Faculty kudos

College of Business and Economics

Erin Steffes, Marketing and E-Business, and Laurence Burgee, Marketing and E-Business, had an article, Social Ties and Online Word of Mouth: Do the Rules Hold? accepted by Internet Research.

Ning Gao, Finance, is the author of a book, Firm Value: What does Stock and Accounting Performance tell us about Corporate Outsourcing? published on September 10 by VDM-pubishing.

College of Education

Elizabeth Dicembre and the TU Reading Clinic received a 2008 Program Excellence Award from the Maryland Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.The clinic was honored for 40 years of educational excellence and its outreach to struggling readers throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Todd Kenreich, Secondary Education, is a Fulbright Foundation Scholar at Kansai University of International Studies in Japan for the fall semester.

Steve Mogge, Barbara Laster, Bess Altwerger and Gilda Martinez, M.Ed. Reading Program, presented at the World Reading Congress in Costa Rica. Also participating were students from California, Washington and Maryland who participating in a TU study-abroad course.

Montana McCormick, Secondary Education, and Gloria Neubert, Secondary Education,  have had an article, Scaffolding Subject-Specific Literacy Instruction for Preservice Teacher Candidates,  accepted for publication in The Reading Professor.  

Gloria Neubert, Secondary Education, published The Adolescent Brain--or Harry, How Could You?! in ASCD, October 2. Read it at  ASCDExpress.

College of Fine Arts and Communication

Jan Baum, Art, invites colleagues to participate in her "i didn't thank you" project, located in the atrium on the second floor of the Center for the Arts. i didn't thank you, which is the first project of Baum's Social Design course, provides an opportunity to express our thanks for people that we didn't, couldn't, or wouldn't thank.

College of Liberal Arts

Clarinda Harriss, English, reports that Grub Street, TU's literary magazine, received a the Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for its 2007 issue. GS 2007 had already won the Gold Circle Award in CSPA’s traditional competition. CSPA also offered the Gold Crown Award, a “walk-around” style of group judging held at Columbia University. Harriss serves as Grub Street adviser.

Diane Scharper, English, writes a Books in Brief: Local column for The Baltimore Sun that focuses on books of local interest. View her September 21 picks at Baltimoresunbooksinbrief.

Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

Sarah Haines, Biological Sciences, has been elected a 2008-2009 SENCER Leadership Fellow by the National Fellowship Board of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. Fellowships honor educators for their exemplary leadership and commitment to the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.