Faculty & Staff Spotlight

Maggie Jones Patterson, professor of journalism in the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, received the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 8-11. Her award-winning paper, In the Shadow of Giants: The Ethics of Crime Reporting Rituals in Ireland and Canada, co-authored with Romayne Smith Fullerton of Western University in Ontario, also came in second for Media Ethics Division’s top faculty paper.

Dr. Charles Wood, assistant professor in management information systems, presented  Leaving the Tier: An Examination of Asymmetry in Pricing Patterns in Online High Tech Shops at the Aug. 13-15 International Conference on Electronic Commerce in Turku, Finland, where he discussed pricing strategy in online high-tech shops.