• Dr. Ava Baron, professor of sociology, co-authored an article with Dr. Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, entitled, “The Body as a Useful Category for Working-Class History,” to be published as the lead article in a special forthcoming issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class Histories of the Americas. The issue will also include comments on their article by renowned scholars, and an additional response article by Baron and Boris, “Dichotomous Thinking and the Objects of History, or Why Bodies Matter, Again.” Dr. Baron presented a paper, “Women Workers and the Corporeal State,” at the Organization of American Historians, in Minneapolis, MN on March 31.
• Dr. Daria Cohen, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures (Spanish), delivered the paper, “Journeys to Self in Patagonia: Carlos Sorin’s Historias Mínimas” at the Northeast Modern Language Association’s (NEMLA) Convention in Baltimore on March 2. The paper was part of a panel on Latin American/Latino Cinema. Dr. Cohen also chaired a NEMLA panel titled “Transatlantic Women’s Voices in Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Theater.”
• Dr. Cengiz Haksever, chairperson of the management sciences department, and Dr. John Moussourakis, professor of management sciences, authored two articles expected to be published this year ? “Determining Order Quantities in Multi-Product Inventory Systems Subject to Multiple Constraints and Incremental Discounts” in the “European Journal of Operational Research,” and “Models for Accurate Computation of Earliest and Latest Start Times and Optimal Crashing in Project Networks” in the “Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.”
• Dr. Mitchell Ratner, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Steven Klein, associate professor of management sciences, presented a paper entitled “The Portfolio Implications of Gold Investment” on March 16 at the 2007 Southwestern Finance Association meeting in San Diego.
• Dr. Zaher Zantout, associate professor of finance, had two articles accepted for publication. The first, “Under Reaction to Dividend Reductions and Omissions?” was accepted for publication in “The Journal of Finance,” a leading finance publication, with co-authors Yi Liu, assistant professor of finance at Capital University, Columbus, OH, and Samuel Szewczyk, associate professor of finance at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. The second, “Long-term Stock Performance Following Extraordinary and Special Cash Dividends,” was accepted for publication in “The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finances” with co-authors De-Wai Chou, assistant professor of finance at Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, R.O.C., and Liu.

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