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December 2014
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This past year has been eventful with the full integration of a seventh area of concentration to the PhD program in Business Administration (PhD-BA). The prior PhD program in Human Resources and Industrial Relations (HRIR- now called Work and Organizations - WOrg) is now part of our one big happy PhD-BA family. Overall the move was done with the least amount of discomfort to all, and we in the PhD Office are ready to address the challenges related to managing this bigger and better program!
On a bittersweet note, we have had a staff change in the PhD Office. Liz Reel, who took a job in our office five years ago, recently moved to Arizona. We will miss her, and wish her all the best in the next leg of her life journey. But, we also are pleased to welcome Melissa Grass to our office. Melissa just began her role as the student support services specialist as of December 1. We again thank the Marketing Department for training and providing staff for us. (And, we apologize to them for poaching their talent twice in a row). We look forward to the Melissa era, as she has already hit the ground running with admissions on the horizon.
But enough about the program -- we want to highlight for you some of the good things that have happened with our current PhD students, alumni, and faculty, so read on for more exciting news!
This year we are highlighting two of our recent award-winning alumni, from the IDSc and OMS/SCO programs respectively.
Soon Ang, PhD in IDS (1993)
– Goh Tjoei Kok Distinguished Chair and Professor in International Management & IT at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang, Technological University; Head of the Division of Strategy, Management and Organization; Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CLCI); Director of the Human Resource Round Table - Singapore; and Academic Advisor to Singapore's Ministry of Defense SAFTI Leadership Development Center.
Soon Ang was awarded the 2014 Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., Applied Research Award by the Center for Creative Leadership. It is awarded to recognize outstanding, career-long contributions to applied research and carries a $1,500 cash prize and an invitation to the Center's global headquarters to present a colloquium and attend a dinner in the recipient's honor.
It is difficult to believe that Professor Ang graduated from our program over twenty years ago! It seems just like yesterday that she was roaming through the Management & Economics Building and the Humphrey Center. Soon was a special student even then with her quiet ability to easily relate to and mingle with faculty, staff and other students. So, it comes as no surprise that she has gone so far and accomplished so much in academia. She came to our program in 1988 with a bachelor's in accounting from the National University of Singapore and an M.Com. in information systems from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Since graduating in 1993, with placement at Nanyang Technical University, she has become a world authority in global leadership, outsourcing, and cultural intelligence. She has consulted widely and won numerous Best Paper awards at the Academy of Management, SIOP, HICSS, and ACM, has published widely, and served in editorial capacities. She was awarded the University of Minnesota's Distinguished Leadership Award for International Alumni as well as the Nanyang Research Award, the highest research award given by Nanyang Tech. Having already reached such a high pinnacle of academic achievement, we eagerly look forward to seeing what more Professor Ang can accomplish!
Aravind Chandrasekaran, PhD in OMS/SCO (2009)
– Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
Aravind Chandrasekaran was the recipient of the 2013 Carol J. Latta Award for Outstanding Early Career Scholar, awarded by the Decision Sciences Institute. Also in 2013 he received the INFORMS – ISA Best Paper Award for "Process Management Impact on Clinical and Experiential Quality: Managing Tensions between Safe and Patient-Centered Healthcare," co-authored with C. Senot and K. Boyer and published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 14(4), 548-566.
Aravind is still in the early stages of what promises to be a long and productive academic career. Five year after graduating with his PhD, he has already received best paper and teaching excellence awards. Check out Aravind's vita to see how productive he has been in his short time at The Ohio State University. Aravind arrived at Minnesota with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University in India and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He entered our doctoral program in fall of 2004, and by 2008 he had his first jointly-authored publication. While in the program he won numerous awards and fellowships including the Juran Fellowship, the Carlson School Dissertation Fellowship, and in 2010 he received the Elwood S. Buffa Best Dissertation Award from DSI for his dissertation advised by Professors Kevin Linderman and Roger Schroeder. Aravind has not slowed down since then. Go to his Ohio State site at http://fisher.osu.edu/departments/management-sciences/faculty/aravind-ch... for a more detailed description of all his accomplishments in his five-year career at OSU. And stay tuned for more from this outstanding scholar!
In 2014-15 we have 18 students on the market. We are looking forward to excellent placements since the job market seems fairly strong this year. While many of the students are just entering the market or setting up campus interviews, both of our Marketing candidates, Yajin Wang and Xiaolin Li, have completed interviews and already accepted placements. So, we are off to a strong start!
|On The Market
|Wen Chen (advisor: Pervin Shroff)
Sumi Jung (advisor: Pervin Shroff)
|Amanda Heitz (advisors: John Boyd & Tracy Wang)
Hongda Zhong (advisor: Philip Bond)
|Zhuojun Gu (advisors: Ravi Bapna & Alok Gupta)
Miguel Velasco (advisor: Paul Johnson)
|Xiaolin Li (advisor: George John) accepted a position at the University of Texas at Dallas
Yajin Wang (advisor: Deborah R. John) accepted a position at the University of Maryland at College Park
|George Ball (advisor: Rachna Shah)
Suvrat Dhanorkar (advisor: Kevin Linderman)
Ujjal Mukherjee (advisor: K.K. Sinha)
|Florence Honore (advisors: Harry Sapienza & Martin Ganco)
Stephen Jones (advisor: Andrew Van de Ven)
Ribuga Kang (advisor: Aks Zaheer)
|Patricia Dahm (advisor: Theresa Glomb)
Si Ahn Mehng (advisor: Michelle Duffy)
Qianyun Xie (advisor: John Budd)
Tao Yang (advisor: Theresa Glomb)
With fewer than ten students on the job market last year, we expected good placements overall. Most of the students had many excellent job interviews, with several having multiple offers. We are glad to see them all happily settled in the schools of their choice.
|Placement of PhD Students on the Job Market during 2013-2014
Yongun Choi
Michael Cummings
Xin Dai
KiYoung Lee
Ryan Rahinel
Huijun Wang
Loxley Wang
Our students continue to impress us with their accomplishments. Below we give a sampling of our PhD students' honors, awards, presentations and publications for the past year.
Selected Student Honors and Awards
Sumi Jung - 2014-15 Juran Fellowship
Keeseon Nam - 2014 Carlson School PhD Student Excellence in Teaching Award
John Pokorny – (1) 2014 Carlson School PhD Student Excellence in Teaching Award; (2) 2014-15 John William Herrick Teaching Award in Finance
Junyan Shen – (1) 2014 Carlson School PhD Student Excellence in Teaching Award ; (2) 2014-15 John William Herrick Teaching Award in Finance
Jennifer Stoner – 2014 Carlson School PhD Student Excellence in Teaching Award
Yajin Wang – 2014-15 Carlson School Dissertation Fellowship winner (advisers: Deborah Roedder John and Vladas Griskevicius)
George Ball – 2014-15 Roger and Marlene Schroeder Research Grant Award
Suvrat Dhanorkar – (1) 2014-15 Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship winner (adviser: Kevin Linderman); (2) 2014 Carlson School PhD Student Excellence in Teaching Award; and (3) 2014 Kristy Cua Doctoral Student Excellence Award
Yoonhee Choi – 2014-15 Carlson School Dissertation Fellowship winner (adviser: Mary Benner)
Cameron Miller - 2014 Carlson School Outstanding Teaching Award
Karyn Dossinger - 2014 Carlson School Outstanding Teaching Award
John-Gabriel Licht – 2014-15 Carlson School Dissertation Fellowship winner (adviser: Michelle Duffy and Sophie Leroy)
Si Ahn Mehng – 2014-15 Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship winner (adviser: Michelle Duffy)
Lingtao Yu – 2014 Carlson School Outstanding Teaching Award
Selected Student Presentations and Publications
Information & Decision Sciences:
Zhuojun Gu – presented at WCBI (Winter Conference on Business Intelligence) 2014, "Viral Incentive Scheme Design Based on Predicting Altruistic Preference."
JaeHwuen Jung – presented at WISE 2013, "Love Unshackled: The Casual Effect of Mobile App Adoption in Online Dating," December 20, 2013, with Akhmed Umyarov, Ravi Bapna and Jui Ramaprasad.
Benjamin Mitchell – presented at the BYU Information Systems Research Symposium; Provo, UT; October 11-12, 2013, "Document Repository Use Over Time: The Influence of Document Content Type on Knowledge Management System Success in High-Procedural Context Knowledge Work."
