Our Accomplish ments

We celebrate the accomplishments of UR’s talented faculty and staff.

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OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ASHLEY AUSTIN, assistant professor of accounting, received a grant from the Center for Audit Quality for her research “Detecting Fraud: A Proactive Approach to Improving Auditors’ Attention to Fraud During Audit Testing.”

TIM BARNEY, associate professor of rhetoric and communication studies, was named a Distinguished Research Fellow by the Eastern Communication Association.

BILL BERGMAN, instructor in marketing, was named a Favorite Business Professor of the Class of 2020 in a Poets&Quants annual survey.

KRISTIN BEZIO, associate professor of leadership studies, and George Goethals, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Leadership Studies, edited Leadership, Populism, and Resistance (Edward Elgar).

JENNIFER BOWIE, associate professor of political science, received the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the American Political Science Association, Law and Courts Section, in recognition of innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in the field of law and courts. Bowie published “Flowers v. Mississippi on Race in Jury Selection” in SCOTUS 2019 Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court (Palgrave Macmillan).

SUNNI BROWN, director of media and public relations; Lindsey Campbell, media relations specialist; and Cynthia Price, associate vice president of media and public relations, won first place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications contest in the Communications Programs and Campaigns – Community, Institutional, or Internal Relations category and second place in the Web and Social Media – Website Edited or Managed by Entrant – Nonprofit, Government, or Educational category. The two awards recognized the team’s strategic approach to elevate UR faculty-authored pieces with The Conversation as well as their work on developing UR’s Newsroom website as a destination for reporters in order to secure national media opportunities. Brown won second place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications contest in the Public Relations Materials – Reports category for The Conversation First-Year Report highlighting the Media and Public Relations team’s partnership with The Conversation. Brown and Campbell presented “Digitally Designed Pitching: Maximizing Digital Platforms for Media Relations” at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III annual conference in Orlando, Florida.

ELENA CALVILLO, associate professor of art history, received a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art for her book Rome in Translation: Cultural Brokerage in Sixteenth-century Italy.

LINDSEY CAMPBELL, media relations specialist; Sunni Brown, director of media and public relations; and Cynthia Price, associate vice president of media and public relations, won first place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications contest in the Communications Programs and Campaigns – Community, Institutional, or Internal Relations category and second place in the Web and Social Media – Website Edited or Managed by Entrant – Nonprofit, Government, or Educational category. The two awards recognized the team’s strategic approach to elevate UR faculty-authored pieces with The Conversation as well as their work on developing UR’s Newsroom website as a destination for reporters in order to secure national media opportunities. Campbell and Brown presented “Digitally Designed Pitching: Maximizing Digital Platforms for Media Relations” at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III annual conference in Orlando, Florida.

JEFFREY CARLSON, assistant professor of marketing, and Joel Mier, lecturer of marketing, published “Business buyers are people too: exploring how geodemographics affects business-to-business selling effectiveness” in the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing.

MICHELE COX, director of study abroad, and Brianne Meagher, transfer and curriculum analyst in the registrar’s office, presented “Study Abroad for Registrars” at the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.

MONTI DATTA, associate professor of political science, and Bob Spires, associate professor of education, published “Encompass Southeast Asia” in Education about Asia.