Zerihun Assefa, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been nominated to serve as associate editor of the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia. The Bulletin publishes peer reviewed articles and is one of the leading chemistry related journals in Africa. Assefa is in charge of editing inorganic chemistry manuscripts submitted to the periodical.

Rod Broadway, has been named head football coach. He comes to N.C. A&T from Grambling State University where he served as head coach since 2007.

 

Prior to Grambling, Broadway was head coach at North Carolina Central University. Between Grambling and Central, Broadway compiled a record of 68-23. In his second year at Grambling, he led the Tigers to an 11-2 record and the Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship. In addition, he has held coaching positions at the University of North Carolina, the University of Florida, Duke and East Carolina University.

 

Broadway is a graduate of the University of North Carolina where he played on the defensive line and helped lead Carolina to the 1974 Sun Bowl and the 1977 Liberty Bowl. Among his honors were the team's Outstanding Freshman (1974) and Most Outstanding Senior (1977), and All-ACC honors (1977).

Mark Burkey, associate professor in the Department of Economics and Finance, has co-authored a chapter, "Voronoi Diagrams and Their Uses," in the book, Foundations of Location Analysis, edited by H.A. Eiselt and Vladimir Marianov. Burkey's co-authors are Joy Bhadury of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and H.A. Eiselt of the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Pamella Chavis, a clinical associate professor in the School of Nursing, will travel to Basseterre, St. Kitts, West Indies, Feb. 18-24, to participate in the 2011 Mission and Medical Initiative that is sponsored by Moses Cone Memorial Hospital and the Global Faith Alliance. Three senior nursing students – Gervis Bullock, Jessica Davis and Amy Lomax – will accompany Chavis on the trip for their service learning project.
      
The objective of the weeklong medical mission will be to provide free healthcare, education and training for approximately 5,000 citizens of the island. It will serve as an opportunity to enhance faculty and student understanding of concepts and issues related to global healthcare issues in order to formulate research ideas and health promotion for underserviced populations across the world. Upon returning, students and faculty will share information regarding their experiences with colleagues and peers during the School of Nursing's April faculty meeting and annual Research Day in October.

Beverly Grier, chair of the Department of Liberal Studies, presented a paper, "From Kisumu to Mombasa: The Recruitment of Child Labor in Colonial Kenya During the 1920s and Early 1930s," at the Children's Work in Africa Workshop, Jan.31- Feb. 1, at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Children, largely boys between the ages of 7 and 14, were recruited to work on coffee, tea and sisal estates as far as 600 miles away from home. At the end of their labor contracts, many of these boys drifted to the cities of the colony to form the earliest population of street children. The workshop was organized by the Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History of the International Research Center.

Earl M. Hilton III, has been appointed athletics director. For the past three months, Hilton has served as interim athletics director. He also has served as assistant vice chancellor of student affairs and as associate athletics director.

 

Hilton has extensive experience in athletics and expertise in NCAA compliance, budget oversight and personnel management. Prior to coming to A&T, Hilton was assistant athletics director at Buffalo State University and academic counselor for athletics at Texas Tech University.

Thelma King, associate professor in the Department of Business Education, and Beryl McEwen, interim associate dean in the School of Business and Economics, have co-authored an article titled, Teaching Diverse Learners in Online Basic Business Classes. The article was published in the Business Education Forum (Vol. 65, No. 2, December 2010).

Keyana Scales has been appointed director of undergraduate admissions. Scales comes to A&T having most recently served as associate director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina State University. She also has served as recruitment operations manager at N.C. State. She has a master's degree in counselor education and a bachelor's degree in communications. She is also a National Board Certified Counselor.

Lisa Gueldenzoph Snyder, associate professor and interim chair in the Department of Business Education, recently co-authored a textbook, Business Communication: Polishing Your Professional Presence. The book is co-authored with Barbara Shwom of Northwestern University and published by Pearson Prentice Hall.

Alice Stewart, an associate professor of strategic management in the Department of Business Administration, was the first-place winner of the Graduate Admission Council's (GMAC) Ideas to Innovation Challenge. She was awarded a cash prize of $50,000.
       
GMAC presented more than $260,000 in prizes to 20 individuals whose ideas to creatively change management education rose above all other entries in the council's global challenge. More than 650 people from 60 countries participated in the contest. Stewart won the challenge with her idea to allow management education students to use "stackable knowledge units" to craft customized degree programs closely aligned with today's information-based technology.

 

Prior to joining the faculty at A&T in 2004, Stewart taught strategy and international business at Ohio State University and the University of Pittsburgh. The University of Kentucky alumna has a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.