Probal Mojumder – with A. Mehra and A. Seidmann, "Product Life Cycle Management of Packaged Software," 2014, Production and Operations Management, 23(3), pp. 366-378.
Shweta Singh –
- presented at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2013, "Specialization, Integration, and Multi-sourcing: A Study of Large IT Outsourcing Projects."
- presented at Statistical Challenges in e-Commerce Research (SCER), 2012, "Analyzing IT Multi-sourcing: The Coordination Challenge."
Miguel Velasco – presented at AMCIS 2013, "Data Modeling in the Cloud," with N. Jukic, M.K. Ruiz, S.N. Lane, S.E. Nestorov, S.V. Vrbsky and B. Jukic.
Michael Covey – presented at Society for Consumer Psychology, March 2014, "Don't Eat Me!: Loneliness, Anthropomorphism, and Consumption."
Xiaolin Li –
- presented at the Marketing Science Conference, June 2013, "Memory Imperfections and Messaging Strategy," with R. Rao and O. Narasimhan.
- presented at Marketing Science Conference, June 2013, "Paying for Intermediate Output: A Field Intervention," with R. Banerjee, O. Narasimhan and G. John.
Chiraag Mittal –
- presented (poster) at the 2014 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, March 2014 and the Association for Consumer Research, October 2013, "Planning in an Uncertain World," with V. Griskevicius.
- presented at the Society for Consumer Psychology, March 2014 and Society of Personality and Social Psychology, February 2014 and at the Association for Consumer Research, October 2013, "Behaviors under Uncertainty: The Critical Role of Sense of Control," March, 2014 with V. Griskevicius.
- presented at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, July 2013 "Psychological Drivers of Fast and Slow Life History Strategies: The Critical Role of Sense of Control," with V. Griskevicius.
Nick Olson –
- presented at the 2013 Association for Consumer Research Conference, "Maximizing Outcomes when Choices Reflect the Self," with Kathleen Vohs.
- presented at the Society for Consumer Psychology, "When More Information is Bad Information: Maximizer Involvement and Decision Outcomes," with R. Ahluwalia.
- Jennifer Stoner – presented at the Haring Symposium, 2014, "The Asymmetric Effect of Portfolio and Image-Based Abstractness for Building and Protecting Brand Equity," with C. Torelli & A. B. Monga.
- with C. Torelli, L. Leslie & R. Puente, "Cultural Determinants of Status: Implications for Workplace Evaluations and Behaviors," 2014, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 123(1), 34-48.
- with C. Torelli, "Managing Cultural Equity: A Theoretical Framework for Building Iconic Brands in Globalized Markets," (forthcoming), Review of Marketing Research.
- with B. Loken, "Consumer Psychology," (forthcoming), Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology.
Yajin Wang –
- presented at the Society for Consumer Psychology Conference, March 2014, "Rituals Enhance Consumption," with K. Vohs, F. Gino and M. Norton.
- presented at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, February 2014, "Rituals Enhance Consumption," with K. Vohs, F. Gino and M. Norton.
- presented at the Association for Consumer Research Conference, October 2013, "Conspicuous Consumption, Relationships, and Rivals: Women's Luxury Products as Signals to Other Women," with V. Griskevicius.
- presented at the Association for Consumer Research Conference, October 2013, (Special Session Chair), "Faking it with Luxury Counterfeit Products: How Social Feedback Can Make Us More or Less Dishonest," with D.R. John.
- presented at the Human Behavior & Evolution Society, July 2013, "Fendi Handbags Fend Off Romantic Rivals: Women's Conspicuous Consumption as a Signaling System," with V. Griskevicius.
- with K.D. Vohs, F. Gino and M.I. Norton, "Rituals Enhance Consumption," 2013, Psychological Science, 24(9), 1714-1721.
- with V. Griskevicius "Conspicuous Consumption, Relationships, and Rivals: Women's Luxury Products as Signals to Other Women," 2014, Journal of Consumer Research, 40(5), 834-854.
Supply Chain & Operations:
George Ball –
- presented at the Food and Drug Administration, November 2013 and April 2014, "Medical Device Product Recall Research Overview," with R. Shah.
- presented at the Wharton Empirical Conference, October 2013, "Plant Operations and Product Recalls in Automotive Industry: An Empirical Investigation," with R. Shah and S. Netessine
- presented at the Behavioral Operations Conference, June 2013, "Behavioral Biases and the Product Recall Decision," with R. Shah and K. Donohue
- presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, November 2013, "Product Recall Duration and Future Medical Device Recalls," with R. Shah.
- presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2013, "Plant Operations and Product Recalls in the Automotive Industry: An Empirical Investigation," with R. Shah and S. Netessine.
Suvrat Dhanorkar –
- presented "Repurposing Materials and Waste through Online Exchanges," at POMS, May 2014 (Invited Session) and at INFORMS 2013 (General Track).
- presented "Roles of Punishment and Support in the Context of Environmental Improvements," at AOM Annual Conference, August 2014, at POMS 2013and at INFORMS 2013.
- presented at INFORMS 2013, "Deciding When to Implement Compatible Management Standards."
Rick Hardcopf –
- presented at POMS, May 2014, "Experiencing Queuing Delay: To Wait or Not to Wait…"
- presented at POMS, May 2014, "Save the Environment or Strive for Legitimacy – Motives for Adopting Environmental Practices in Manufacturing."
- presented at POMS, May 2014, "Lean and Performance: The Impact of Organizational Culture."
Sehwon Kang – with J. Oh, "Customer Perceptions of Health Examination Service Quality: An Empirical Investigation in South Korea," (forthcoming), International Journal of Social Science and Humanity.
Pettis Kent – presented at POMS, May 2014, "Opening the Black Box of Replication Strategy: The Role of Enabling Bureaucracy."
Xiaojin Liu –
- presented at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, October 2013, "Work Design and Work Safety in Manufacturing Industry."
- presented at the Decision Sciences Institute, November 2013, "Knowledge Creation and the Work Design: The Implication of the Workforce Demographics," with S. Meyer Goldstein.
- with A.C. Yeung, C.K.Y. Lo, and T.C.E. Cheng, "The Moderating Effect of Knowledge Characteristics on the Financial Value of Innovative Technology Products," 2014, Journal of Operations Management, 32(3), 79-87.
Ujjal Mukherjee –
- presented at the Production & Operations Management Society Annual Meeting, May 2014; at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2013; Wharton Innovation Conference, Spring 2014; at the International Symposium of Information Systems, India, January 2014; at the American Society of Quality (ASQ), Annual Meeting 2014; at the Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative Annual Conference, May 2014; at the Medtronic Inc, USA, Annual Product Development and Analytics Symposium, September 2014; and at the Institute of Engineers in Medicine (IEM), Fall 2014; "Predicting Failures of High Tech Innovations-in-use: Application of Predictive Analytics to Big Data on Market Failures of Medical Devices."
- presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2013; at the Production & Operations Management Society Annual Meeting, May 2014; at the Minnesota Healthcare Conference, Fall 2013; at the Life Sciences Alley Annual Conference, Minnesota, Fall 2013; at the Design of Medical Devices Annual Conference, Fall 2013; at the Institute of Engineers' in Medicine, Fall 2013; and at the Special Interest group on Healthcare Operations. MSOM, Seattle, April 2014; "Critical and Complex Technological Capability Development for Health Care Delivery: Econometrics Analysis of the Effect of Technology Innovation on Reducing Process and Outcome Variation."
- presented at the North Central Bio-Medical Association Annual Conference, September 2014, "Strategic Asset Management in Healthcare: Issues Related to Management, Usage and Adoption," with Kingshuk K. Sinha.
Jason Nguyen – presented at INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2013, "Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiatives: Energy Efficiency and Emissions Reductions."
Christopher Swanton –
- presented at POMS, May 2014, "Single-Item Perceptual Measures for POM Phenomena are a Menace for Survey Research. Or Not?" with J. Rungtusanatham and M. Polyviou.
- presented at POMS, May 2014, "Mindfulness and the Prevention of Retail Theft: A Test High Reliability Organizations," with J. Rungtusanatham, K. Linderman, and H.C. Su.
- presented at POMS, May 2014, "Retail Shrink and Cargo Theft: Tests of Routine Activity Theory," with J. Rungtusanatham and K. Linderman.
