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An article that Deb Drecnik Worden (Business) coauthored with Diane Schooley-Pettis, professor of finance at Boise State University, was recently published in the Financial Services Review (Vol. 22), the journal of the Academy of Financial Services. The article, titled “Accumulating and Spending Retirement Assets: A Behaviorial Finance Explanation,†stems from their research, which examines which individuals choose to participate in pension plans or set aside additional retirement funds in IRAs. A recent report from The Investment Company Institute reported that 33 percent of Americans have neither an IRA nor an employer retirement plan.
Gary Buhler (Art) is the featured artist in the current issue of Triggerfish Critical Review (#12), an online journal. In addition, his watercolor, “Morrison Steel,†was accepted into the Emerald Spring Juried Show in Springfield, Ore., a national exhibition that will be on display in the Emerald Art Center for the month of May starting May 3.
Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “Escaped Poems†in the April 2014 issue of Contemporary Haibun Online. The piece also includes commentary/analysis from one of the editors, Ray Rasmussen, who is highly regarded in haiku/haibun circles. Included also are links to some of his other pieces and the republication of two of Ed’s haibun pieces from other journals. In addition, Ed’s poem “Wasps†appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of the Irish literary/arts journal The Linnet’s Wings.
Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) has been appointed Professor Extraordinary of Religion at the North-West University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, as a means of bringing credibility to the university and helping faculty and students conduct and publish their research from afar. Paul will also be a Fulbright Specialist Visiting Professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in Netherlands this May. Finally, as founding coeditor of the Johannine Monograph Series (Wipf & Stock), Paul recently wrote the foreword to Volume 1 in the series, A Commentary on John, by Rudolf Bultmann, arguably the most significant New Testament book in the 20th century.
John Knox (Christian Studies) published an article, “Future Emphasis of the Church in the Pacific Northwest,†this month in Christ and Cascadia, an online journal sponsored by the Fuller Institute of Theology and Northwest Culture.