Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper examines the opportunities of combining teaching, research, and service and highlights the inherent challenges of such an approach. By offering evidence on how professors at small liberal arts colleges can combine their research, teaching, and service responsibilities in ways that enrich student learning, this paper fills a role in helping to improve undergraduate education and engaging the outside community with the college. It is common to overstate both the opportunities for, and limits of combining teaching, research, and service. A common misperception of those considering teaching at small liberal arts colleges is that they need to sacrifice their research agendas to meet teaching and service expectations. Successful strategies exist to meaningfully combine faculty research, teaching and service while promoting liberal arts education. However, the applicability of these approaches are structurally dependent. Methodologically qualitative, personal experience, and surveys are supplemented with interviews of students, faculty, college administrators, and city officials.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Combining framing theory and studies on triangle relationship in international politics research,
this research seeks to explore media’s healthier role in reporting international dialogues in the
shifting triangle relationship. By clarifying a misconception in extant research that biases are
unavoidable in framing, the article suggests that news framing can be both objective and advocacy
towards an event. A summary of previous works on triangle relationship interprets how dialogues
can happen in the changing international environment, which provides the basis for definition of
“objective” and “advocacy” reporting of international dialogue. A comparison of BBC Online’s
news reports and audiences’ comments on Tony Blair’s visit to Libya is conducted within this
research frame. It is found out that audiences are capable to establish a more objective and
advocacy frame than the media. On the macro level, while BBC Online draws diverse key words
into reports, the frame is inherently biased and misleading for many key words revolve around the
same theme. However, from the micro perspective, the narrative style is open and relatively
objective, inviting the audience to interpret the issue independently without being much influenced
by media biases. Suggestions are offered for media to play a healthier role in international dialogue
in the shifting triangle relationship.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The United States is entangled in a variety of strategic relationships, some triangular, some not. Our assessment of the import of the triangular relationships among the United States, the European Union, and Russia revisits and builds upon the earlier work of Posen and Ross. They identified four contending grand strategy visions: neo-isolationism, selective engagement, cooperative security (which we re-label "liberal internationalism?), and primacy. We add "empire" to the original menu of choices. For each alternative we summarize the political-military (or security) and economic components of the strategic vision and assess, in notional terms, the significance of the U.S.-EU-Russia strategic triangle. The importance of this triangle varies considerably across the alternative visions of America's role in the world. With the election and re-election of President George W. Bush the strategic partnership envisioned by some at the beginning of the post-Cold War era may devolve into a more permanent strategic triangle characterized by competition, conflict and even balancing on the part of Europe and Russia. The primacist tactics and imperial pretensions of the current administration are surely tempting friends and allies to rethink their own position in the U.S. led world order.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this talk we present a less well known but explicit formula for Bernoulli polynomials expressed as determinants of square matrices constructed from Pascal’s triangle. We demonstrate how this formula extends to hypergeometric Bernoulli polynomials, a class of polynomials generated from the confluent hypergeometric series and containing the classical Bernoulli polynomials as a special case.