- presented at INFORMS, October 2013, "Preventing Retail Theft: A Test Routine Activity Theory," with J. Rungtusanatham and K. Linderman.
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship:
Sofia Bapna – presented at SCECR - Annual Symposium on Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research, June 2013 and at Strategic Management Society, March 2014, "Entrepreneurship, Legitimacy and Online Communities." with M. Benner.
Yoonhee Choi –
- presented at the Annual Conference of Industry Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, May 2014, "Different Organizational Responses to Institutional Complexity: A Study of U.S. Art Museums."
- presented at Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2013, "Shifting Focus between Exploration and Exploitation Subsequent to CEO Turnover," with M. Benner.
Michael Cummings –
- presented at Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2014, " Lawyers, Bar Associations, and Other Influencers in the Negotiated Landscape of Social-Business Hybridization." with Rawhouser, H.
- presented at International Association for Business and Society Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 2013, "The Influence of Diaspora Engagement Policies on the Investment Impact of Migrant Remittances." with Vaaler, P. & Gamlen, A.
- presented at International Association for Business and Society Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 2013, "The Diffusion of New Corporate Forms for a Better World." with Rawhouser, H.
- presented at the Minnesota Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, "The influence of diaspora engagement policies on the investment impact of migrant remittances." Chad Howland – presented at SMS, September 30, 2013, "CEO Background Characteristics as Determinants of Firm Performance."
Florence Honore –
- presented at the DRUID Conference, Copenhagen, June 2014; at the SMS Conference, Copenhagen, June 2014; and at the ACAC Doctoral Workshop, Atlanta, May 2014; "The Performance Effects of Disrupting Founding Teams' Prior Shared Experience through Job Hopper."
- presented at the Great Lakes Entrepreneurship Network Conference, Columbus, June 2013, "Geek Minds Think Alike: Team Composition and Performance in Technological Spin-Outs."
Stephen Jones –
- presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, Florida, August 2013, "Why Do Employees Respond Differently to the Same Organizational Changes?" with Andy Van de Ven.
- presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, Florida, August 2013, "Diagnosing the locus of trust: Multilevel and temporal influences on perceived trustworthiness," with Pri Shah.
- presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup), Atlanta, Georgia, July 2013, "Trust in teams: The influence of team processes on perceptions of ability, benevolence and integrity," with Pri Shah.
- with S. E. Fawcett, C. Wallin, A. M. Fawcett, and B. Brewer. "Can Small Firms Gain Relational Advantage? Exploring Strategic Choice and Trustworthiness Signals in Supply Chain Relationships," (forthcoming), International Journal of Production Research.
- with E.S. Engler and A. H. Van de Ven. "Organizing Healthcare for Changing Markets: The Case of Ascension Health," 2013, Journal of Organization Design, 2(3), 3-15.
Ribuga Kang – presented at the Strategic Management Society, 9/27/13- 10/1/13, "Determinants of Alliance Partner Choice: Examining Alliance Partner Network Distance from Perspective of Agency Theory."
Keyman (Dennie) Kim –
- presented at AOM Entrepreneurship Division Exemplars Conference, Keystone, CO, March 7, 2014, "Pitching altered visions of success: How entrepreneurs shift opportunities based on investor feedback," with L. Balachandra, H. Sapienza, and D. Kim.
- presented at Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, London, Ontario, June 6, 2014, "How critical cues affect angels' investment preferences," with L. Balachandra, H. Sapienza, and D. Kim.
- with B. S. Kodali, H. Flanagan, J. M. Ehrenfeld, and R. D. Urman, "Variability of subspecialty-specific anesthesia-controlled times at two academic institutions." 2014, Journal of Medical Systems, 38(2), Article 11, 1-8.
- with B. S. Kodali, R. Bleday, H. Flanagan, R. D. Urman, "Successful strategies for the reduction of operating room turnover times in a tertiary care academic medical center," 2013, Journal of Surgical Research
Work & Organizations:
Patricia Caufield Dahm –
- presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists, Honolulu, HI. (2014), "Work-family conflict, self-regulation, and self-discrepant time allocation at work," with Glomb, TM, Manchester, CF, & Leroy, S.
- presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists, Honolulu, HI, 2014, "Leaning In and Leaning Out: Developing a Work-Life Trade-offs Scale." with Kim, Yeonka S., & Glomb, Theresa M.
- with Leslie, Lisa M., Manchester, Colleen Flaherty, "Ironic Effects of Flexible Work Practices on Parents' Career Success," Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2013.
John-Gabriel Licht –
- presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Lake Buena Vista, FL, August 12, 2013. "Unethical Behavior for Self or Collective Benefit: The Role of Self-Construal." with Leroy, S., & Vohs, K.D.
- presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI, May 15, 2014, "Cognitive Load and Unethical Behavior: Idle Hands — the Devil's Playground?" with Leroy, S.
Qianyun Xie –
- presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association, 65th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, June 2013, "The Effects of Unions on Innovation and Technology: Evidence from China." with W. Chi and X. Qian.
- presented at the American Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Labor and Employment Relations Association Sessions, Philadelphia, PA, January 2014, "Learning through the Lens of your Job: Employee Commitment and Transferability of Human Capital." with C. F. Manchester.
- presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association, 66th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, May 2014, "The Impact of Family Characteristics on Reactions to Compensation Incentives."
- with J. W. Budd, W. Chi, and Y.Wang, "What Do Unions in China Do? Provincial-Level Evidence on Wages, Employment, Productivity, and Economic Output." (forthcoming), Journal of Labor Research.
- Tao Yang - presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, Honolulu, HI. May 2014. "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Affect Balance." In T. Yang & J. E. Bono (Co-Chairs), Novel and Dynamic Approaches to Research on Affect at Work Symposium, with Lee, K., Bono, J. E., Yoon, D. J., Glomb, T. M., & Duffy, M. K.
Lingtao Yu –
- presented (poster) at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2014, "Predictors of Abusive Supervision: An Emotional Regulation Perspective."
- presented at the Symposium at the 2013 Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, Orlando, FL, 2013, "The Psychological Mechanism Explaining the Effects of Envy on its Consequences," with Vogel, R. and Duffy, M. K..
- with Duffy. M. K., "A Social Context Model of Envy in the Workplace." (forthcoming), In Smith. R. and Duffy, M. K. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of envy and work (tentative), Oxford University Press.
- with Zellmer-Bruhn, M., "Cross-Cultural Management." (forthcoming), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3e (in press).
This past year two of our PhD students received Graduate School dissertation fellowships. We highlight them and their accomplishments below.
Si Ahn Mehng (BBA-Business, Yonsei Univ, 2003; BSc-Marketing, Univ. of Northern Colorado, 2002; MSc-OB-Yonsei Univ-Business, 2007).
Si Ahn, a student in our Work and Organizations program, was a 2014-15 Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship winner. She received this award based on her proposal entitled "When is Physical Attractiveness not Beneficial? Perceptions of Warmth and Competence, Emotions, and Job Behaviors," advised by Professors Michelle Duffy and Lisa Leslie (now at NYU). In addition to her interest in and research on the perceptions of physical attractiveness in the workplace, Si Ahn also has an interest in stereotypes, flexible work practices, diversity management, and individual differences and emotional dynamics in groups. In 2012, she and her co-authors were finalists for the 2013 Rosabeth Moss Kanter award for their article "Flexible Work Practices: A Source of Career Premiums or Penalties?" which was published in the Academy of Management Journal. Si Ahn is on the job market this year.
