Dr. Green’s Supercourse “Lecture of the Week”

Dr. Walter Green, chair of the Emergency Services Management program, has been preparing lectures for Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Public Health hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. Supercourse includes roughly 3,500 lectures by 1,300 academics, clinicians and researchers from around the world, including Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University. Green’s lecture on identifying hazards, finding hazards and analyzing hazards, titled “Hazards, Risks, Threat, etc. An Examination of Some Key Terms…,” was selected as the lecture of the week.

Access Dr. Green’s lecture online at www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec32341, and review the Supercourse content at www.pitt.edu/~super1.

Dr. Strait to Present Paper in Athens, Greece

Dr. Patricia Strait, chair of the Human Resource Management and Leadership Studies programs, has been selected to present a research paper at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of Athens, Greece, in July 2009. Strait’s paper is titled “An Exploration of Five Theories to Explain and Manage the Unethical Behavior of Public Employees.”

Visit the 4th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Web site at i09.cgpublisher.com for more information, and review the paper abstract at i09.cgpublisher.com/proposals/72.

Prof. Taylor Publishes Article on 2nd Amendment

Professor Porcher Taylor, chair of the Paralegal Studies program, co-authored an article with University Police Captain Beth Simonds titled “Lock & Load? The 2nd Amendment Arrives on Campus” in the September/October issue of Campus Safety magazine. The article addresses the recent Supreme Court decision in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller that protects the rights of District citizens to own firearms and exercise self-defense. Taylor and Simonds discuss the possible ramifications this decision may have on the practice of banning firearms from college campuses.

• Read the full text of the Campus Safety magazine article online at campussafetymagazine.com.
• Read and listen to an oral transcript of the argument online from the Oyez Project at oyez.org.
• Review the Supreme Court decision and dissenting opinions online from the Cornell University Law School Supreme Court Collection at law.cornell.edu.

Dean Narduzzi Featured in Journal Article

Dr. James L. Narduzzi, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies, and Mary Bitterman, President of The Bernard Osher Foundation, are interviewed in an article titled “‘The Bravest of the Brave’: A Conversation with Mary Bitterman and James Narduzzi” in the Fall 2008 edition of Continuing Higher Education Review. The article highlights support offered to the “bravest of the brave,” those older students who return to the classroom to earn a bachelor’s degree, by The Bernard Osher Foundation and the School of Continuing Studies.

The fall edition of Continuing Higher Education Review is made available in PDF format on the University Continuing Education Association’s Web site, ucea.org. (Note: As of this notice, the Fall 2008 edition of CHER is not yet available. It should be made available within three weeks. -Editor)