Professional Announcements

2/7/05

Douglas Jordan, School of Business and Economics, and co-author David Diltz from the University of Texas at Arlington had their paper "Day Traders and the Disposition Effect" published in the December (Volume 5, number 4) issue of The Journal of Behavioral Finance. The basic finding of the paper is that day traders tend to hold on to losing trades longer than profitable trades.

Brenda Lear, Student Union Campus Recreation, was inducted into Upper Moreland High School's (Willow Grove, Penn.) first ever Athletic Hall Fame class during a ceremony on Feb. 5. Brenda played field hockey, lacrosse, and swam at Upper Moreland H.S. before playing field hockey at the University of Delaware where she was named a two-time NCAA Division I All-American Player. She coached at Princeton, Northwestern, and University of the Pacific after playing with the national team for one year.

Tyler Miller, Residential Life, earned $447 from the Ron Logsdon Professional Development Program to assist with funding for his attendance at the National Housing Training Institute at the University of Maryland this summer. The Logsdon Committee would like to thank all of the Student Services Professionals who submitted applications and encourages all SSPs I-IV to apply to this program in the future, says scholarship coordinator Laurie Ogg. The application period opens in fall of 2005.

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