Yajin Wang (BA-Journalism and Sociology, Peking Univ, 2007; MA-Mass Communications, Univ of Minnesota, 2010)
Yajin has been a stellar student in our Marketing program! Her research, advised by Professor Deborah Roedder John, examines luxury brands and conspicuous consumption, and social influence and consumer behavior, along with interpersonal relationships. Her proposal entitled "The Dark Side of Luxury Consumption: Psychological and Social Consequences of Using Luxury Goods" garnered a 2014-15 CSOM dissertation fellowship. The research stream has also received widespread media attention from ABC News, NBC, CBS News, CNN, Harvard Business Review, TIME, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. And of course, there are her publications and numerous presentations at top area journals and conferences. Her work with Associate Professor Vladas Griskevicius, entitled "Conspicuous Consumption, Relationships, and Rivals: Women's Luxury Products as Signals to Other Women," was published in 2014 in the Journal of Consumer Research , while another paper with Kathleen Vohs, Francesca Gino, and MI Norton, was published in 2013 in Psychological Science. In addition, Yajin has several co-authored research projects under revision for major area journals. Finally, she recently completed her job market interviews, and we congratulate her on accepting an offer from the University of Maryland. We know we will hear more about Yajin, and she has our best wishes for a long and productive career!
|# Applied
|# Admitted
|# Accepted
Our application numbers were up by almost 25% from the prior year, consistent with our program's recruiting efforts and strong reputation. The total received was 396 for 17 open slots. The new students who matriculated in fall 2014 had an average UGPA of 3.77, average graduate GPA of 3.72, with a 703 average GMAT (or converted GRE). Forty-seven percent were female and 88% were international, including students from China, India, Iran, Italy and Korea. Our 17 new students entered our program with degrees from such schools as Peking University, the University of Arizona, BITS, University of Palermo, University of Utah, Teheran University, Indian School of Business, Cornell University and the University of Minnesota. We feel we have a very strong cohort of new students for fall 2014 and expect good things from them in the future.
News about some of our top-rated faculty is given below. They are a real strength of all the programs at Carlson School, and continue to be recognized as such by major faculty rankings.
Faculty Promotions:
- Mozaffar Khan, Accounting: Assistant to Associate Professor
- Ivy Zhang, Accounting, Assistant to Associate Professor
- Frederico Belo, Finance: Assistant to Associate Professor
- Joseph Redden, Marketing: Assistant to Associate Professor
New Faculty:
- Michael Iselin, Accounting, PhD, The Ohio State University
- Gaoqing Zhang, Accounting, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
- Juliana Salomao, Finance, PhD, Stanford University
- Colin Ward, Finance, PhD, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Jason Chan, IDSc, PhD, New York University
- De Liu, IDSc, Associate Professor (came from the U of Kentucky), PhD, UT-Austin
- Alison Xu, Marketing, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sunasir Dutta, SME, PhD, Stanford University
- Russell Funk, SME, PhD, University of Michigan
- Elizabeth Campbell, WOrg, PhD, University of Maryland at College Park
- Betty Zhou, WOrg, PhD, University of Florida
Selected Faculty Honors and Awards (a small sampling):
- Finance Professor Gordon Alexander was elected FMA vice President
- Finance Professor Murray Frank was elected Vice President of the Midwest Finance Association
- Finance Associate Professor Jianfeng Yu was appointed to the Piper Jaffray Professorship in Finance
- Marketing Associate Professor Tony Cui was named Editor of Production and Operations Management
- Marketing Associate Professor Vladas Griskevicius was named JMR editor.
- SCO Professor William Li was honored as a new American Statistical Association Fellow
- SCO Professor Kevin Linderman has been named to the editorial board of the Journal of Operations Management
- SME Professor Aks Zaheer has been elected a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. Aks was also selected to serve on the University Strategic Planning Workgroup, a faculty-led workgroup that will develop the vision, mission, values, goals and strategies for the University's next strategic plan.
- WOrg Professor Theresa Glomb was elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association
- WOrg Assistant Professor Aaron Sojourner has been name by Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges to the Cradle to K Cabinet, a major initiative for the city of Minneapolis to create equity with its children.
- WOrg Professor Connie Wanberg has received a $299,424 NSF grant for her project "Skills for Coping with the Stresses of Unemployment and Seeking New Employment Opportunities"


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Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways
Rockaway Community Park Coastal Clean-up
Saturday, January 11, 2014
9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Please note: This event has already taken place. Please use the Search options on the right to find upcoming events.
Volunteer with Natural Areas Volunteers (NAV) at Rockaway Community Park to help remove debris from the shoreline. This work will help to protect the natural habitat of Jamaica Bay. Come dressed in sturdy boots or shoes, long pants, and clothing that can get dirty. Please meet your NAV Tech lead on the corner of Almeda Ave and Beach 58th Street. Space is limited. Registration is required for this event.
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Know Before You Go
There are currently 2 service interruptions affecting access within this park.
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk
Due to construction, Beach 118th - Beach 126th Streets are closed to swimming until July. Beaches are fully open at Beach 86th Street, Beach 97th Street, Beach 106th Street, and Beach 112th - Beach 117th Streets.
Anticipated Completion: Summer 2016
Marine Park
Marine Park's tennis courts will be closed for the season due to construction.
Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways Weather
- Major Habitat Restoration And Trail Development Project Gets Underway This Fall In Marine Park
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A Vision of the Future?
THE ENNEAGRAM: A Christian Perspective
ROCKS OF AGES: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
POSTHUMAN FUTURE: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Book Briefs
MICHELANGELO & THE POPE'S CEILING, by Ross King. Walker &
Company. 373 pp. $28.
Reviewed by JOHN F. FINK, editor emeritus of The Criterion,
newspaper for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
THE END of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th were
a fascinating period of history but, unfortunately, definitely not an edifying
time for the Catholic Church. It was a time of immoral popes, abuses within
the Church and warfare. But it was also a time when history's greatest artists
gave us masterpieces.
Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling has all the ingredients
of a great book—beauty, religion, politics, sex, warfare and intrigue.
Michelangelo Buonarroti and Pope Julius II are King's main characters,
but supporting characters include, among many others, Pope Alexander VI and
his children Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia, Raffaello Santi (Raphael), Leonardo
da Vinci, Donato Bramante, Martin Luther, Savonarola, Erasmus, Henry VIII of
England, Louis XII of France, Niccolo Machiavelli and Lorenzo the Magnificent.
The "ceiling" in the title is the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Julius II's uncle, built the chapel to the exact dimensions
of Solomon's Temple. Pope Julius, a powerful and worldly man who fathered three
children earlier in his lifetime, became pope in 1503 after bribing some of
his electors.
His ambition as pope was to return the papacy to its former glory.
He commissioned Bramante to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo to paint
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and Raphael to fresco the papal apartments.
(He also offered indulgences to people who paid money for the building of St.
Peter's, an action that led to the Protestant Reformation.)
Michelangelo's first contact with Pope Julius came after Michelangelo
sculpted his Pietŕ in Rome, when he was 23, and his statue of David in Florence,
when he was 29. Pope Julius summoned him to Rome where he commissioned Michelangelo
to sculpt a magnificent tomb for him. When the pope changed his mind after the
artist had designed the tomb and bought the marble for it, Michelangelo angrily
left Rome and returned to Florence, vowing never to return.
It took the pope four summonses before Michelangelo consented to
return to Rome, still hoping to work on Julius's sepulchre. But Bramante had
convinced Julius to have Michelangelo paint the 12,000 square feet of the Sistine
Chapel's ceiling.
Michelangelo finally agreed to do the work—four years of it for
him and his assistants. (Later he sculpted the sepulchre, which today is in
St. Peter in Chains Basilica in Rome—although Pope Julius's body is not.)
King goes into great detail on the art and difficulty of fresco—painting
on wet plaster. He also tells how Michelangelo designed the scaffolding so that
religious services could continue in the chapel while work was progressing overhead.
The scaffold allowed Michelangelo (and his assistants) to paint standing up,
not flat on his back as he was shown in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy
that starred Charlton Heston.
Both Michelangelo and Julius had fiery tempers. At least once Julius
thrashed Michelangelo with a stick when he was exasperated with the length of
time Michelangelo was taking on the ceiling. Michelangelo refused to be hurried.
He would not let Julius see his progress. Once, when Julius was trying to see
the ceiling, Michelangelo threw planks down at the pope from the scaffolding.
Pope Julius was known as Il Papa Terribile for his temper
and as "the Warrior Pope" because he led troops into battle, taking his cardinals
with him. His enemies were the Italian cities that he wanted to reclaim for
the Papal States, and King Louis XII of France. His allies were King Henry VIII
of England and King Ferdinand of Spain. This book details the pope's victories
and defeats.
Julius also made the Swiss Guards the official papal escort in 1510,
giving them a distinctive uniform designed by Michelangelo.
The book has almost as much about Raphael as it does about Michelangelo.
Raphael was much friendlier to Julius than Michelangelo was—fortunately, since
he was working about 20 feet from Julius's bedroom.
Ross King has given us an absorbing book about intriguing people
during an interesting era.
