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    <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 566px"> <tbody>   <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2009</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none">, <a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, </span> </span><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan </a>and Nimer Alrushiedat, <em>Developing the Social Portfolio</em>, (Accepted for publication in <em>On the Horizon</em>)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">.</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2008</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a> and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, <a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf"><em>Online Learning Communities in the New &quot;U&quot;</em></a>, (Accepted for publication in the IJNVO special issue Toward Virtual Universities</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">)[<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>].<br /></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr>  <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none">&nbsp;</td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a>, Mariana Soffer and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, &ldquo;<a href="thoms-IJCTE2008.pdf" target="_blank" title="IJICTE Paper">Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community</a>,&rdquo; <em>International Journal of Information Communication and Technology Education</em> (IJICTE), Issue #15 Vol. 4 No.3 Jul-Sep 2008 [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-IJICTE2008.pdf">pdf</a>].</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, Jesus Canelon Herrera and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/HICSS-2008.pdf" target="_blank">Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences</em> (HICSS 41) January 7-10, 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-hicss2008.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Paper) </span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2007</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &quot;Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community,&quot;<em>IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems</em> July 3-8, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IADIS-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (<a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/thomsb/files/119/557/IADIS+-+Best+Paper+Award.txt">Winner of Best Research Paper</a>)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"> and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf" title="DESRIST Paper">Extending the Elgg Social Networking System to Enhance the Campus Conversation</a>,&rdquo; Second Annual <em>Design Research in Information Systems</em> (DESRIST) May 14-15, 2007, Pasadena, California [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Research Paper)</span></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"><a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/millert/Trudi_Miller_CV.asp" title="Trudi">Trudi Miller</a>, <a href="http://www.cgu.edu/faculty/leroyg/" title="Gondy Leroy">Gondy Leroy</a>, <a href="http://wfs.cgu.edu/chatters/home/" title="Samir Chatterjee">Samir Chatterjee</a>, J. Fan, and </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/pdfs/Miller-HICSS-2007.pdf" target="_blank" title="HICSS 2007">A Classifier to Evaluate Language Specificity of Medical Documents</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences </em>(HICSS 40) January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Hawaii. [<a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/pdfs/Miller-HICSS-2007.pdf"><span style="color: #000000">pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000"> </span></a>]. (Winner of Best Paper)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2005</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &rdquo; <a href="http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf" title="My Thesis">Outsourcing: Inside Out and Outside In</a>,&rdquo; Stevens Master&rsquo;s Thesis, 2005, unpublished but available online at <a href="http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf" target="_blank" title="Masters Thesis"><span style="color: #000000">http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000"> </span></a>.</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent; border-width: medium; border-color: #c1ccd9; border-style: none"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="right" valign="top">posted by <a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Home">Brian Thoms</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> </span></p>
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            <pubDate>Sep 10, 2008 - 11:48am</pubDate>
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(2000) &quot;Lurker Demographics: Counting the Silent,&quot; presented at <em>ACM CHI<span>&nbsp; </span>Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems</em>, The Hague, pp. 73-80</p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>90.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Pope, NK (2005). &ldquo;The impact of stress in self- and peer assessment,&rdquo; <em>Assessment &amp; Evaluation in Higher Education</em>, Feb 2005, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p51-63. </p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>91.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Rafaeli, S., Ravid, G., Soroka, V. (2004). &quot;De-lurking in virtual communities: a social communication network approach to measuring the effects of social and cultural capital,&quot; <em>Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences</em>, 5-8 Jan. 2004 Page(s):10 pp. </p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>92.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Bhattacharjee R., Goel, A. (2005). &quot;Avoiding ballot stuffing in eBay-like reputation systems&quot;. P2PECON '05: Proceedings of the 2005 <em>ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Economics of peer-to-peer systems</em>, August 2005.</p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>93.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Rafiq, Y. and Fullerton, H. (1996). &ldquo;Peer assessment of group projects in civil engineering,&rdquo; <em>Assessment &amp; Evaluation in Higher Education</em>, March 1996, 21, 69&ndash;81.</p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>94.