Faculty and Staff Scholars

Kurt Smith, Ph.D., Ph.D., presented a paper "Was Hobbes an Idealist?" at the Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association (EPPA) meetings in late April at Misericordia University. The EPPA is an organized melting pot of regional philosophers who convene twice a year to share and discuss the latest topics, trends and research, including their own, within the philosophy discipline.

Lam D. Nguyen, Ph.D., associate professor of management, presented his research, "Leadership and Stress Orientations: A Comparative Analysis of German and Vietnamese Adults”, at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Business Disciplines in Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., on Nov. 10. The Academy of Business Disciplines (ABD) is a non-profit interdisciplinary organization that has as its purpose the expansion of knowledge relative to furthering the understanding of business and all its related functions.

James H. Dalton, Ph.D., professor of psychology, is author of the chapter "Community Psychology" in Volume 1 of the new, second edition of the "Handbook of Psychology," a major resource for the entire field of psychology and for related fields. The Handbook is a ten-volume set covering the science and practice of psychology, edited by Irvin Weiner of the University of South Florida, and published by John Wiley & Sons.

Noreen Chikotas, D.Ed., and Michelle Ficca, Ph.D., both associate professors of nursing, participated in the recent Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) Faculty Development Workshop in Orlando, Fla. The workshop aims to develop the capacity of graduate nursing faculty to teach other faculty to incorporate quality and safety competencies and content into their programs.