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Publications
Michael Bognanno, associate professor of economics at the Fox School of Business, had “Trends in Worker Dispalacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005,” co-written by Ryo Kambayashi of Hitotsubashi University, Japan, published by the Institute of Labor Studies in July.
Deanna Geddes, associate professor of human resource management at the Fox School of Business, co-authored the article, “Crossing the Line(s): A Dual Threshold Model of Anger in Organizations” in July’s issue of Academy of Management Review, the academy’s flagship journal.
Michael Bognanno, associate professor of economics at the Fox School of Business, had his paper “Trends in Worker Displacement Penalties in Japan: 1991-2005,” co-written by Ryo Kambayashi of Hitotsubashi University, Japan, published by the Institute of Labor Studies.
Grants
Danny Dhanasekaran, of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research in the School of Medicine, has been awarded $120,000 for the first year of support with total funding estimated at $330,000 for the period June 1, 2007, to May 31, 2009 pending the availabilty of additional federal funds, by the National Institute for Cancer Research for the project "G-Protein Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer."
Yury Grabovsky, of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Science and Technology, has been awarded $236,457 for the period Aug. 1, 2007, through July 31, 2010, by the National Science Foundation for the project "Systematic Study of Instabilities in Non-Linear Elasticity and Martensitic Phase Transformations."
Deborah Howe, chair of the Department of Community and Regional Planning, has been awarded $200,000 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to research ways to “transform land use regulations to create livable communities that support physical activity in everyday life.” The grant is part of the foundation’s “Active Living Research” program.
Shiferaw Berhanu, of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Science and Technology, has been awarded $110,000 for three years of support beginning July 1, 2007, by the National Science Foundation for the project "Linera and nonlinear problems in CR manifolds."
Presentations
Tchet Dereic Dorman, director of Student Support Services in
the Office of Multicultural Affairs, presented "Afrocentricity and African American Survival: A Model for African American Social, Psychological and Political Self-Realization" at the Seventh International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations which held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 3-6.
William Aaronson, associate professor of risk, insurance and healthcare management at the Fox School of Business, presented a paper, “Does lower polyclinic efficiency increase efficiency in hospitals?” at the Sixth World Congress on Health Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 8 to 11. At the conference, he also served on the Scientific Committee of the International Health Economics Association and reviewed several abstracts being considered for presentation. Additionally, Aaronson chaired a session on Hospital Finance at the conference.
Michael Leeds, an associate professor of economics at the Fox School of Business, presented “National Institutions and Soccer success,” a paper co-authored with his wife, Eva Marikova Leeds, of Moravian College and currently a visiting professor at Temple University Japan, at the Western Economics Association Meetings in Seattle, June 30 to July 3. |