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Resnick, P., Richard Zeckhauser, R., Friedman, E. and Kuwabara, K. (2000). &ldquo;Reputation Systems: Facilitating Trust in Internet Interactions,&rdquo; <em>Communications of the ACM</em>, 2000. </p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>95.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Sabater, J., Sierra C. (2001). &quot;Social ReGreT, a reputation model based on social relations&quot;. <em>ACM SIGecom Exchanges</em>,<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Volume 3 Issue 1, December 2001.</p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>96.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Somervell, H. (1993). Issues in assessment, enterprise and higher education: the case for self-, peer and collaborative assessment, <em>Assessment &amp; Evaluation in Higher Education</em>, 18, 221&ndash;233.</p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>97.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Soroka, V. and Rafaeli, S. (2006). Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior. In <em>Proceedings of the 15th international Conference on World Wide Web</em> (Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23 - 26, 2006). WWW '06. ACM, New York, NY, 163-172. </p>  <p class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>98.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Takahashi, M., Fujimoto, M., and Yamasaki, N. (2002). &ldquo;The active lurker: a new viewpoint for evaluating the influence of an in-house online community.&rdquo; <em>SIGGROUP Bull.</em> 23, 3 (Dec. 2002), 29-33.</p>  <p style="text-align: left" class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpMiddle" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>99.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Yahoo! Reputation Design Patterns (2008). From the Yahoo Developer Network. Retrieved online on June 30, 2008 from: <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=reputation">http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=reputation</a>. </p>  <p style="text-align: left" class="Disseration-ReferencesCxSpLast" align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span><span>100.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Yahoo! Ratings Design Patterns (2008). From the Yahoo Developer Network. Retrieved online on June 30, 2008 from: <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=ratingsreviews">http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=ratingsreviews</a>.</p></p>
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    <p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="75%" style="border-collapse: collapse"> <tbody><tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2008</span></u></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font face="'Century Gothic'" style="font-size: 10pt">2008 Spring CGU Travel Award</font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><font face="'Century Gothic'" style="font-size: 10pt">Claremont Graduate University's student council provides financial awards to student activities that allow professional and academic growth in order to promote scholarship at CGU in both local and non-local arenas.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2007</span></u></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">SISAT Doctoral Screening Exam </font></font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"></font></font><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">Passed the 2007 SISAT doctoral screening exam with distinction [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/CGU/ScreeningExam-bt.jpg" title="Screening Exam Results">pdf</a>].  </font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent">&nbsp;</td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">IADIS Award for Best Research Paper </font></font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"></font></font></u></strong><font size="2">Winner of Best Research Paper at the <em>IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems</em> July 3-8, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal [<a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/thomsb/files/119/557/IADIS+-+Best+Paper+Award.txt">pdf</a>]</font><font size="2"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent">&nbsp;</td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">SISAT Student Council Summer Travel Award</font></font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"></font></font></u></strong><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">In 2007 the School of Information Systems and Technology (SISAT) awarded four students with travel awards. The awards aimed to provide these students with financial assistance as they continue work on research and/or present their research at academic conferences around the world [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/CGU/SISAT%20Travel%20Awards.pdf" title="SISAT Travel Award">pdf</a>].</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"> </font></font></u></strong><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">Hillcrest Award</font></font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"> </font></font></u></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Hillcrest Transdisciplinary Student Research Fund to support transdisciplinary research on &ldquo;Advising and Mentoring Graduate Students.&rdquo;</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2006</span></u></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">PFF Fellowship (2006-2007) </font></font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"> </font></font></u></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">The Claremont Graduate University Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program has four major goals: prepare students to be outstanding researchers of the 21st Century, prepare students to teach and advise at a variety of institutions, prepare students to perform service at the departmental and university level, and prepare students for the academic job market. PFF Fellows participate in a year-long Learning Community.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic">Kozmetsky Award </font></font></u></strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><u><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"> </font></font></u></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Kozmetsky Award for transdisciplinary research.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <strong><em><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></u></em></strong></font></font><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"></font></font><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="right" valign="top">posted by <a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms">Brian Thoms</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> </span></p>
