• Dr. M. Elizabeth Haywood-Sullivan, assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. Dorothy A. McMullen, associate professor of accounting, had an article, "Looking for Revenue in All the Wrong Places?," published in the September 2006 issue of the Tennessee CPA Journal.
• Dr. Ronald A. Hemmel, associate professor of music theory and composition, and artistic director of the Music Computing Center, had a composition performed on September 15 at the national conference of the College Music Society in San Antonio, TX. His “Piano Sonata,” a ten minute work written using serial techniques, was performed by Sylvia Parker, a member of the faculty at the University of Vermont.
• Dr. John Hulsman, professor of English, has an article-review of Philip Rule's recent study, “Coleridge and Newman” (Fordham University Press, 2006), in the Fall 2006 issue of Newman Studies Journal.
• Dr. E. Graham McKinley, professor of communication, received a Summer Fellowship to study radio in Rwanda. While there, she conducted interviews with radio stations and listeners. She also attended the International Communication Association's annual convention, this year held in Dresden, Germany, and chaired a panel, "Manufacturing Doubt: Journalists' Roles and the Construction of Ignorance in a Scientific Community," for the Journalism Studies Interest Group. She continues to serve as Webmaster for the group, which is now the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association.
• Dr. J. Drew Procaccino, associate professor of computer information systems, and June M. Verner, principal research scientist, Empirical Software Engineering Research Program, Australia, published the paper, “Software Project Managers and Project Success: An Exploratory Study” online in August in The Journal of Systems & Software, Volume 79, Number 2 p. 1541-1551. It will be published in print in November.
• Dr. Yun Xia, assistant professor of communication and journalism, published the research article, “Cultural Values, Communication Styles, and Use of Mobile Communication in China,” in the journal, China Media Research, Volume 2, Number 1, in April. The study in the article examines Chinese negotiation and renegotiation of mobile communication technology’s use in Chinese culture. In July, Dr. Xia also presented the paper, “Second Orality in the Language of Online Communication: New Symbolization of Thought, Symbolization of New Thought, and New Symbolization of New Thought,” at the Fourth Conference of the International Communicology Institute in Skagen, Denmark. The study in the paper uses German philosopher Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms to analyze the new discourse on the Internet.

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