Faculty and staff news
Kevin W. Bruny, SPHR, adjunct instructor of human resource management, is a contributing author in the recently published book The Next Generation of Corporate Universities: Innovative Approaches for Developing People and Expanding Organizational Capabilities (Wiley, March 2007) where he details the development and launch of a corporate university in a local government setting. As the chief learning officer and university dean of Chesterfield University, Kevin led Chesterfield County, Va., to be the first local government to recently appear on Training magazine’s Top 125, an annual ranking of companies leading the way in employee training and development where the county ranked 53rd on the 2007 listing.
Suzanne Jones, professor of English and women, gender and sexuality studies, spoke March 23 at the 14th Oxford Conference for the Book in Oxford, Miss., which was dedicated to the life and works of novelist Larry Brown. She was invited to be a panelist for the “Writing about Larry Brown” session, which Professor Jay Watson of the University of Mississippi moderated. She joined other authors to sign copies of their books at a marathon book signing that closed the conference.
Juliette Landphair, dean of Westhampton College, gave an invited talk, “A Tale of Two Wards: The Past as Prologue in the Lower Ninth Ward,” at a multidisciplinary conference sponsored by the University of South Alabama and The Journal of American History March 7–10 in Mobile, Ala. The conference examined the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Lucretia McCulley, head, outreach and instruction, (with Dan Ream from Virginia Commonwealth University) presented a program titled “Who Do You Trust: Wikipedia and the Authority of Anonymous Strangers” at the 13th Association of College and Research Libraries’ national conference March 30. She will participate on a panel discussion about Wikipedia April 9 as part of the Virginia Commonwealth University program series “Creating & Consuming Culture in the Digital Age,” an NEH Year Program funded by the VCU Honors College.
Sandra Peart, incoming dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, had her book, The Vanity of the Philosopher, named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice, the primary review publication for academic librarians.
Glenn Pruden, CEC, executive chef for University Dining Services, has received the Virginia Chef’s Association’s highest honor: Chef of the Year for 2006. Pruden was cited for his dedication and commitment to continuing education in the culinary arts at the University of Richmond and in the community, as well as his devotion to the highest standards for culinary excellence in every aspect of the food service industry.
N. Elizabeth Schlatter, deputy director and curator of exhibitions, University Museums, presented a paper titled “Yes the Curator Has a Point of View. Now Can We Move On?” at the 2007 annual conference of the College Art Association in New York. She also participated as a panelist for a session organized by the Association of Art Museum Curators.
A paper by Porcher Taylor, associate professor of paralegal studies, and former Robins School of Business Assistant Professor Joseph Coombs was selected one of the “Top 40” papers from more than 200 research papers presented at the 2006 annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) held at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington. Babson College will publish the paper, titled “Non-competition Agreements and Research Productivity in the Biotechnology Industry,” along with the other “Top 40” papers in their entirety this spring in the 2006 issue of the book Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Research representing institutions from around the globe including leading Babson faculty research is included as part of the book.