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    <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 566px"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2008</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a> and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, <a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf"><em>Online Learning Communities in the New &quot;U&quot;</em></a>, (Accepted for publication in the IJNVO special issue Toward Virtual Universities</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">)[<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>].<br /></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent">&nbsp;</td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a>, Mariana Soffer and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, &ldquo;<a href="thoms-IJCTE2008.pdf" target="_blank" title="IJICTE Paper">Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community</a>,&rdquo; <em>International Journal of Information Communication and Technology Education</em> (IJICTE), Issue #15 Vol. 4 No.3 Jul-Sep 2008 [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-IJICTE2008.pdf">pdf</a>].</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, Jesus Canelon Herrera and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/HICSS-2008.pdf" target="_blank">Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences</em> (HICSS 41) January 7-10, 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-hicss2008.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Paper) </span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2007</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &quot;Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community,&quot;<em>IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems</em> July 3-8, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IADIS-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (<a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/thomsb/files/119/557/IADIS+-+Best+Paper+Award.txt">Winner of Best Research Paper</a>)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"> and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf" title="DESRIST Paper">Extending the Elgg Social Networking System to Enhance the Campus Conversation</a>,&rdquo; Second Annual <em>Design Research in Information Systems</em> (DESRIST) May 14-15, 2007, Pasadena, California [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Research Paper)</span></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"><a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/millert/Trudi_Miller_CV.asp" title="Trudi">Trudi Miller</a>, <a href="http://www.cgu.edu/faculty/leroyg/" title="Gondy Leroy">Gondy Leroy</a>, <a href="http://wfs.cgu.edu/chatters/home/" title="Samir Chatterjee">Samir Chatterjee</a>, J. Fan, and </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/pdfs/Miller-HICSS-2007.pdf" target="_blank" title="HICSS 2007">A Classifier to Evaluate Language Specificity of Medical Documents</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences </em>(HICSS 40) January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Hawaii. [<a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/pdfs/Miller-HICSS-2007.pdf"><span style="color: #000000">pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000"> </span></a>]. (Winner of Best Paper)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2005</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &rdquo; <a href="http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf" title="My Thesis">Outsourcing: Inside Out and Outside In</a>,&rdquo; Stevens Master&rsquo;s Thesis, 2005, unpublished but available online at <a href="http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf" target="_blank" title="Masters Thesis"><span style="color: #000000">http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000"> </span></a>.</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="right" valign="top">posted by <a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Home">Brian Thoms</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> </span></p>
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            <description><![CDATA[<p>Hi Brian,</p><p>I can't seem to open your dissertation proposal file.&nbsp; Guess I am still using the old version of Office.&nbsp; </p>]]></description>
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    <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 566px"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2008</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a> and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, <a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf"><em>Online Learning Communities in the New &quot;U&quot;</em></a>, (Accepted for publication in the IJNVO special issue Toward Virtual Universities</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">)[<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>]. (<a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/thomsb/files/118/1604/IJNVO-+Letter+of+Acceptance.txt">acceptance letter</a>)<br /></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent">&nbsp;</td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a>, Mariana Soffer and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, &ldquo;<a href="thoms-IJCTE2008.pdf" target="_blank" title="IJICTE Paper">Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community</a>,&rdquo; <em>International Journal of Information Communication and Technology Education</em> (IJICTE), Issue #15 Vol. 4 No.3 Jul-Sep 2008 [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-IJICTE2008.pdf">pdf</a>].</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, Jesus Canelon Herrera and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/HICSS-2008.pdf" target="_blank">Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences</em> (HICSS 41) January 7-10, 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-hicss2008.