As a part of SU Summer Enrichment Academies 2024, one week over the Summer, Mon-Fri June 24 – 28th, 9am to noon, we held INFO’s “Business Simulation Academy”. Biz Sim Camp was led by Bill Burke and Laura Anderson, with assistance from Vince Nan and support from Amanda Liang. Attending students were children, and relatives of SU staff, in ages 11 to 16 (grades 6th through 11th). Campers played multiple rounds of the paper game within the first two days of camp and stepped up to plat the SAP Maple Syrup Game the remaining days. On the final day they demonstrated for parents, how they play the Maple Game. It was a fun, competitive game and the campers were most interactive and very excited!
Congratulations to the following students who achieved their Security Plus and Security Pro certifications in Prof. John Murphy’s INFO 460 Cybersecurity class:
Karl Banks, CompTIA Security Plus
Justin Wilson, CompTIA Security Plus
Miguel Vargas, CompTIA Security Plus
Anita Atuahene, CompTIA Security Plus
Isaiah Overton, CompTIA Security Plus
Kymbe Schoofield, Security Pro
On June 12, 2024, Dr. Memo Diriker served as the Senior Business Plan Competition Judge at the 30th Annual Network of International Business Schools (NIBS) Conference in Manchester, England. This is the fifth year in a row that Dr. Diriker has led this competition.
On June 21, 2024, Dr. Memo Diriker attended the Annual Board Meeting of the Delmarva Peninsula Insurance Company (DPIC) in Toronto, Canada, in his capacity as the Board Chair of the TidalHealth System.
Khazeh, K., Arvi, L., Winder, R. C., “Impact of Ukraine war on the cash flow transaction risks of multinational corporations operating in developed markets” Journal of International Finance and Economics. Vol. 24, Issue 2, June 2024; 39-51.
Arvi, L., Khazeh, K., Winder, R. C., (June 2024). “Impact of Ukraine war on the cash flow transaction risks of multinational corporations operating in developed markets.” Expanded Abstract presented at the International Academy of Business and Economics Conference in Virginia Beach, VA. (Published in Conference Proceedings).
Dr. E. Patrick McDermott presented his Best Paper Competition study, “The Repeat Player Effect In Mediation – Much Ado About Nothing?” at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (“LERA”), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (“FMCS”) National Labor-Management Conference, and International Labor and Employment Relations Association (“ILERA”) Triad conference in New York City. At the Triad, Dr. McDermott was also a Chair and discussant in a workshop titled “The Continuing Rise of Online Dispute Resolution. Will AI Become a Primary Tool in Workplace Dispute Resolution”. He was a discussant on another panel titled “Artificial Intelligence and Labor Arbitration. What Arbitrators and Parties Need to Know About the Future is Upon Us”.
Dr. McDermott’s journal article titled “Fitting The Forum To Fit The Fuss – The Rise Of Online Video Mediation For Workplace Dispute Resolution” was accepted recently for publication in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.
Dr. McDermott was recently announced as the winner of The Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law and the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) annual writing competition for the best article relating to labor and employment dispute resolution. His article, “The Repeat Play Effect: Much Ado About Nothing” was selected by a committee comprised of NAA and Missouri Law faculty members. The competition includes a prize of $3,000 prize for the best published article by an author in academia or professional practice.
Dr. McDermott was awarded a $5,000 research grant from the National Academy of Arbitrators Research Fund for his study titled “An Empirical Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Selection and Future Use of Labor Arbitrators”. This past summer, Dr. McDermott engaged a PSB student interested in Human Resources Management and further her exposure in this field, using the research funds to compensate her as a research assistant.
Dr. McDermott began his Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs on July 1, 2024. This is a prominent position at the Academy where USAFA selects a few academics and buys out their services for the entire academic year including home university salary, benefits, and relocation costs. He is teaching “Law for Air Force Officers” and also “Negotiation” this semester and will teach three “Negotiation” courses in the spring. He is also working on the continuing inprovement of the negotiation curriculum at USAFA. He reports that this teaching honor, at 7,000 feet, has been an exhilarating experience that is both challenging and rewarding in ways he has never experienced.
In August and September 2024, Dr. David P. Weber, jointly with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jake Bernstein, published two investigative journalism pieces about how gift cards are used for fraud, primarily elder financial exploitation. The stories were the first detailed attempt to account for an industry that has grown to approximately $550 billion per year, issued and marketed almost completely by closely held firms to avoid the public disclosures that would be required otherwise to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators. The stories, which you can read here and here, were published in many venues, both print and online, by the Associated Press and Gannett (the USA Today network), and thus far, have been read online by more than 28,000 unique readers.
In October 2024, Dr. David P. Weber was named by Thompson Reuters as a 2025 Super Lawyer. He was previously selected as a Super Lawyer for the years 2021 – 2024. The selection is based off of an evaluation of 12 indicators including peer recognition and professional achievement in legal practice. Dr. Weber is one of the only lawyers on the Maryland Eastern Shore to be selected, and the sole lawyer, other than his wife, Julie Goodwin Weber(!), to be selected for the Virginia Eastern Shore.
Dr. Ying Wu’s sole-authored paper “Risk-Averse Corporate Investment Behavior and the Effectiveness of Quantitative Easing” is published in an Elsevier journal, International Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 92 (April 2024), 1270-1286.
Drs. Ying Wu and Hong Yao’s paper (joint with Hong Kim Duong and Eduardo Schiehll) “Environmental and Social Disclosure, Managerial Entrenchment, and Investment Efficiency” is published in an Elsevier journal, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Volume 20 (December 2024).