. Garibaldi’s article, “The Educational Status of African American Males in the 21st Century,” is one of 14 chapters in Volume 6. He wrote an opinion/editorial column based on the chapter that has been published in: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education; The Josephite Harvest; the Erie Times-News and Talk Magazine.
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