You can order MICHELANGELO & THE POPE'S CEILING
from St.
Francis Bookshop.
LIVING CATHOLICISM, by Roderick Strange. Paulist Press. 143 pp.
Reviewed by JULIE S. DONATI, a Catholic school teacher
who lives in Sugar Land, Texas. She is married to Marcello and has three children—ages
11, nine and a newly adopted baby. She is working on her M.A. in theology at
St. Mary's Seminary in Houston.
WHAT CONSTITUTES a Catholic way of life? Is it doctrinal adherence,
fulfilling the Sunday Mass obligation or giving up chocolate for Lent? In Living
Catholicism, Roderick Strange tackles that question and reduces it to one
element—love. He writes, "Loving lies at the heart of living Catholicism."
Father Strange, the rector of Beda College in Rome and a former
chaplain at Oxford University in England, focuses on a "Catholicism come alive."
His earlier book, The Catholic Faith, focused on doctrine.
In a clear yet disarming manner, Strange paints a portrait of what
encompasses a Christian life of faith in today's world. Strange's main theme,
to which he returns repeatedly, is that when a person loves God and neighbor,
everything else will fall into place.
In the first part of the book, he focuses on the personal aspect
of what it means to have faith. He continues by calling on us to be watchful
for God in the ordinary people and events of our lives.
Hand-in-hand with the concept of watchfulness is that of prayer.
Prayer gives us the perception to see Christ in others and to love unconditionally.
Strange believes in the utter simplicity of prayer in placing oneself before
the Lord.
He gives five practical pointers to initiate a prayer life: Follow
our own style, acknowledge the need for silence in prayer, find the time, make
the practice a habit and deal with distractions.
Although written in a style that is straightforward and gentle,
the book caused me to reflect on my prayer life and the need to discipline myself
to a greater extent.
In the second part of the book, Strange moves progressively outward
from the personal to the community to the world at large. After treating Jesus'
life and ministry with broad strokes, Strange continues by exploring what it
means to be Church today, making the distinction between Catholicity as a quality
of life and not quantity of baptized Catholics.
Clearly and concisely, he gives an excellent synopsis of how the
pre-Vatican II Church came to understand itself in legalistic and triumphant
terminology. He subsequently presents an even treatment of how Vatican II sought
to change this in Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church).
Strange touches on some of the more "controversial" Catholic traits—such
as the belief in divine providence, miracles, and the Eucharist and Reconciliation.
He concludes with an invitation to love in action. In this chapter,
Strange challenges us to live out our faith in concrete ways. We must not allow
our love to be limited to individuals close to us but reach out to society.
Roderick Strange enlivens insightful writing with his own personal
experiences and the stories of others, from a British perspective.
I would recommend this book to the college student who has a shaky
understanding of the Catholic faith, to those who might not have come to terms
with the teachings of Vatican II or even to an RCIA participant.
You can order LIVING CATHOLICISM from St. Francis Bookshop.
THE ENNEAGRAM: A Christian Perspective, Richard Rohr and Andreas
Ebert. Crossroad. 293 pp. $17.95.
Reviewed by PAT McCLOSKEY, O.F.M., editor of this publication.
INTEREST in the Enneagram remains strong. First published in
German (1989) and then in English (1990), this book has been revised and reissued
in German (1999) and English (2001).
"We have inserted only the new insights that we ourselves have
come upon and that have become especially important to us. This relates especially
to the history of how the Enneagram came into being," the authors write.
Rohr and Ebert now believe that the medieval Sufis (Muslims) developed
the Enneagram with ideas borrowed from the Christian desert mystic Evagrius
Ponticus (d. 399).
"I see a danger," Ebert cautions, "of a typological model like the
Enneagram being misused to thoughtlessly force oneself and others into a schematic
mold, and thereby not grow, but become fossilized. When misused, the
Enneagram can be more of a curse than a blessing."
"Much of what is called Christianity," writes Rohr, "has more to
do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any
real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God." The
Enneagram has forced some people, he says, "to a brutal and converting honesty
about good and evil and the ways that we hide from ourselves and therefore hide
from God."
The Enneagram identifies nine types of personal gifts that can easily
be twisted into a sin typical for that person. Such a sin can be so comfortable
that only with difficulty can that person see it as a sin. The Enneagram can
help people grow in loving others, themselves and God. Each of these nine Enneagram
types can be redeemed and is that person's characteristic path to holiness—in
"No type is better or worse than the rest," explain Rohr and Ebert.
"All nine are in need of redemption and all nine have unique gifts that only
they can bring into the community."
After a general explanation of these types, the authors devote a
single chapter to each one and then present a section about how the various
types tend to interrelate. The volume concludes with 14 pages of notes, a 13-page
Index and three charts. My six years of living in Italy suggest that on this
chart Rohr and Ebert have misidentified the Italians' characteristic vice/gift.
The single chapters follow a standard format: overview of the type,
dilemma (temptations, defense mechanisms, root sin, avoidances and gifts), symbols
and examples, then conversion and maturation.
People representing the nine types could read this volume according
to their characteristic sin/gift, simply reinforcing how good they are at doing
any of the following: reforming, helping, being successful, being different,
understanding, being loyal, being happy, being strong or being content.
Rohr and Ebert certainly hope that readers will approach this volume with
enough humility to see how often and subtly we trade an invigorating,
God-given freedom for puny half-truths about ourselves, others
and God.
You can order THE ENNEAGRAM: A Christian Perspective
from St. Francis
ROCKS OF AGES: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, by
Stephen Jay Gould. Ballantine. 241 pp. $12.95.
Reviewed by MARIA KEMPER, a theology undergraduate at Franciscan
University of Steubenville, and an editorial intern with St. Anthony Messenger
last summer.
THE LATE Stephen Jay Gould's view of scientists and theologians
seems like the squabbling husband and wife who draw a chalk line down the center
of their house and decide to reign supreme in "their territory"—while calling
it peaceful coexistence. In one sense this is accurate, for science and religion
are certainly distinct realms. In another sense it is not, because Gould was
also an agnostic, and so does not present the whole story. (Gould, born September
10, 1941, died May 20, 2002, from cancer caused by asbestos.)
Yet his book Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness
of Life is a good addition to the faith and science discussion, for in it
Gould explains his concept of Non-Overlapping Magisterium (NOMA). This is a
point often overlooked in both circles: Science and religion should be separate,
but equal.
Rocks of Ages treats the creation/evolution debate in the
United States and the apparent conflict between science and faith in an engaging
way. Gould writes clearly and with wry humor, and advances a complicated argument
simply. An average adult with no background on the subject can pick up the book
and understand it.
His topic is timely, for if ever a gulf existed between the matters
of science and the matters of morality, it is certainly closing now with the
conflict over cloning.
Gould makes distinctions in the accountability of science and religion.
He is respectful toward religion and religious people. He understands and explains
that the Church does not suppress scientific development, and even refutes the
popular notion that all Church leaders at the time of Columbus thought the earth
was flat. (Some of them disputed the size of the earth, and were correct.)
Gould gives a fair view of the limits of science in regard to ethics.
Even with all this, he falls short of stumbling across the truth.
Perhaps because of his agnostic stance, he sets a sphere for science
to rule, and a separate one for God. One of the limits of NOMA is that the Trinity
is forbidden to poke a finger into the well-defined boundaries of science to
perform miracles.
Indeed, the only God he refers to in his conception of NOMA is the
"clockwinder God" of the Deists, who started creation merrily ticking toward
eternity and hasn't bothered with it since. He allows for theistic scientists
as long as they can place their religion in a box and don't let it interfere
with their "day job."
His references are somewhat one-sided. To show the relation between
science and faith, he mentions Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley, whose religion
(atheistic humanism) did not interfere with their scientific thought or progress.
Unfortunately, he forgets to mention Christians whose faith supported them in
their scientific endeavors, like Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur and Gregor Mendel.
Consistent with Gould's belief in the separation of science and
faith, he believes that, just as religion has nothing to tell science, science
has nothing to teach religion. Gould denies that one can take any moral insight
from nature. Such a lack of integration in truth from the same God rankled with
me long after I closed the book.
Later that evening I realized why I was troubled. Such a dichotomy
cannot exist for long. Belief without natural corroboration is a blind judge.
And science without morals is a tyrant. Gould's view of blissful noninterference
is not enough.
