Community of Scholars
Faculty, Staff and Students Making News
APUS has been admitted to the Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society, the scholastic fraternity for students pursuing degrees in management.
AMU Transportation & Logistics Management Student Dennis White received the General Hurley Scholarship in the amount of $4,000 from the National Defense Transportation Association's DC chapter.
Online Librarian Susan Fingerman participated in a panel discussion about her experience as a hiring manager for special libraries sponsored by the Maryland Chapter of the Special Libraries Association on April 21 in Rockville, MD.
Vice President of Community College Relations & Outreach John Hough presented “Baccalaureate Access and Completion: The Distance Learning Model,” at the American Association of Community Colleges Conference on April 22 in Orlando, FL.
Public Service and Health Instructor John Hein presented his latest manuscript “Internal Affairs in the 21st Century: The Political Process and Investigative Function,” at the Association of Former Customs Special Agents Conference in Nashville, TN.
Security and Global Studies Instructor Joseph DiRenzo will present “A Deployed Game Theoretic System to Protect the Ports of the United States,” at the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Spain on June 4. Joseph co-authored the paper and is in the running for “Best in Show”.
Adjunct Faculty for Education Elisabeth Murfield successfully defended her dissertation "The Use of Teacher-Created Common Assessments and Student Achievement in Mathematics,” and received her PhD on April 10. Elisabeth now holds a PhD in Education, with a specialization in Curriculum and Instruction.
Manager of Student Appeals Kimberly Crotty will publish "Telephone," "The Watcher," and "Crossroads,” for the Trillium Literary Journal. The issue will be released in May.