Off-Campus Events

  • World Usability Day 2009
    Thursday, November 12, 2009
    9:00-5:00, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, East Lansing

    This year's theme is Designing for Sustainable Communities, and the event will feature a special session on accessibility in the global knowledge economy, talks from the Ford Motor Company and Oakland County eGovernment, an Assistive Technology Expo, a workshop on WCAG 2.0, and more!

  • International Humanitarian City
    On Tuesday October 13th 2009, students enrolled in the ISS 315 Global Diversity & Interdependence Course and select faculty and staff were granted an opportunity to not only become more aware and knowledgeable about the humanitarian plight around the world, but also to become empowered with a plan of action in the global attempt to combat extreme poverty, one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.

  • First Europe-Middle East-North Africa Regional ITS Conerence
    Drs. Johannes Bauer and Constantinos Coursaris, Media Management professors, were invited to give a talk at the First Europe-Middle East-North Africa Regional ITS Conerence in the Kingdom of Bahrain on October 26. Their presentation explores 'Process and Product Innovation in Advanced Communications'

  • Media Management professor, Dr. Constantinos Coursaris received the 2009 Innovative Course Award by the International Telecommunications Education and Research Association at the annual ITERA conference in Atlanta (18 April 18 2009).

  • Professor Mark Anstey will give an address at the Getex HRD and Training Forum on 16th April 2009 on the topic ‘Strategic Human Resources Management and Development’

  • Professor Constantinos Coursaris presented a paper entitled Technology-Supported Differentiated Learning in Study Abroad Programs at the 2009 Global Education Forum (11 March 2009).

  • Professor Mark Anstey facilitated the University of Botswana’s senior management team through a strategic planning process in Botswana (9-10 March 2009).

  • Professor Mark Anstey gave a paper on at the Warsaw Negotiation Day entitled Labor Movements and Negotiations in Transition (11th December 2008) (Papers being published by Institute for International Relations, Warsaw University)

  • Professor Mark Anstey was part of a team facilitating second track dialogue between the five littoral states to the Caspian Sea around common concerns: fishing, poaching, environment, oil resources and pollution (3-4 October 2008).

  • Professor Constantinos Coursaris' co-authored study 'An Examination of Candidate Web sites as a Political Campaigning Tool in the 2007 Greek National Elections' was presented at the British Academy of Management (9 September 2008).

  • Professor Constantinos Coursaris was an invited Visiting Fellow at the School of Business, Newcastle University (June 2008).

  • Professor Mark Anstey published several short articles in IIASA publications: Labor Movements in Societies in Transition Pinpoints 31/2008:13-15 Transforming Africa’s Conflicts into Nation-building Projects Options Summer 2008:20-21.

  • Professor Constantinos Coursaris published a co-authored study entitled 'An Empirical Investigation of Color Temperature and Gender Effects on Web Aesthetics' in Journal of Usability Studies, the flagship journal of the Usability Professionals' Association (May 2009).

  • Professor Mark Anstey trained senior commissioners of South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in ‘Building Workplace Relations’ skills (April 2008).

  • Professor Constantinos Coursaris' co-authored paper on 'Mobile Content Services: A Case of the Oakland County eGovernment' was presented at the International Telecommunication Education and Research Association Conference (ITERA) (27-29 March 2008).

  • Professor Mark Anstey gave papers on Negotiating Out of Conflict: External Interventions in Africa in a conference hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (March 2008), and at a conference on the same topic organized by the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna (June 2008). He is a member of an editorial team currently working on a book on the topic of external interventions to avoid mass violence in identity conflicts.

  • Professor Constantinos Coursaris published a co-authored study entitled 'Mobile Technology and the Value Chain: Participants, Activities, and Value Creation' in the International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management (IJBSAM). This study is currently the 10th most downloaded paper of the journal (IJBSAM, March 2009).

  • Professor Mark Anstey trained public service managers and trade union leaders in Botswana in labor relations and negotiation skills (February 2008)