Science and theology are two hands of revelation, according to the
great Franciscan theologian St. Bonaventure. True, there should be noninterference.
Even more than that, there should be cooperation. The God of theology and the
God of scientific learning are one and the same.
You can order ROCKS OF AGES: Science and Religion in
the Fullness of Life from St.
Francis Bookshop.
OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 218 pp. $25.
Reviewed by the REV. MICHAEL ORSI, a research fellow in
law and religion at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
DURING HIS RECENT TRIP to Poland, Pope John Paul II observed
that the new millennium offers "new prospects of development [for] mankind,
together with hitherto unheard-of dangers." The dangers arise, according to
the pope, from our habit of claiming for ourselves "the Creator's right to interfere
in the mystery of human life" and our wish "to determine human life through
genetic manipulation and to establish the limit of death."
In Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution,
social philosopher and member of the President's Council on Bioethics Francis
Fukuyama masterfully echoes the pope's concerns. By viewing the potential effects
of advances like neuropharmacology and genetic engineering in light of a Western
philosophical understanding of human beings and the threat they pose to natural
rights, Fukuyama posts caveats as well as solutions for protecting human dignity.
[These caveats take on special importance in light of recent claims to have
cloned several human babies.]
Fukuyama makes a case for the need to regulate biotechnology since
it often lends itself to reductionist theories. These compromise the integral
wholeness of the human being and, consequently, human rights and freedom.
He identifies human species-specific characteristics regarding physical
appearance and cognition. He relies on experience and reason to determine the
gamut of human emotions and the species' ingrained respect for the "golden rule."
Fukuyama challenges the errors in philosophical systems that propose
the impossibility of naming or prioritizing "human goods." He especially notes
the damage caused by David Hume's "naturalistic fallacy" ("You can't get an
ought from an is"), and John Rawl's theory of rights based on
reciprocity (the balancing of interests which are now embedded in U.S. Constitutional
An example of the devastation that these legal theories have caused
is now enshrined in the Supreme Court's 1992 decision in Casey v. Planned
Parenthood, which states, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define
one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery
of human life."
He believes that, with no clear limits, new technologies and procedures
in genetic engineering could endanger what we know to be human. Dangers are
already present, for example, in pre-embryo selection by the well-to-do for
desired traits in their offspring. Social scientists warn that this could produce
an over-class of humans and great disparity in terms of equality.
Even more disturbing is the possibility of germ-line (genetic) engineering.
Fukuyama says these therapies could indeed change the species through gene enhancement
of traits such as longevity, athletic prowess, intelligence, musical talents
and perhaps even a diminution of feelings or an increase of aggressiveness in
order to create a caste for military tasks.
Fukuyama worries that those qualities that are distinctly human
may be forever changed since the altered creatures' genes would be passed on
through normal sexual reproduction or mass-produced in laboratories.
More worrisome is the danger that germ-line breeding could eliminate
the opportunities to grow in the human virtues of compassion, courage and charity,
causing the human person to be lost.
Fukuyama does not favor a laissez-faire approach to biotechnology.
He sees the need for both national and international regulatory
commissions to safeguard human life and dignity. He believes
that present commissions and oversight committees are limited
by their missions and resources.
Fukuyama is to be commended for bringing the voice of religion,
as well as the insights of secular ethicists, into the debate to balance utilitarian
science. Not to be aware of and plan for what science can do to us, he says,
will compromise our very humanity.
You can order OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
from St. Francis
Book Briefs
With the war in Iraq, these books take on special urgency.
BLESSINGS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD, edited by Thomas R. O'Brien (Our Sunday Visitor, 127 pp., $6.95). These touching stories of Catholic military chaplains were collected by the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. The stories here range from the frontlines in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War to veterans' hospitals. What is striking is the comfort the sacraments bring and how ecumenically sensitive these chaplains are.
HOLY WAR: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World, by Karen Armstrong (Anchor Books/a division of Random House, Inc., 628 pp., $17, U.S., $26, Canada). First published in the United Kingdom in 1988, this book's second edition has a Preface written after September 11, 2001. A religious scholar rather than a professional historian, Armstrong spells out why the Crusades unleashed hatred which reverberates to this day.
JESUS AND MUHAMMED: The Parallel Sayings, edited by Joey Green, with a Foreword by Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed and an Introduction by Dr. Kenneth Atkinson (Seastone/a division of Ulysses Press, 189 pp., $14). Quotes from the New Testament are presented next to key Islamic texts drawn from the Koran and the Hadith (oral reports of Muhammed's companions). Key values like charity, sin and the hereafter are similar, but 10 pages show differences, too.
Books can be obtained through St.
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News 12 at 11 o'clock, July 15, 2007
AUGUSTA, Ga.---Questions swirl after a fire claimed a life in south Augusta.
The deputy coroner says 36-year-old Willie Tumblin was pronounced dead just before 6 o'clock yesterday morning.
Family members say they have reason to believe it may not have been an accident.
"It's a hard pill to swallow," said Kathi Coleman, Willie Tumblin's cousin. She still can't believe what happened.
"We were right up the street, and I got a call saying my auntie's trailer was on fire."
At about 4:30 yesterday morning, a fire broke out at a trailer off Jack Kelly Road.
"We thought he was walking up and down the street, or maybe he caused the fire by accident and was hiding out, but we come to find out he was in the house," Coleman said.
The deputy coroner says Tumblin was pronounced dead a little more than an hour after the 9-1-1 call came in. He died of heavy soot and smoke inhalation.
"It's a small trailer," Coleman said. "To think he couldn't smell something burning before it got that big? Something's not right."
Fire investigators say they believe the fire may have started in the living room, where Tumblin often slept, and all signs appear to show the fire was accidental.
But Coleman still has doubts.
"He was found between his bed and dresser, but he could've easily come out this window," she said, pointing.
Coleman says 24 hours after the fire ravaged the home, two people told her they heard someone threatening to burn her cousin's home down a day before the fire.
"If he didn't pay the money--and it was my understanding it was $25, anyone could have gave him that, but I guess it happened the way they said it would. But we want to get to the bottom of it," Coleman said.
Tumblin's mother also lived at the home, but family members tell us she was staying with another relative when the fire occurred.
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From a Digg comment on our post about a WaMu branch telling a man saying they didn't have enough money on hand to let him withdraw $4200: "funny because i had the same experience at a Wamu. My wife had trouble cashing a $5000 check and we had to drive around to three branches until finally, after insisting continuously, that they finally cashed it!"
Not just me then I guess!
Not all WaMus I guess. I pulled out $7800 in cash recently to buy a bunch of international postal money orders before going to Japan.
They bitched and moaned when I wanted to cash a $1200 check. I should have called in advance they said.
Sometimes I wonder if all these posts don't just act as an operating manual for managers of scuzzy businesses looking for the lowest common denominator to which they can sink. "Hey, look what WaMu got away with today!" I can hear them saying.
Same thing happened to my and my ex-roommate. We went to cash the $5,500 security deposit check (in New York City) at a WaMu, and they wouldn't. They told us to open a joint account (yea, right) and wait 4-5 business days for the check to clear.
We went to Chase, the bank the check was drawn on, and they told us the same thing!
Finally, Citibank (my bank) came through — so long as we both provided photo IDs.
FYI, WAMU is closing down some more housing business as well.
Sorry that didn't come out right.
Wamu is closing down some residential lending branches right now.
I'm just guessing here, but wouldn't banks be legally obligated to let you withdraw even "large" sums of money. I mean a few K is nothing for some people. It's your money, they are obligated to provide you legal tender no?
@juggler314: They're not obligated to give you cash. Every single one of these stories begins with "they offered me a cashiers check, but I want cash".
Yeah, almost every bank I know does not keep too much cash on hand – out of fear of getting robbed, I assume, and will instead offer a cashier's check free of charge. It's not WAMU specific.


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It hurts every time, and since I'm from Canada, I have to convert the 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 32 degrees Celsius, and then it hurts again. It hurts me twice. That's the penalty for dual citizenship.
People say you should go out and enjoy the sun, but all I do is sit in my apartment and think about how hot it is, drinking cold sugary drink after cold sugary drink. I treat the heat like it's a chemical spill and the authorities have told me to stay inside until the worst is over. When the heat dissipates around 8 or 9 p.m., I slowly poke my head outside in my hazmat suit, making sure it's clear. Then I fearfully run back inside and drink another Snapple (send me free Snapples!).
