Faculty

Dr. Julie Grady co-authored with chemistry faculty at Virginia Tech and Blacksburg High School, Virginia, the Journal of Chemical Education article “Chemistry Outreach Project to High Schools Using a Mobile Chemistry Laboratory, ChemKits, and Teacher Workshops.”

Dr. Amany Saleh, professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the Center for Excellence in Education, has published the first volume of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education. Established in 2012, this is a new print and online, peer-reviewed publication housed at the Center for Excellence in Education. Among the topics that the Journal focuses on are: educational leadership, culture of the academy, intercultural communication, international relations, student involvement, globalization of teaching, learning and research, multiculturalism, diversity and individualism.
The recent volume includes contributions for several universities including Bethel University, Southern Oklahoma State University, Walden University, College of William and Mary, Troy University, and the University of Wyoming. The peer review board includes professors and doctoral students from the United States, China, Cyprus, Pakistan, and Canada. Krishna Bista, doctoral student at the Center for Excellent serves as an associate editor. Kerry Bennett and Brandy Humphrey, both instructors of English at Arkansas State University, and Dr. Ghanashyam Sharma, assistant professor of English at Stony Brook University served as developmental editors for the recent volumes. For more information and access to digital copy, visit: http://isejournal.org/

Dr. Amy Pearce, Psychology and Counseling, along with student contributors S. Haldser and J Lynch has Sex differences in voluntary consumption are overridden by simultaneous presentation of two oral nicotine solutions (in press) in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

Student

Krishna Bista, doctoral student in Educational Leadership program at Arkansas State University, and colleagues published the fifth volume (Spring 2013) of the Journal of International Students, a print and online peer-reviewed publication. The journal publishes narrative, theoretical and empirically-based research articles, student reflections and book reviews relevant to international students and their cross-cultural experiences and understanding. The spring 2013 volume published fifteen articles under the guest editorship of Dr. Susan C. Pearce, professor of sociology at East Carolina University (USA), and Dr. Erlenawati Sawir, Research Fellow at the International Education Research Center, Central Queensland University (Australia). The volume contributors were from University of West Georgia, Suffolk University, Purdue University, University of California at Los Angles, Rice University, Troy University, St. Cloud State University, Fairmont State University, University of Washington at Bothell, Chinese American Association of Cincinnati and Munich University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Bista serves as an editor-in-chief of the journal. The journal was started as a part of his research project in international education and student mobility in 2010. As a peer-reviewed publication, currently the journal and editorial office is housed at the Center for Excellence in Education. The journal is a non-profit publication and has been operated through the voluntary services of editors, copy editors, reviewers and guest editors. For more information and online access, visit: http://jistudents.org/

Bista, K. (2013). Internationalization in higher education: Needs and resources for international
students. NAFSA Review of Global Studies Literature, 4, 1-4.

Bista, K. (2013). Upton Sinclair. In S. Lawrence & G. J. Geoffrey, Encyclopedia of White-collar
and corporate crime (2nd Ed.). Thousands Oka, CA: Sage Publications.

Bista, K., & Jones, D. (2013). Black men in college [Review of the book Black men in college:
Implications for HBCUs and beyond, edited by R. T. Palmer & J. L. Wood]. Student Affairs Journal, 32(2).