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March 6, 2006
Contact: Ross Feltz – 724-738-2919; e-mail:
ross.feltz@sru.edu; cell: 724-679-1376
BUSINESS EDITOR TO KEYNOTE RESEARCH
SYMPOSIUM
SLIPPERY
ROCK, Pa.—“Research for the Rest of Us: Practical
Applications from a Journalist Perspective” will be the topic
for the plenary address at Slippery Rock University’s
Symposium for Research and Scholarship to be held March 30-31 in
the University Union.
“Few of us get
an opportunity to do the kind of laboratory and advanced research
that leads to important innovations in our society,” says
Lauren Lawley Head, editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times, the
region’s leading business journal. “But, whether we are
a teacher, salesperson, manager, or a journalist, we must find ways
to gather and process vast amounts of data into research that we
can use.”
Lawley
Head’s discussion will be from 12:30 to 1:30 in the
Multi-Purpose Room of the University Union on March 30.
“With a
background in both economics and journalism, we thought Ms. Lawley
Head would bring a slightly different perspective to our symposium
and help us show that research is something not just for scientists
and educators,” says Dr. Theresa Wajda, School of Business
faculty member and chair of this year’s symposium. “Her
keynote should be especially interesting to communication and
English majors and students in the School of
Business.”
Following
Lawley Head’s address, presentations from more than 50
research projects by students and faculty are schedule over the two
days. “We have had a terrific response with some 60 abstracts
submitted this year. Our committee is hoping for a good turnout of
students and faculty to hear the presentations,” Wajda
says.
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