Resilience of Citizen Engagement to Local Disasters Project – The Metropolitan Institute

Maggie Cowell (Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, School of Public and International Affairs) and I have received a seed grant ($20,000) from the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) at Virginia Tech for our project “Resilience of Citizen Engagement to Local Disasters: Studying the Emergence and Dissolution of Community Networks.” This project will […]

Organizational Interventions of Knowledge Management Systems & Design Science Perspective

I have a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. The paper is titled, “Contextualizing Organizational Interventions of Knowledge Management Systems: A Design Science Perspective,” and is co-authored with Peter Baloh (BISOL and IEDC Bled School of Management) and Raymond A. Hackney (Brunel University). This paper is based on […]

The First 60 Days of being Director of the Metropolitan Institute

Time flies when you are having fun. I have been having a lot of fun in my new role at the Director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. For those interested, you can read my update on the first 60 days. I plan to post regular updates (stay tuned for the next one, it […]

Desouza Family Scholarship – Brilliant Futures Campaign – UIC

Otilia Flandro is the first recipient of the Desouza Family Scholarship. Otilia is currently completing her degree in marketing at the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is interested in international marketing of Romanian wines.