I began teaching at MSUM in 2005, after earning a Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology from N...

I began teaching at MSUM in 2005, after earning a Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology from North Dakota State University. My primary areas of teaching are Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Statistics, and Research Methods. My research interests include sociocultural influences on self-esteem and various health attitudes and behaviors.

Professor, Ph.D., M.S.W.; Chair, School of Social Work; Areas of expertise: Theory and res...

Professor, Ph.D., M.S.W.; Chair, School of Social Work; Areas of expertise: Theory and research, human behavior and biopsychosocial development over the life course, social work research methods, health care, social welfare policy, policy analysis, grant writing, practice outcome assessment, program evaluation, and technical writing in social work.

Ted Gracyk, Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. His ar...

Ted Gracyk, Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. His areas of interest: philosophy of art, Kant, 18th-century philosophy, cultural theory. Published books: On Music, Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock, and I WANNA BE ME: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity, among others.

Sue Humphers-Ginther (Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, San Francisco) is Profess...

Sue Humphers-Ginther (Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, San Francisco) is Professor of Sociology, Coordinator of the Gerontology Program, and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Her teaching interests are in the sociology of aging, health/aging politics and policy, medical sociology, research methods and statistics, and grant writing. Her doctoral education was funded by a five-year National Institute on Aging pre-doctoral fellowship in Sociocultural Gerontology at the University of California, San Francisco. She received a Teaching Award from UCSF’s Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, two Research Awards from the Institute for Health and Aging, and an Outstanding Advisor Award from MSUM. She was a Governor’s appointee to the Minnesota Board on Aging from 2005 – 2014. From 2015 – 2017, she was a member of the Editorial Board and co-Managing Editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Gerontological Society since 2006, served as co-President of MGS from 2013 – 2015, and is currently co-Chair of the Gerontology Educators Network.

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Business Administration: Marketing, Temple University, USA MBA, Market...

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Business Administration: Marketing, Temple University, USA MBA, Marketing Emphasis, Pepperdine University, USA MSc, Marketing, Strategy and International Business, Konkuk University, Korea AWARDS & HONORS (Selected): • Employee Excellence Award in Research & Creative Activity, MSUM (2019) • Student Organization Advisor of the Year Award with Beta Gamma Sigma, MSUM (2019) • Best Paper Award by Tourism Sciences Society of Korea, The Korea-America Hospitality & Tourism Educators Association (2019) • Junior Faculty Scholarship Award, The Midwest Academy of Management (2018) • Best Conference Paper Award, The Korea-America Hospitality & Tourism Educators Association (2018) • Advisory Board in Professional Science Master Program, KMAC (2016-2018) • Best Paper Award in Sports Marketing Track, The Atlantic Marketing Association (2017) • Google i-10 High Citation-Impact Award, The Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science (2016) TEACHING COURSES: [Undergraduates] MKTG 270 Principles of Marketing MKTG 421 Consumer Behavior MKTG 451 Marketing Research I: Theory and Statistics in Marketing MKTG 452 Marketing Research II: Actual Marketing Project and Consulting [Graduates] MBA 611 Marketing Management MBA 615 International Marketing MBA 695 Portfolio - MBA Thesis BIO: Dr. Wooyang Kim’s experience is characterized as a business savoir-faire, encompassing a diverse set of experience in both industry and academic fields globally. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honor society for business school worldwide, as well as of academic communities in marketing-related fields. As a practitioner, he has worked for companies as an analyst, consultant, instructor, and researcher. The companies have included Samsung, LG, and among other global companies as well as small & medium companies in both Korea and the USA. His main duties have included market & marketing analysis, behavioral analytics, brand & new product development, and employee education. As a scholar, his foci on research are consumer perception and decision process in the naturalistic given information underlying an ecological perspective (e.g., foraging behavior and heuristics), which represent an infusion of the Darwinian framework in behavioral ecology into marketing fields. Dr. Kim’s research interests cover three topic areas including consumer information foraging, consumer innovativeness and innovation diffusion, and healthcare service consumption, associated with cross-cultural socioeconomics and sociodemographics. His scholarly works have been awarded academic achievements and are found in academic journals, books, and conference proceedings, etc. He has served as an editorial board member and reviewer at the reputed journals and a member of the organizing committee at the academic conferences. His expertise encompasses the following areas: behavioral theories and analytics, consumer decision process, cultural marketing, healthcare marketing, and marketing research and strategy. At PSB in MSUM, Dr. Kim has been working with students. With his students, he made several academic publications at the conferences as well as completed the local business projects.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, holding licensure in both Minnesota and Wisconsin....

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, holding licensure in both Minnesota and Wisconsin. My mental health experience is in a variety of areas, including the public school setting, the college setting, community outreach, and the outpatient setting. At the University of Minnesota-Duluth, I earned my MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in both community and K-12 counseling. I earned my Ph.D. at Capella University in Psychology with an emphasis in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. This is my fifth year at MSUM. You can find me teaching General Psychology, and the vast array of human development courses: Lifespan Development, Child and Adolescent, Adulthood and Aging, and Development Across Cultures. I also teach the Psychology of Women and Psychology of Food and Eating. I also have experience teaching Health Psychology, Personality Psychology, Career and Lifespan Exploration, Psychology of Adjustment, and Abnormal Psychology courses. My research interests are mindless eating and attitudes towards food and weight, and adaption to the workplace/education setting. My goal as an assistant professor is to make the courses I teach relevant to everyday life, create opportunities for personal growth and self-awareness, and help students make connections to the MSUM and greater F-M community. I am the advisor for the MSUM Psychology Club and Psi Chi. I am a certified Safe Zone resource. My Fall semester office hours are: Monday & Wednesday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM & 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM (virtual) Tuesday & Thursday 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM (on campus but virtual preferred) Fridays by appointment

Ralf holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University, a Bachelor of Arts in Marketi...

