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Bryant proudly announces eight newly tenured faculty appointments Tenure appointments were in the departments of Computer Information Systems, English and Cultural Studies, Finance, History and Social Sciences, Management, and Science and Technology. Dr. Asli Ascioglu Ascioglu received her Ph.D. in finance from the University of Memphis in 2000. She holds her M.S. in Finance from Texas Tech University and a B.S. in management from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Her academic emphasis is on market microstructure, corporate finance, and international markets. She is a member of the Financial Management Association and received the Nasdaq Dissertation Fellowship in 1999. Ascioglu served as the C.V. Starr Financial Markets Center coordinator in 2003 when the facility was completed. She was instrumental in the integration of the facility into the finance curriculum. Dr. Brian Blais Blais received a Ph.D. in physics from Brown University in 1998 and holds a Sc.M. in physics from the Universitat Heidelberg. He received a B.A. with honors in physics from Wesleyan University in 1992. Blais teaches courses in introductory physics, astronomy, meteorology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics. His research focus is on how the brain works, exploring computational and mathematical models of small numbers of brain cells. He has also created laboratory manuals on experimental science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. In 2005, he received an award for exemplary faculty service and is an active member of the curriculum committee. Dr. Ranjan Karri Karri earned his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 2001, and holds MBAs from Cleveland State University and the Institute of Rural Management. He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Osmania University. Prior to joining Bryant, he worked as an executive of business development for the largest management consulting organization for rural enterprises in India. Karri teaches a capstone course on strategic management and management of innovation and technology. His research interests lie in the intersection of strategy, business ethics, and entrepreneurship. He received a merit award for teaching in 2002. He currently serves on the editorial board of Group and Organization Management journal. Dr. Paul Lokken Lokken received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Florida in 2000. He holds a masters in history and a B.A. with honors in history from the University of Saskatchewan. His teaching focuses on Latin American history, introductory U.S. history, and historical methods, and has served as coordinator of the Latin American and Latina/Latino Studies Minor since 2002. His current research focuses on West Central Africans and issues of migration, demography, and identity in colonial Central America. Recent publications have examined militiamen of color, slave marriage, and maroons in colonial Guatemala and El Salvador. Lokken received a faculty merit award in 2002 and 2004. Dr. Janet Prichard Prichard received her Ph.D. in computer science in 1995 from the University of Rhode Island, where she also received her M.S. in computer science. She has her B.A. in mathematics from Providence College. Her academic interests are in real-time databases, database query languages, object-oriented analysis and design methodologies, database standards, client models, and Internet security. Her instruction focuses on Web design and development, object-oriented computing, operating systems, and data structures. Prichard is a member of the X3H2 Technical Committee on Database Standardization. She received a 1998 Microsoft Instructional Development Grant. Dr. Michael A. Roberto Roberto received an A.B. with honors from Harvard College in 1991, and an M.B.A. with High Distinction from Harvard Business School in 1995, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He also received his D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 2000. While teaching in the General Management unit at the Harvard Business School, he twice won the Allyn Young Prize for Teaching in Economics. Roberto has also taught in the leadership development programs at Morgan Stanley, The Home Depot, Mars, Novartis, The World Bank, and Thales, and has consulted with organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Corporate Executive Board, and The Advisory Board. Dr. Christopher Roethlein Roethlein received a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2000. He holds an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Western New England College. His teaching focuses on aspects of operations management, production and inventory management, and high performance manufacturing. In 2003, he served as chair of the Faculty Development committee, received a Bryant merit award, and was elected to the Xi Psi Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi. He currently acts as the advisor to Boundless Playgrounds, a student-faculty fundraising and planning collaboration to build a playground that welcomes children of all physical and intellectual abilities. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Examiners for the Rhode Island Annual Quality Award. Dr. Elizabeth Walden Walden received her Ph.D. in comparative literature in 1999 from the University of Minnesota. She holds a masters in philosophy from the University of Virginia and received her B.A. in philosophy from Hamline University. Walden's teaching focuses on the philosophy of art, ethics, cultural studies, film and video, visual culture, humanities, and philosophy. She is currently developing a book proposal that joins recent debates in film theory and philosophy regarding the relationship between media arts and subjectivity. She helped secure curriculum development grants including the Davis Technology Grant in 2001 and instructional grants in 2002 and 2005. Bryant gave her a merit award in 2002 and 2004.
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