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The School of Business welcomes
four new faculty appointments.
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 Jose' H. Dula', Ph.D., associate
professor of Operations Management, has joined the Management Department.
His areas of teaching and research include optimization, quantitative
methods in OM and MS including networks, inventory control, scheduling,
modeling and probability and statistics including stochastic processes.
He has taught at Southern Methodist University and the University
of Mississippi, and was a visiting principal researcher, Computing
Research Group with the U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Research
Division for the year ending 2003. His research has been published
in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal
on Computing and Journal of Productivity
Analysis. He earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees
in Applied Mathematics and Industrial and Operations Engineering
from The University of Michigan, M.S. from Stanford University and
Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from The University
of Michigan.
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 Myung S. Park, Ph.D. joins the Department
of Accounting as an assistant professor. He also is a member of the
editorial board of Journal of Accounting and Finance.
His areas of teaching and research include financial accounting,
managerial accounting and accounting information systems (AIS),
with heavy concentration on empirical research in financial accounting,
managerial accounting and AIS. Dr. Park received a Bachelor of
Arts
degree from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, an MBA from
Korea University, Seoul, and a second MBA from Syracuse University
and
a Ph.D. from Purdue University. His latest research endeavor on "Pricing
of Seasoned Equity Offers and Earnings Management" is forthcoming
in 2004 in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
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 Laura Razzolini, Ph.D. joins the
Economics Department as an associate professor. She also is managing
editor of the Southern Economic Journal;
specializes in public economics, and her research focuses on the
effects of cost allocations on the provision of shared goods. She
frequently conducts economic experiments in a laboratory setting
to test the predictions of models of behavior. She previously taught
at the University of Mississippi and was program director for National
Science Foundation's Economics program until August 2003. She currently
is working on projects that examine how different contribution mechanisms
affect the amount raised in charity auctions and lotteries, and how
different pricing mechanisms affect the congestion on a computer
network, Her research has been published in Experimental
Economics, Journal of Economic Theory and Public
Choice. Dr. Razzolini earned a Laurea (Baccalaureate)
from University of Florence, Italy; a research doctorate from University
of Bologna, Italy; an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist
University.
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 Brent C. Smith, Ph.D. assistant
professor, Real Estate and Urban Development, will be teaching
and continuing
his research exploring the impact of macroeconomic factors on real
property investment, and real estate market modeling while contributing
to the research demands of the Virginia Real Estate Center, housed
at VCU. Articles produced from Dr. Smith’s previous research
activity have been published in the journal Real Estate
Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance
and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and Urban
Affairs Review, and the International Journal
of Property Tax Assessment and Administration. Dr.
Smith previously taught at Western Michigan University and Indiana
University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Indiana
University, an M.B.A. from University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. from
Indiana University.
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If you have News or Event information,
Comments or Questions about this Area,
Please email Katherine Oliver lkoliver@vcu.edu |
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