Look, I just don't accept the sun for who it is. I like the sun's light, because it helps me see things, but I don't need any of that heat bullshit. It's like when a famous actor only wants to talk about their new band, and not their movie career, which is what made them famous. If the sun could just focus on giving us light without making us sweat, I'd be way more into it.
How I long for the rain! Sometimes, when a person dies, it's hard for loved ones to remember their face. That's how I feel about the rain right now. I can't remember what it looks like, and how it feels. I can picture clouds and faucets and umbrellas, but not the rain. It won't come to me. Psychologists say it helps to picture a memory; yet, when I think of that rainy morning when I first learned to ride a bike, all I can see is fire.
There are those who say this is nothing, that there are parts of the country where it gets much hotter, and as usual, such points are useless. Do not ask me to take things into context when my eyes are burning from the dripping sweat on my forehead. I moved to Seattle because I loved the cool breezes blowing in off the water, which allowed me to only take one shower a day. In this heat, I'm up to four; five if I'm seeing a girl later.
Seattle just doesn't look good with sun. It's like how some guys can't pull off a Hawaiian t-shirt (so many analogies). You see them wearing the Hawaiian t-shirt, trying to look all festive, and no one's buying it. Well, I'm not buying the sun on you, Seattle (it's weird that I'm addressing the whole city, as if anyone cares). The Space Needle looks better against a dark, grey sky, and Seattleites look better with flannel shirts and hoodies than with t-shirts and shorts. Or at least I do.
And so we've come to this: does anyone know where I can get an air conditioner? I can't remember how to purchase an air conditioner. I'm looking for something about the size of a milk carton that blows cold air; not warm air, like a heater, and not steam, like a humidifier. I'm not making that mistake again. "It'll get cold," they told me. "Just give it time." Liars!
What I really want is the most powerful air conditioner on the planet, but I'm not going to install it in my window. I'm going to attach it to a generator, and launch it at the sun, like that volcano scene in Star Trek Into Darkness. Yes, destroying the sun may cause all the plant and animal life on this planet to die, but at least it will be cool before we die. At least it won't be 90.


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Sooner or later, a social networking site for video blogging is going to be as popular as Twitter and Facebook. With more and more people owning cellphone video cams, it makes sense to shoot and post a quick video to your friends and followers.
Well, it looks like a fairly new iPhone and Android app named Socialcam might very well become the Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram of video sharing on the net.
How It Works
Socialcam has some advantages over the previous and similar video sharing sites in that there's no limitation to the length of videos and storage of content. You can also share existing videos from your video library.
As with Twitter and Facebook, your posted videos become part of your Socialcam stream that your followers and the general public can view. You can also set videos to be viewed privately or only by your followers, and of course your video stream can be linked or posted to your other social networking sites, including YouTube, Tumblr, Posterous, and even to your Dropbox account. You can also send via SMS.
How to Shoot Videos
If you know how to use the videocam on your iPhone or Android, you're set to go on Socialcam. After you set up an account, via Facebook or your email account, you simply shoot your video – typically using the front facing camera of your smartphone.
Socialcam will recommend a handful of very popular Socialcamers whose posts demonstrate how easy it is to shoot a video about whatever is on your mind. Celebrities like MC Hammer, Soulja Boy, Carl Thomas, Shira Lazar, The Roxie, and TMZ already have a huge following and collection of posted videos. But don't think you have to be a celebrity to post on Socialcam. Most ordinary cammers share about their personal day and activities.
Themes & Filters
Another little cute feature for Socialcam videos are the app's themes and soundtracks. When you're done shooting your video, you can add one of about twelve introduction themes to your production.
I've been using the Journal theme, which is great if you plan to use Socialcam for vlogging. Other themes add a centered title or subtitle to your production. You can test out the theme before applying it to your video.
Socialcam also has a nice assortment of background soundtracks for different occasions – from action to more melodious sounds. Not everyone uses them, but I find they make videos easier to listen to. Fortunately, you can also preview your video (and change the theme or soundtrack) before posting to your stream.
You can change the title and privacy settings of video posts at any time by tapping the Info button at the bottom of a post, and then tap the gear button at the top. This is also the same area for sharing to other websites.
It takes a few minutes for videos to post to your public stream, but it's all done in the background, so you can check out other videos or open other apps while your video is being uploaded. You're notified when the upload is complete.
Getting Viewers
Of course most people share videos online so they can be seen. If you already have an extensive social network following, Socialcam makes it dead simple to invite your followers to view your posts on Socialcam.
If you don't have many contacts and you're looking to build a following on Socialcam, I suggest you tap the Popular button in the bottom menu on Socialcam. From there, tap on the Trending button, and then check out the dozen or so trending topics of interests. This is a good way to discover Socialcamers beyond the celebrities or popular posters.
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When you produce a video, use the title space to add your tags. Unfortunately there's not a special entry for tags separate from the title.
Just as you do on Twitter and Facebook, you can also attract followers by simply following other members and leaving comments. You can set up your Socialcam account to automatically link to your social networking sites. As you begin to add friends, you can specifically tag them to let them know you've posted a video, particularly if you mentioned their name in it. Even after you post a video, you can simply tap the tiny Info button, select Friends > Tag Friends, and tap the names you want to tag. The same can be done for Facebook friends.
Will Socialcam catch on like Instagram or Twitter? It's hard to tell. I personally find the site a little addictive, and that may be a problem, because watching videos is more time consuming than viewing a stream of photos or reading tweets. But I think once you get active on Socialcam, it can become a great way to befriend like-minded people. Or if you don't care much about building a following, Socialcam can become your personal vlog or video journal.
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Hello and welcome 00 50.
I started running 11 years ago and am now in my late 60s. Can't run at any speed but have done a couple of half-marathons and a few shorter races.
JJ - grand-daughter all day and then straight to a meeting with no dinner?? - That sounds Bad.
8.87 miles this afternoon at an incredibly slow speed, - I bet Matsmum's mountain run was faster. I blame the lack of caffeine in the bloodstream.
All good wishes to TE - I look forward to hearing all about it.
I see we have some spritely old folks on here . I have been running for 25 years or so and expect my legs to be giving up on me some tome soon.
Matsmum, I know Murcia. My wife did a month of teacher training there and we made a family visit. I didn't get to run unfortunately.
Well I'm also racing tomorrow in the build up for the London Marathon which I'll do in April. It the Buttermere Round, a small race from Keswick for enthusiasts of hills. It's 34K and includes the Honister Pass. Not for the faint hearted
Thanks everyone for your best wishes, and I'll do my best not to let you down. It's 3 degrees at the moment, with a top temperature of 9 degrees forecast. The car is covered in frost, so I will be "defrosting it" in good time before we set off. We have been meticulous in our training, not missing a club session, or planned training runs. We can do no more now, than to enjoy the race, and finish in good condition.
00 50 good luck with your race, and we look forward to your race report.
Afternoon all,
Thanks for all your support. The circle of life continues and Josh (Fran's eldest) has just announced that his girlfriend Emma will be having a baby in August so Levine will be a granddad
OK, I'm fully up to date with all your antics! Here's a brief summary of what I've been up to - West Dean was fab (Columba, I was learning, not teaching) and I ran each day, all on hilly lanes so I've done some Kenyan hills and some intervals. Today I did 18 miles on a route with a very hilly first part (9.5 miles) with an undulating second part (8.5 miles). It took 2 hours to do the first bit and then 1.5 hours to do the second bit which gives some indication of the inclines Just been out for a 3 mile walk to loosen my legs and am feeling good. My breathing was laboured on the really steep bits but not as bad as it has been so I'm happy
Hi OO and welcome to the thread. I'm a few years older than you but haven't been running as long (just 11 years). Hope your race went well - sounds like a lovely route (I love hills!!!). I'll be doing VLM too with Brighton the week before.
Matsmum, well done on your long run. Try not to worry about your time and, as JJ says, just think of it as 'time on feet'. If I stopped to think about my times I'd be really downhearted as most of my routes are hilly, but I know that on a flat course I run much faster.
Terry, sorry I didn't make it on here to wish you good luck but I have been sending you supportive vibes so I hope it went well. I bet it was a doddle for you actually as you'd be keeping the pace down for your partner.
