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Business and Economics/Technology
E. Giangrande: Associate Professor of Computer Science
Computer technology
Joe Graham: Professor of Accounting, Dean of the School of Business
Business ethics and other hot topics in the business world
Peter Frank: Associate Professor of Economics
Economic issues, outscoring, entrepreneurship, nonprofit organizations
Kristin Stowe: Associate Professor of Economics & Finance
Proposed changes to Social Security
Successful Writing Skill Acquisition within the Business Curriculum
Unnatural Experiments: The Case of Television Game Shows
A Quick Argument for Active Learning: The Effectiveness of One-Minute Papers
Academic Dishonesty Among Business Students: Determining Student Definitions of, and Participation in, Cheating Activities
Dennis Harlow, Jr.: Associate Professor of Management
Strategies for export, small business and growth; business planning for small and medium businesses; negotiation techniques; cross cultural business; entrepreneurship
Communications/Media
Keith Cannon: Associate Professor of Journalism
Sports and media, media ethics, media’s role in society
Larry Coleman: Assistant Professor of Communication
Wingate University performance series
Crime Issues
Ebonie Cunningham Stringer: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology
Women and crime, mothers in prison, families in prison
Medicine/Health
Robert Supernaw: Vice President for Graduate and Professional Programs and Professor of Pharmacy
Pain management, headache, malpractice
Christian Dolder: Assistant Dean of Faculty Development
Psychiatry and geriatrics including medication adherence and Alzheimer’s disease
Samir Kouzi: Professor of Pharmacy
Drug metabolism, Antimicrobial therapy, and evidence based phytomedicine
Heather McDivitt: Assistant Professor of Religion
Medical ethics; child and adolescent psychology
Donald Nuzum: Associate Professor of Pharmacy
Cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary
Lisa Smith: Director of Advanced Practice Experience and Associate Professor of Pharmacy
Brown bags programs, Alzheimer’s disease, geriatric depression, pain in the cognitively impaired, osteoporosis, hormone replacement therapy
Michael Judd: Dean, Associate Professor of Sport Sciences
Physical activity, leisure and aging; youth sports – providing the parental support, sports and recreational management, developing sports and recreational facilities in the community
Places
Nancy Randall: Professor of Sociology and Human Services
Mexico
Brian Odom: Associate Professor of Biology
Costa Rica
Heather McDivitt: Assistant Professor of Religion
Scotland
Jennifer Armentrout: Director of International Studies
Japan, international travel
Politics
Joseph M. Ellis: Assistant Professor of Political Science
Eastern European politics and economics with an emphasis in tax policy
American politics, international relations and political theory
Terrorism
Religion Issues
Dane Jordan: Minister to Students
Importance of Christian higher education, Generational issues and the church
Dr. James Hastings: Associate Professor of Asian and World History
Religion of India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and/or Sikhism
Heather McDivitt: Assistant Professor of Religion
Christianity in Europe during World War II
Dr. Mark Roncace: Associate Professor of Religion
Teaching the Bible-guide for classroom instruction
Teaching the Bible using popular culture and the arts
Biblical passages from people around the world
History/Higher Education
Abannik Hino: Associate Professor of History
African and Islamic history
Amee Odom: Director of the Library
North Carolina is My Home - A Librarian's Literary Sampler
Dr. Robert Billinger: Ruth D. Horton Professor of History
Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State
Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida, 1942-1946
Metternich and the German Question: States' Rights and Federal Duties
Cynthia Compton: Assistant Professor of Education
What Do Teachers Want?
Ethnicity and Culture
Dr. Aaron Culley: Associate Professor of Sociology & Human Services
- Deviant behavior: basic theories of deviance, which includes crime, but also non-conformity (including artists, musicians, all kinds of social movements and activists, fanatics of all kinds, and essentially any people who intentionally live eccentric or unconventional lifestyles).
- Social movements: Civil Rights movement, going back to the Abolitionist movement against slavery up through the modern Civil Rights era. Historical and contemporary aspects of immigration, Affirmative Action.
- Evangelicals and what distinguishes them from other Christians in terms of theology, biblical interpretation and various practices.
- Mental illness from a sociological perspective looking at social, family, or relational aspects of mental illness as opposed to brain chemistry or genetic causes.
- The role religion plays in society (U.S. and other nations). how different religious groups view society and what they think ought to be the relationship between the church and society, which relates to issues such as how they view same-sex marriage, traditional gender roles, how they view culture (films, TV, music), or how they approach education (such as the trend of many evangelicals to home school their children or send them to private religious schools).
- Race and society: History of race relations in the U.S. How "race" is defined in different societies and at different times. Various kinds of discrimination, racist groups and hate crimes. Going back to social movements,historical and contemporary aspects of immigration (including illegal immigration), racial and economic inequalities in education, Affirmative Action.
Nancy Randall: Professor of Sociology & Human Services
Ethnicity and social distance; social media, social networking
Social Distance in an Ethnically Fluid Community