{"id":17528,"date":"2012-07-27T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T00:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17528"},"modified":"2014-12-16T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:07:07","slug":"faculty-notes-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/07\/faculty-notes-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Notes: July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
Joyce J. Elam, executive dean, was chosen to receive the Education Award from the Coral Gables Community Foundation. The theme of the 21st<\/sup> anniversary celebration, at which the awards will be presented, is Club Monaco.<\/p>\n School of Accounting<\/em><\/p>\n Manny Pravia (MST \u201992), adjunct, was quoted in The JOBS Act of 2012: Tools, Tips, and Tactics<\/em>, published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).<\/p>\n Abhijit Barua and Antoinette L. Smith were promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure.<\/p>\n Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHealth information technology education: prescription and dosage for the IS community,\u201d an article by Monica Chiarini Tremblay, assistant professor, has been accepted for publication in Communications of the AIS<\/em>, a high-quality journal.<\/p>\n Debra VanderMeer was promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure.<\/p>\n Department of F<\/em>inance and Real Estate<\/em><\/p>\n William Hardin, professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, and Ken H. Johnson, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, were quoted in \u201cSouth Florida home values show \u2018dramatic\u2019 increase, but rollercoaster may not be over<\/a>,\u201d in the Palm Beach Post<\/em> on July 24, 2012.<\/p>\n Xiaoquan Jiang, Edward Lawrence and Zhonghua Wu were promoted to the rank of associate professor and awarded tenure.<\/p>\n Department of Management and International Business<\/em><\/p>\n Members of the department had a strong presence at the Academy of International Business (AIB) annual conference, \u201cRethinking the roles of business, government and NGOs in the global economy,\u201d held in Washington, DC July 30-July 3, 2012. Mary Ann Von Glinow, professor and Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Chair in International Management, is AIB president; Galen Kroeck, professor, served on the Haynes Prize Selection Committee; and Sumit Kundu, professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, organized the Doctoral Consortium. The best paper from each of the 12 Conference Tracks was selected for consideration for the Temple\/AIB Best Paper Award, which was awarded to Sokol Celo (PhD \u201911) and Aya Chacar, associate professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow, for \u201cCountry relatedness and international coherence.\u201d A number of faculty members and PhD students presented during the conference and faculty members chaired many of the sessions. Faculty participants included Jose de la Torre, professor emeritus; G. Ronald Gilbert, clinical professor; Nathan Hiller, associate professor; William Newburry, associate professor and SunTrust Bank Professorship in International Business; Ronaldo Parente, associate professor; David A. Ralston, professor and Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow; Donald Roomes, senior instructor; and David Wernick (PhD \u201911), senior lecturer.<\/p>\n