Several academic advisors in our Business Advisement Center attended the annual Missouri Academic Advising Association (MACADA) conference held at the Lake of the Ozarks in September. Karmen Brewer, Bethany Laws, Brittany Lescano, & Kim Stagner won “Best of Conference” for their presentation, “Exploring Advising Territories: Using a Personal Touch Approach to Engage and … [Read more...]
Faculty members continue to push the bounds of exceptional classroom experiences and research. Research and Awards Nancy Allen, senior instructor in Finance and General Business, was honored in St. Louis at the Women’s Justice Awards Banquet. She received the Missouri Women’s Justice Award in the Legal Scholar category, which recognizes women who demonstrate leadership, … [Read more...]
Two faculty members were selected to receive the Daisy Portenier Loucks Research Fellowship for 2014-2015: S. Brahnam, professor in the Computer Information Systems department Ed Chang, professor in the Finance and General Business department This fellowship is awarded annually to one or more COB faculty members who are among the top producers of discipline-based … [Read more...]
Dr. James E. Cofer Sr., professor in the Marketing Department, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and perform research at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the 2014-2015 academic year. Cofer will make use of models of student persistence behavior found in current research, as well as new models … [Read more...]
Associate Professor in Computer Information Systems S. Brahnam coauthored a new article. The article can currently be found online and will be published later this year. L. Nanni, S. Brahnam, S. Ghidoni, E. Menegatti and T. Barrier. A comparison of methods for extracting information from the co-occurrence matrix for subcellular classification, to appear in Expert Systems … [Read more...]