Ralf holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University, a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and International Business from Carthage College and a degree as "Bankkaufmann" in his native Germany. He currently teaches The Legal Environment of Business (ACCT 280), Contracts and Business Entities (ACCT 306), Commercial Transactions and Special Topics (ACCT 407/507), Start Your Own Business (ENTR/MGMT 229), Personal Finance (FINC 345) and First Year Experience (FYE 101) online and in traditional settings at the Paseka School. He has also taught classes in business ethics, government regulation and law in international business. He is a faculty advisor for MSUM’s Collegiate DECA chapter and offers faculty-led student experiences to Germany. Ralf has significant business experience in developing domestic and international business in the ERP, Cloud and healthcare industries. He is a licensed attorney and has worked in global executive and management positions with SNP Americas, Velocity Technology Solutions, Intelligent InSites, SAP Societas Europaea and Great Plains Software in the United States and Germany. He is a hobby blacksmith and avid traveler and likes to read and write. His most recent publications, "When in Rome (or Manila)…" and "The Chairman’s Jokes", discuss business, legal, HR and ethical issues in the international environment. Ralf’s teaching philosophy is: “Keep it simple, keep it real and make it relevant for the students”.

Education: Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Ph.D. in Finance 2001 Tul...

Education: Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Ph.D. in Finance 2001 Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business, M.A. in Economics 2001 Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), Caracas - Venezuela. MBA 1993 Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Caracas - Venezuela. Industrial Engineering 1990 Bio: Eduardo Pablo is Professor of Finance at the Paseka School of Business, Minnesota State University Moorhead. He has a vast experience analyzing emerging markets and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in finance. Before moving to United States, he worked at EGADE – ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico (2003 – 2005) and at IESA in Caracas, Venezuela (2001 – 2003 and 2005 – 2010). Before becoming a professor at MSUM, Eduardo worked as a Clinical Professor at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. During summer time, he collaborates with other U.S. and Latin American universities teaching and doing research abroad. His main research interests are related to (1) corporate governance, (2) dividend policy, and (3) the analysis of mergers and acquisitions and other ways to organize the economic activity. Three of his most recent research papers are in the area of dividends (Gonzalez, M., Molina, C.A., Pablo, E., and Rosso, J, The Effect of Ownership Concentration and Composition on Dividends: Evidence from Latin America. Emerging Markets Review (Elsevier), Volume 30, March 2017 pp. 1 – 18.), corporate productivity (Gaitán, S., Herrera-Echeverri, H., and Pablo E., How corporate governance affects productivity in civil-law business environments: Evidence from Latin America. Global Finance Journal (Elsevier), Volume 37, August 2018, Pages 173-185) and gender diversity (González, M., Guzmán, A., Pablo, E., and Trujillo, M.A., Does gender really matter in the boardroom? Evidence from closely held family firms. Review of Managerial Science (Springer Berlin Heidelberg). July 2018. pp 1 – 47.) At the Paseka School of Business, Eduardo currently teaches the following graduate and undergraduate courses, FINC441 Advanced Corporate Finance FINC445/545 International Finance FINC446.546 Financial Decision Making FINC450/550 Entrepreneurial Finance MBA631 Financial Management BUS642 Corporate Finance

Research Interests: Mechanisms of brain development, genetic regulation of area developmen...

Research Interests: Mechanisms of brain development, genetic regulation of area development in mammalian brains (utilizing the mouse model system), behavioral repercussions due to alterations in brain development Teaching Assignments: Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Human Physiology, Neurobiology, Histology Techniques, Research in Biology

Co-Chair, Accounting Education: PhD in Accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and ...

Co-Chair, Accounting Education: PhD in Accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University MS in Accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University BS in Accounting, University of Tulsa Teaching: Graduate Level Financial and Managerial Accounting Advanced Accounting (Consolidations) Intermediate Accounting Cost Accounting Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting Research: Dr. Stone’s research interests include accounting pedagogical studies, corporate crisis communication, as well as ethical decision making. Her research has been published in several academic journals, including Issues in Accounting Education, Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Journal of Business and Accounting, and Academy of Strategic Management Journal. Dr. Stone is active in professional organizations, serving as treasurer of the Red River Valley chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. As a professor, Dr. Stone wants to not only teach her students accounting skills, but also foster a desire for learning, a commitment to excellence, a respect for teammates, and responsibility for serving others.

Lee Garth Vigilant (Ph.D. Boston College 2001) is professor of sociology at Minnesota Stat...

Lee Garth Vigilant (Ph.D. Boston College 2001) is professor of sociology at Minnesota State University Moorhead. His principal areas of teaching are contemporary sociological theory, qualitative methods for social research, social movements, and social problems. He is a past recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for Sociology at Boston College, the TCU Senate Professor of the Year Award for Tufts University, and the Excellence in Teaching Award at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Some of his peer-reviewed research are in the journals Sociological Spectrum, Humanity and Society, and Deviant Behavior. He is author of several sociological essays, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters. He is co-author with Dr. Joel Charon of the books The Meaning of Sociology (Sloan Publishing, 2016) and Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions, 4/E (CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning 2012). Dr. Vigilant is an Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Death and Human Experience (Los Angeles CA: Sage Publications, Inc. 2009).