In the fall, 2005, the Research Policy Committee - the University standing Committee charged with making recommendations to the Provost regarding policies concerning research - joined forces with the Office of the Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity to begin a presentation series that highlights the individual research agendas of MSU's faculty and staff. The presentations, which take place each month at 12:30 p.m., features one presenter and a lunch (resources allowing) compliments of the Provost. The location varies. Anyone interested in presenting at a Brown-Bag is encouraged to share that interest with Dr. Bertus Ferreira, Professor of Criminal Justice, who handles scheduling presenters. All other questions regarding the series should be directed to Jody Cofer.
The dates remaining for the fall 2012 semester are:
November 14
Past Presenters/Presentations Include:
- Constance Alexander, Kilroy was Here
- Michael Basile,
Founding a New University in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Issues to Consider Under Unusual Circumstances
- Fred Bates, Leadership and Evaluation for Future Leaders
- Martin Battle,
Second-class representatives or work horses? Committee assignments and electoral incentives in the new Scottish Parliament
- Ann Beck, Public Sector Employment and the Health Insurance Benefit: A Research Agenda
- Ann Beck, Doing Applied Research: "Sick" Statistics, Handout 1, Handout 2
- Ann Beck, Kentucky's Health
- Michael Bokeno,
Complexity is Critical: Chaos, Humans and Organization
- Michael Bowman, Mobile Communications for Emergency Management and Crisis Response
- Gary Brockway, Engaging the Digital Student in the Digital Age
- Judy Brookhiser, Emotional Intelligence and Camp Staff Evaluations: An exploratory study
- Constance Alexander, Smithsonian Institution Exhibit: Journey Stories – Oral Histories of Between the Rivers People & Communities
- Corky Broughton,
To Students With Love: Maximizing Our Effectiveness Through Understanding Andragogy and Learning Styles
- Ted Brown, ’And that’s true too’: The Importance of Intellectual Flexibility in Othello and King Lear
- Brian Clardy,
Deconstructing a Theology of Defiance: Black Preaching and the Politics of Racial Identity
- Cindy Clemson, Practical Strategies for Teaching University Students with Asperger Syndrome and other Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Crystal Coleman,
To Students With Love: Maximizing Our Effectiveness Through Understanding Andragogy and Learning Styles
- Dick Dougherty, Still-Life Painting as Personal Narrative
- Bertus Ferreira, The Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security
- Bertus Ferreira,
Criminal Trial Juries: Constitutional, but crazy?
- Jeffrey Frame, Critically Evaluating Results of the Women’s Health Initiative: Does Decreasing Dietary Fat Intake Reduce Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women?
- Daniel Hepworth,
Empirical Evaluation of U.S. Counterterrorism Measures in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Lara Homsey, What’s For Dinner? Reconstructing Diet and Cooking Technologies at the Archaeological Site of Dust Cave, Alabama
- Thomas Glover, The Evolution of the American Corporation
- Thomas Glover, Citizens United Case and Corporate Free Speech
- Randal Keller,
Destroying the Stockpiles: Studies by the National Research Council Supporting the Safe Elimination of Chemical Weapons in the United States
- Kate King, Interviewing Families of Murder Victims
- Kelly Kleinhans, Preparing Potential Communicative Partners: An Individualized Clinical Intervention for Persons with Severe Communication Impairments
- James La Valle, Rebuilding at Gun-Point: A City Level Re-Estimation of the Brady Law and RTC Laws in the Wake of Hurricane “Katrina”
- James La Valle, Re-Estimating Existing Gun-Policy According to a National Academy of Science Report: Were Previous Reports of Failure Pre-Mature?
- Bob Lochte, Christian Radio in a New Millennium
- Dot Marinos,
Domestic Violence: Why do victims stay?
- Maeve McCarthy, Salamanders and Equations: Why Mathematics and Biology Belong Together
- Bill Mulligan, From the Emerald Isle to the Copper Island: Irish Copper Miners in the Michigan Copper Country, 1845-1900
- Adam Murray and Latrice Booker, The USA PATRIOT Act and Libraries: History and Impact on Library Users
- Joy Navan, Gifted Students in High School and College
- Peggy Pittman-Munke,
To Students With Love: Maximizing Our Effectiveness Through Understanding Andragogy and Learning Styles
- Martin Roper,
The Art of Teaching Creative Writing
- John Spinda, Keep it local or keep it out?
- Wade Northington, Avian Influenza: The next pandemic?
- Wade Northington,
Swine Flu and Bird Flu-What's the latest?
- Debbie Owens, Framing Cultural Discourse through Conflict: Reactions to the Film "Crash"
- Peggy Pittman-Munke, Plagiarism: Prevention versus Intervention
- Richard Scott, George Gershwin and Ernesto Lecuona: popular classics for the piano
- Kit Wesler, An Archaeologist’s View of Global Climate Change
- Wendy Wilson, Grant Application Information
Copies of handouts made available at presentations will be posted as they become available.