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Paper) </span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2007</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &quot;Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community,&quot;<em>IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems</em> July 3-8, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IADIS-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (<a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/thomsb/files/119/557/IADIS+-+Best+Paper+Award.txt">Winner of Best Research Paper</a>)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"> and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf" title="DESRIST Paper">Extending the Elgg Social Networking System to Enhance the Campus Conversation</a>,&rdquo; Second Annual <em>Design Research in Information Systems</em> (DESRIST) May 14-15, 2007, Pasadena, California [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Research Paper)</span></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"><a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/millert/Trudi_Miller_CV.asp" title="Trudi">Trudi Miller</a>, <a href="http://www.cgu.edu/faculty/leroyg/" title="Gondy Leroy">Gondy Leroy</a>, <a href="http://wfs.cgu.edu/chatters/home/" title="Samir Chatterjee">Samir Chatterjee</a>, J. Fan, and </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/pdfs/Miller-HICSS-2007.pdf" target="_blank" title="HICSS 2007">A Classifier to Evaluate Language Specificity of Medical Documents</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences </em>(HICSS 40) January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Hawaii. [<a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/pdfs/Miller-HICSS-2007.pdf"><span style="color: #000000">pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000"> </span></a>]. (Winner of Best Paper)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2005</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &rdquo; <a href="http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf" title="My Thesis">Outsourcing: Inside Out and Outside In</a>,&rdquo; Stevens Master&rsquo;s Thesis, 2005, unpublished but available online at <a href="http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf" target="_blank" title="Masters Thesis"><span style="color: #000000">http://radicalzero.com/stevens/thesis.pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000"> </span></a>.</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> <td width="536" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="right" valign="top">posted by <a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Home">Brian Thoms</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> </span></p>
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    <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 566px"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2008</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a> and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, <a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf"><em>Online Learning Communities in the New &quot;U&quot;</em></a>, (Accepted for publication in the IJNVO special issue Toward Virtual Universities</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">)[<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IJNVO-2008.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>].</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">, <a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a>, Mariana Soffer and <a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a>, &ldquo;<a href="thoms-IJCTE2008.pdf" target="_blank" title="IJICTE Paper">Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community</a>,&rdquo; <em>International Journal of Information Communication and Technology Education</em> (IJICTE), Issue #15 Vol. 4 No.3 Jul-Sep 2008 [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-IJICTE2008.pdf">pdf</a>].</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, Jesus Canelon Herrera and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/HICSS-2008.pdf" target="_blank">Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities</a>,&rdquo; In <em>Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences</em> (HICSS 41) January 7-10, 2008, Waikoloa, Hawaii [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/thoms-hicss2008.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Paper) </span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">2007</span></span></em></strong></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn"></a><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &quot;Resurrecting Graduate Conversation through an Online Learning Community,&quot;<em>IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems</em> July 3-8, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/IADIS-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (<a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/thomsb/files/119/557/IADIS+-+Best+Paper+Award.txt">Winner of Best Research Paper</a>)</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://conversation.cgu.edu/garrettn" title="Nathan Garrett">Nathan Garrett</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><a href="http://brianthoms.com" title="Brian Thoms"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Brian Thoms</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Mariana Soffer</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"> and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://administration.cgu.edu/fac/ryant/" title="Terry Ryan">Terry Ryan</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000">, &ldquo;<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf" title="DESRIST Paper">Extending the Elgg Social Networking System to Enhance the Campus Conversation</a>,&rdquo; Second Annual <em>Design Research in Information Systems</em> (DESRIST) May 14-15, 2007, Pasadena, California [<a href="http://brianthoms.com/articles/DESRIST-2007.pdf">pdf</a>]. (Nominated Best Research Paper)</span></span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="color: #555555"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="54" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.8pt; background-color: transparent"><span style="font-size: small"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></span></td> <td width="536" valign="top" style="border: medium none #c1ccd9; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 402pt; background-color: transparent"> <ul> 	<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; color: #000000"><a href="http://isl.cgu.edu/millert/Trudi_Miller_CV.asp" title="Trudi">Trudi Miller</a>, <a href="http://www.cgu.edu/faculty/leroyg/" title="Gondy Leroy">Gondy Leroy</a>, <a href="http://wfs.cgu.edu/chatters/home/" title="Samir Chatterjee">Samir Chatterjee