LSUS News - LSU Shreveport

• Kristin Fiser has been named as assistant director of human resource management. The Captain Shreve High School graduate received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Northwestern State University. She comes to LSUS after spending nine years with Robert Half International, a staffing firm in Pleasanton, Calif., where she was a senior curriculum developer in the Training Department.

• Susannah Orman Stinson has been named associate vice chancellor for university development. The Franklinton native received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Louisiana Tech University in May 2000, and Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in May 2003. She is a member of the Shreveport Bar Association and Louisiana State Bar Association and is a provisional candidate for membership in the Junior League of Shreveport-Bossier. She lives in Shreveport with her husband, Ford E. Stinson III.

• Pri Hansini Chaskar, a senior sports science student at the University of Malaya, is carrying out a three-month internship in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science. She is working with Dr. Kyle Pierce, associate professor of kinesiology and health science and director of the USA Weightlifting Development Center. She is also involved in several other sports science activities with other faculty members during her stay in Shreveport. Her internship is part of a formal arrangement between LSUS and UM that has involved a Fulbright visit to UM by Dr. Ron Byrd, professor of kinesiology and health science; a sabbatical at LSUS by Dr. Teoh Heng Teong, director of the UM Sports Center, and a previous student internship at LSUS.
• Dr. Harvey Rubin, professor of finance and holder of the Kilpatrick Life Insurance Endowed Chair, and Dr. Carlos Spaht II, professor of mathematics and holder of the AEP SWEPCO LaPREP Professorship, jointly presented two papers – “Financial Independence for Life Course as Part of the High and Middle School Curricula” and “Application of the Mathematics of Finance Curriculum in a Secondary School Environment” – at the March meeting of the National Business and Economic Society Conference in Los Cabos, Mexico. Spaht also presented two papers at the March ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference in Baton Rouge. He co-authored “A Solution to the Dividend Tax Rate Problem” with Takako Ball, a recent LSUS math graduate, and was the sole author of “Secrets for Making a Successful Enrichment Program.”
• Dr. Ron Byrd, professor of kinesiology and health science, and Donna Byrd, administrative assistant in American Studies, will present a paper, “The International Lincoln Brigade,” at the annual conference of the International Society of Political Psychology in Barcelona, Spain. Their paper deals with the Americans who served in the Spanish Civil War in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Donna Byrd will also chair a conference session.
• Dr. Jason Lee’s paper, “Earnings Management and Stock Options,” has been accepted for presentation at the 2006 Ohio AAA Meeting. Lee is an assistant professor of accounting.

• Dr. Michael V. Leggiere, associate professor and chairman of the Department of History and Social Sciences, has been commissioned by Yale University Press to write a new history of the battle of Waterloo. The June 18, 1815, battle in modern Belgium among the French, British and Germans definitively ended the reign of French Emperor Napoleon I. Tentatively titled Napoleon and the War of 1815, the book will be published around 2011 in time for the festivities that will mark the 200th anniversary of the great struggle.
• The Association of Future Lawyers (AFL) at LSUS hosted a three-part Law Day 2006 program in the Technology Center for students and the community regarding various aspects of law and the process of becoming a lawyer. Dr. Bernadette Palombo, professor of criminal justice, and Amy Wren, associate professor of business law, are co-advisors to the AFL. Addressing the Law Day 2006 theme, ”Liberty Under Law: Separate Branches, Balanced Powers,” both professors spoke during the theme presentations portion of the event. Wren discussed her recent research on “Current issues in Employment Discrimination.” Palombo presented her research, “Surviving Criminal Injustice: A Case Study of a Wrongful Conviction in Shreveport, La.”

• Dr. Kyle Pierce, associate professor of kinesiology and health science and director of the LSUS USA Weightlifting Development Center, is listed as a “top international speaker” on the program for the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association’s annual conference at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. The conference speaker announcement says Pierce’s “research specializes in weightlifting with children and adolescents.”

• Dr. Sanjay Menon, assistant professor of management and holder of the LSUS India Studies Professorship, will present three papers at the tenth biannual conference of the International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values in Tallinn, Estonia. The papers are: “Leader Value Orientation: Toward a Typology of Charismatic Leaders,” “Ethical and Moral Empowerment: Empowering Employees to ‘Do the Right Thing’” and “Psychological Empowerment In The South African Military: The Generalizability Of Menon’s Scale.” He co-authored the “Menon’s Scale” paper with Elize Kotze and Barry Vos, both in Military Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• Dr. Lorraine Krajewski’s paper, “When Generations Collide:: What Business Communication Educators Need to Know About Traditionalists, Boomers, Xers, and Millennials,” has been accepted for presentation at the Association for Business Communication Convention in October. Krajewski is a professor of management.

• Michael Graham, instructor of fine arts, has been awarded a grant, “DeSoto on Canvas,” from the Louisiana Division of Arts, funded through the Shreveport Regional Arts Council to produce five drawings for the DeSoto Historical and Genealogical Society. He will also present the art to high schools in rural DeSoto Parish, as well as the parish courthouse, The Mansfield Female College (a state museum) and the SCA Battlepark at Mansfield.
• Dr. Gary Joiner, assistant professor of history, co-edited No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make with his wife, Marilyn Joiner, and Bossier Parish historian Clifton D. Cardin. The book, part of the “Voices of the Civil War” series from the University of Tennessee Press, chronicles the journal of William Henry King, a soldier in Gray’s 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. King began war service in 1862 in Louisiana and ended it in 1865 in Camden, Ark. During this period he wrote of action in the Trans-Mississippi theater, producing a diary that yields one of the most important accounts from a Confederate enlisted man. No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make is a gritty look into the life of a soldier, with no romantic gloss. While most journals record the mundane day-to-day routine, King’s consistently detailed entries – notable for their literary style, King’s venomous wit, and his colorful descriptions – cover a wide array of matters pertaining to the Confederate experience in the West.

• Dr. Lisa Burke, associate professor of management, has been invited as the only U.S. Visiting Scholar to participate in a symposium, “Intuition in Management Practice,” at the London Business School in the fall semester. The event will engage 25 researchers and management practitioners in an exchange of perspectives and a debate centered upon a number of fundamental questions: What is intuition? How does intuition manifest itself in management practice? How effective is intuition in business decision making? and How can managers’ intuitive capabilities be developed? The outcomes of the IMP symposium will likely be a multi-authored article (or articles) aimed at practitioner journals and the establishment of an IMP network.
• Carole Preston, assistant director of the LSUS Center for Business and Economic Research, has earned certification as a Microsoft Office specialist in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. Preston has also passed the exams certification at the expert level for Excel and Word, the only two applications for which the expert level is awarded and has received the MOS master instructor certificate.


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• The International Lincoln Center for American Studies has awarded three fellowships to Caddo Parish middle school teachers that will send them to the annual Summer Teacher Institute at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. Funded by a grant to the Center from the Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier, the fellowships were awarded to Sharman Burgess, the American History Gateway teacher at Youree Drive Middle School; Kristi McNeal Wolf, Caddo Middle Magnet, and Katherene Loften, Ridgewood Middle School. Wolf and Loften are LSUS alumnae – Wolf received an M.Ed. and Loften received her undergraduate degree.