Professional Announcements

A paper authored by Armand Gilinsky, Business, and Robert Eyler, Economics, University of Florence professor Christina Santini, and Luciana Lazzerretti won the Best Paper Award at the fourth annual Association for Wine Business Research Conference in Siena, Italy, July 2008. The paper, titled "Desperately Seeking Serendipity: Exploring the Impact of Country Location in Innovation in the Wine Industry," was a result of a scholarly exchange agreement between SSU and the University of Florence. Under this agreement, Santini spent four months conducting research in Sonoma and Napa counties during 2006-2007 while Gilinsky spent three months in Tuscany during 2008.

Brantley Bryant, English, participated in a week-long "Summer Institute in Literary Studies" on "Chaucer: Past, Present, and Future" at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina in July. The Center is the only major independent American institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities. He was one of fourteen faculty within ten years of their Ph.D. selected from a national application process to participate in the seminar. It was led by Stanford professor and renowned Chaucer scholar Seth Lerer.