ALUMNI
Former softball pitcher Angel Shamblin was
named the 2007-2008 Conference USA Female Athlete of the Year.
Shamblin plays softball for the Akron (Ohio) Racers of the National
Pro Fastpitch softball league.
Bauer College of Business alumnus Rabih Zeidan (’08)
was recognized by the American Accounting Association with an
Outstanding Dissertation Award from the association’s government
and nonprofit section. Zeidan received the award for his dissertation “Charity
Care Measurement, Political Cost Constraints and Discretionary
Spending by Hospitals.”
FACULTY/STAFF
Alex Boulatov, assistant professor of finance, and Thomas George,
professor of finance and director of the Bauer College of Business
AIM Center for Investment Management, presented their paper “Securities
Trading when Liquidity Providers are Informed” at the annual
meetings of the American Finance Association.
An article by Johnny Rex Buckles titled “Does the Constitutional
Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of
Tax Exemption to Churches That Engage in Partisan Political Speech?” has
been accepted for publication in the Indiana Law Journal. Buckles
is associate professor of law.
Marcilynn Burke’s latest article, “Green Peace?
Protecting our National Treasures While Providing for Our National
Security,” was published in the William & Mary Law
School Environmental Law and Policy Review. Burke is assistant
professor of law.
Wynne Chin, professor of decision and information sciences,
is one of the top five human computer interaction researchers
and one of the top 10 researchers in technology acceptance, according
to the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and
the Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
Victor B. Flatt’s article ”Gasping for Breath” was
selected as one of the 10 best environmental law review articles
of 2007 by the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law. Flatt
is the A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Law and director
of the UH Law Center for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
Law.
Craig Joyce, Andrews Kurth Professor of Law and co-director
of the UH Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property and
Information, has joined the American Bar Association Committee
on Copyright Legislation.
Praveen Kumar, chair of the department of finance, and Latha
Ramchand, associate dean of programs and administration in the
Bauer College of Business, co-authored “Takeovers, Market
Monitoring and International Corporate Governance” in the
Rand Journal of Economics. Kumar also co-authored a paper “Optimal
Patenting and Licensing of Financial Innovations,” for
publication in Management Science. In addition, Kumar was an
invited speaker at the Laurier Conference on “Recent Advances
in Corporate Finance.”
Assistant professor of finance Nisan Langberg has an article, “Optimal
Financing for Growth Firms, scheduled for publication in the
Journal of Finance Intermediation.
Jordan Paust’s article “In Their Own Words: Affirmations
of the Founders, Framers and Early Judiciary Concerning the Binding
Nature of the Customary Law of Nations,” was published
in the University of California-Davis Journal of International
Law and Policy. Paust is the Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center
Professor.
Men’s basketball head coach Tom Penders was one of six
prominent sports figures named for induction into the Fairfield
County, Conn., Sports Hall of Fame.
Jaana Porra, assistant professor of decision and information
sciences, has been named to the Journal of the Association for
Information Systems editorial board.
Richard Saver’s article “In Tepid Defense of Population
Health: Physicians and Antibiotic Resistance” is scheduled
for publication in the American Journal of Law and Medicine.
Saver is associate professor of law and co-director of the UH
Law Center Health Law and Policy Institute.
Spencer Simons’ article titled “What Interests are
Served When Academic Law Library Directors Are Tenured Law Faculty?
An Analysis and Proposal” was accepted for publication
by the Journal of Legal Education.
Brent Spraggins, assistant director of prebusiness and special
programs at the Bauer College of Business, was appointed president
of Phi Beta Delta, a national honor society.
John Ventura’s latest book, “Kiplinger’s Estate
Planning,” was recently published. Ventura is the director
of the UH Law Center Texas Consumer Complaint Center.
Jacqueline Weaver, A.A. White Professor of Law, spoke on “The
Future of Our Petroleum-Based Economy” at the Tulsa Committee
of Foreign Relations and at the Permian Basin Landman’s
Association.
Arthur B. Weglein, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished
Professor of Physics, is one of eight 2008 recipients of the
Townsend Harris Medal, the highest honor awarded alumni of his
alma mater, City College of New York.