Columba, LOL at your caffeine withdrawal! I'm doing my vegan stint for Lent as usual but I'm allowed caffeine Someone told me today that they are allowed to have weekends off their abstenance which seemed a bit odd to me. I always do it for the whole time.
JJ are you running the TWells 1/2 or marshalling? I decided against doing it this year.
IW, how's your running comeback going?
'00' 50 - hope the race went well. I am 63 and female, began running at age 11, worked my way through track, cross country, and orienteering prior to doing any road running, then managed 45 marathons and 7 Ironman triathlons before being sidelined by injury last year. Just getting back into running since Christmas, I had to have a hip replacement (titanium, hence the name) last summer and suffer through a 6-month running ban.
2000m swim this morning, 1 hour on the bike, and a 1 mile run - getting back into normal Sunday training mode! First triathlon this year on 12th May.
'OO' - I don't think you need anticipate your legs giving up on you (or perhaps it depends on what you mean by "giving up"). Getting slower is inevitable as we get older, but I don't think giving up is inevitable unless we develop some really disabling condition.
Red - the concept of actually loving hills is one that escapes me. Getting used to them, yes; coping with them, yes; even taking them in your stride, yes; but loving them?
Within the RC Church you're allowed the day off Lenton observance if it's a "Holy Day of Obligation". In England and Wales, however, no such "Holy Days" fall in Lent. In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day does, and Irish children who've given up sweets for Lent have a sweetie binge on St. Patrick's Day. But weekends, no. I suppose you might make a case for Sundays, but not the whole weekend.
Did you learn a lot of useful stuff on your course?
Columba, thanks for clarifying the Lent thing. I learnt loads and am busy uploading photos at the moment. Full details will be on my blog eventually but it will take me ages to write about it!
Bionic, I always wondered about hip replacement (surely a sign of age), so you can run after the op? Does it shorten the life of the joint?
Well I also love the Lakes and the race today was indeed vey scenic. I love hills too Redhead but where I live it's flat so this race is hard to train for and is a real killer. Anyhow I ran well and came 6th in a small field of around 50-60 hardcore runners. Mainly mountain goat types with beards and stoops and feet that point upwards- and that was just the ladies. I'm feeling pleased with myself although my ability to walk is somewhat restricted this evening.
And all credit to the Vet runners. Of the top 6 finishers, 2 were 40+ and 2 were 50+
Red, thanks for your supportive vibes and also Matsmum.
Helen and I were running "on a high," as my Daughter has announced she is arranging her marriage in April, and Helen got engaged on Valentines Day.
The race went really well, and we finished well inside our target of 3.30, in 3.23.15, an average of 10.07, and a staggering 2394 calories. I felt much stronger during the second 10 miles (it was two 10 mile circuits) through going at an easy pace, but kept a steady 10 minute miling pace. Helen said that she wouldn't mind if I sped off for the last 3 or 4 miles, but it was her training race for the VLM, and I was there as her pacemaker. I felt so proud of her as she was able to put in a sprint at the finish, and we crossed the line together. We were very disappointed, however, that there wasn't a wine glass in the goodie bag, as had been in the past. I'm looking forward now to the results, to see where I came in the 65-70 class, that is if they break it down that far. We have had discussions on this thread before, as how unfair it is to categorise 60-70. What chance does a 67 year old have of getting in the top 3, against young 60 year olds.
00 50 well done in your race, sounds like a toughie. I presume it was all off road? I much prefer trail running in the forest, as long distance running on the road is rather boring, and not kind to the joints and muscles.
Columba, I love hills, and always have done, since I was a paper boy, riding a trade bike with panniers each side loaded with papers, and cycling up a very steep hill. The bike had no gears and very dodgy brakes. It wouldn't be allowed on the roads these days!
Well done!
My surgeon says I can run up to half-marathon distance, but no more marathons, which of course means I can't do any more Ironman distance triathlons, except as swimmer or more likely cyclist in a relay team. I'm too slow as a swimmer to be of much use in a team. Life span of a titanium joint is 15 years. I am back up to running 10km, not very fast yet but working on it.
TEI've been campaigning for years about putting everyone over 60 into the same age group. It's rediculous at a time when the age degeneration curve is steepening quickly. I've had some success in Kent where there is now an M70 category in the XC league.Lots of good things to celebrate! 0050Good result. Well done. I've always had a problem with hilly races. I run well on hills but I like aiming for PBs and the two are a big mismatch.RedI shall be marshalling. Haven't done enough training for a 10k let alone a 1/2m.Your training is looking quite good.JJ
It was all on road TE, but what a road...Great effort on your race, very good of you to play the role of paceman.
Amazing bionic, sounds like nothig can stop you! Unfortunately I can only run. I can swim long distances with breast stroke but pathetically slow.
I swim crawl but not very fast, I have a best time for 1000m of 23 mns whereas my OH has a PB of 16:24. Not allowed to swim breast stroke, the frog-kick rotation is very bad for hip patients.
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Well done 00. Sounds as if you're a speedy boy if you came in 6th in a field of mountain goats!
TE. well done to you and your protege. Did she find it a comfortable pace? I'm assuming she's aiming for 9.5 min miling for the actual marathon?
No running today but lots of gardening as it's a glorious day
Red, thanks. She found the first circuit to be quite comfortable, but tough during the second. Probably miles 15 to 18 were the toughest for her and I really had to use all my race experience and encouragement to keep her up to speed. During the last 2 miles, we were passing lots of runners who had set off too quickly, and were tiring. This encouraged Helen, and we actually picked up the pace, and the last mile in 9.41 was the quickest of all. I was very impressed that she was able to manage a sprint finish. Regarding the VLM I think she would be happy to maintain a 10 min pace. I didn't take any gels with me, and just drank water at the drinks stations, although some had energy drinks as well.
I am now very undecided on the way ahead for myself, race wise.I am very tempted to enter the SD Marathon and Pompey Coastal Marathon, as I will be continuing a high mileage plus club speed and hill sessions, so that I can continue to do the LSD runs with Helen in the weeks leading to race day. My quandary is, do I make the most of the mileage for marathons, or consider the mileage as "in the bank," and concentrate more on speed work, to get my 10k, 10 mile and half marathon times down. I would appreciate any comments or advice on which route to take.
Terence I'd say it depends when the marathon is. I train for a marathon for about 4 months but keep up my base mileage all year with a 18-20 mile long run ever 4-6 weeks. Then it comes as less of a shock. If your planned race is less that 4 months you need to keep on with the marathon plan. If it's more than that you can concentrate on other distances, with speed work etc. And with an occasional long run to keep your hand in.
TE, well you know my answer to that - marathons! Having said that, I reckon you could smash some of your pbs on the way to the SDM as that's many months away yet. Are you looking for a marathon pb too? (sorry, I can't remember what yours is). I don't think many people would consider the SDM to be a marathon to enter for a pb, but then you are super-speedy.........
TE, Well done! I sent positive vibes to you at 10.35, thinking you were probably just under way!
OO50,Fantastic effort - Buttermere is supposed to be harder than a marathon, so you should find London a breeze. I am so happy you are going to be there. I am 65 and this is my first marathon. Friends on this forum are talking me through it. Red is running it too. Just ask her what she is going to be doing while she runs !! I am not in the least competitive except with myself. I have always kept fit but mostly through dance. I think the fastest I have run was when I was 14 and the Cuban missile crisis was under way. It was when the Cold War came closest to turning into nuclear conflict. My parents were at work and every day I used to try to run home within 4 minutes which was the warning you got, so that I could be at home with my dog when we were blown to smithereens! ( Does anybody else remember MAD - the term for mutual assured destruction? ) I started properly running after Good Friday 2009 when my 24 year old son died in a car accident. And now I want to run marathons. I am determined VLM will be the first of many.
JJ, how old is your granddaughter? My lot are ages 17, 16, 14, 13, 11, 8, 7, 7, 5, 2, and 2. I have founded a dynasty.
Little K is representing the Eastern Region in Derbyshire in March. She is going by coach and staying in a hotel over night. She thinks she's died and gone to heaven!
BI - I forgot to say that my husband has bought us some walking poles to do some Nordic Walking. We looked up how to do it on you tube and then had a go on the mountain road. I am sorry to say that we were absolutely helpless with laughter and didn't achieve any kind of workout. But heyho, tomorrow is another day. We will get the proper ones when we go home. Can you recommend a make please?
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