Writing about socio-scientific issues

Meena Balgopal (formerly Biosciences Dept. and currently at Colorado State University) and Alison Wallace, Biosciences, have published a featured article “Writing about socio-scientific issues: a “write” way to improve decision-making skills” in the March issue of “The American Biology Teacher” journal of the National Association of Biology Teachers.

Paul Sando authors chapter

Dr. Paul Sando, Anthropology and Earth Science, has authored a chapter of the book; Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies (Conway, Kyle, and Tim Pasch, Editors), now entering the final proof prior to printing at MacGill-Queen’s University Press in Canada. The chapter is titled; Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains […]

Mary Stone presented paper at international business administration meeting

Mary Stone, School of Business, presented her paper entitled “Performance Differences Between Online and Traditional Students in Principles of Accounting” at the Midwest Business Administration Association International annual meeting in February 2013. The research provided support for Simonson et al’s (1999) Equivalency Theory by comparing the course assessment scores for the two groups of students.

Geography professor invited to present at the Canadian Transportation Research Forum

Dr. Paul Sando, Associate Professor of Geography, has been invited and accepted to present at the Canadian Transportation Research Forum’s annual meeting, June 10-12, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His presentation/article is titled, “Railroads, Adaptability, Competition and the Shuttle Train (or Food, Crude, and the Railroads).” The focus of the research on the railroad’s addition of large oil movements out of […]