Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D., GSE
Professor and chair of the Division of Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy, and Gerald Cattaro, associate professor of Educational Leadership and director of the Center for Non-Public Education, will be panel members at an April 2006 presidential session of the American Education Research Association’s panel discussion, “Catholic Schools in the Public Interest: Past, Present, and Future.” The panel will discuss what they describe as the massive voluntary effort on the part of Catholic Americans—lay, clerical, and religious—that educated millions of young people in the United States not only for citizenship in the church, but also in the nation.

Albert N. Greco, Ed.D., BUS,
Professor of marketing/communications and media management, presented the following papers: “The Market for Books in the U.S.: 1999-2004” at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., on July 28; “The Supply and Demand for Scholarly Books in the U.S.: 1999-2004” at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada on July 15; “The Market for Trade, Professional, and Educational Textbooks in the U.S.: 1999-2009” at McGraw-Hill, New York City, on June 2; and “Making Market Research Pay” at the Book Expo America conference, New York City on June 2.

Carl S. Hoegler, Ph.D., A&S,
Professor of biology at Marymount College, presented a paper titled, “Does a two phased approach to inquiry-based collaboration in the animal physiology lab contribute to learning?” at the annual Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biologists (FASEB) meeting for the American Physiological Society in San Diego from March 31 to April 5. The paper, which is a major part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation, examines a two-phased approach used in the learning process to train students for independent research in physiology.

James R. Lothian, Ph.D., BUS,
Distinguished Professor of Finance, director of the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance and editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance (JIMF), has been named an honorary fellow of the Financial Forecasting Section of the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering. He delivered the keynote addresses, “Economic Institutions, Capital Flows and Growth,” at the INFINITI conference on Real and Financial Aspects of Financial Integration at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and “Institutions, Capital Flows and Financial Integration,” at the Emerging Markets Finance Conference at the Cass Business School of City University in London. In addition, he presented his paper, “The Behavior of Money and Other Economic Variables: Two Natural Experiments,” at the Allied Social Sciences Meeting in Philadelphia and at the Centre for Financial Markets of the Smurfit School of Business, University College, Dublin, Ireland. Lothian also delivered lectures titled, “Philosophical Roots of Economic Science” at Thomas More College and “Institutional Influences on Investments in Developing Countries” at the FS Focus Conference on Emerging Markets at Maastricht University the Netherlands. He was co-organizer of a conference on foreign exchange in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Philip Napoli, Ph.D., BUS
Associate professor of communications and media management and director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center, presented three papers this summer at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), held in New York in May. One of his papers, “Audience Measurement and Media Policy: Audience Economics, the Diversity Principle, and the Local PeopleMeter,” received the Top Paper Award from ICA’s Communication Law and Policy Division. He also presented a paper, “Bridging Communications Research and Media Ownership Regulation,” at the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Center for Film, Television and New Media’s conference on media ownership: “Research and Regulation,” in May. The paper will be published in an edited book derived from the conference. Also, Napoli obtained a $15,000 grant from the Ford Foundation in May to support the McGannon Center’s efforts at linking media policy researchers with media policy advocates.