West Virginia Universitys College of Business and Economics welcomes 10 new faculty members who bring a unique set of expertise and experience in business and academia.

They are:

• Brandon Cline , assistant professor of finance. Cline comes to WVU after teaching for a year as a visiting assistant professor of finance at the University of Alabama. His 2005 dissertation at the University of Alabama explored insider trading as it relates to the early exercise of executive stock options. His primary areas of interest include executive compensation and insider trading. He is teaching business finance this fall semester.

• Jody Crosno, visiting assistant professor of marketing. Crosno is completing her doctorate in marketing from the University of Kentucky. She also has a masters degree in business administration with a focus in management information systems and a bachelors degree in marketing from Ohio University. Crosno has business experience from consulting projects with several firms while working on her graduate studies.

• Richard Gentry , assistant professor of management and industrial relations. Gentry earned a doctorate and masters degree in business administration from the University of Floridas Warrington College of Business. As a doctoral student, he lectured there and in Nigeria at the Public Utility Research Center. His research interests include competitive strategies and performance, global strategy, and strategic alliances.

• Joyce Heames , assistant professor of management and industrial relations. Heames earned her doctorate from the University of Mississippi, where she also was a lecturer. With research interests in human resource management and organizational behavior, her dissertation looked at counterproductive work behavior, specifically workplace bullying and bystander intervention capabilities. She is now teaching staffing and selection in the Master of Science in Industrial Relations program.

• Tim Heames , visiting assistant professor. Heames taught the senior-level capstone course in strategic planning at University of Mississippi before coming to WVU . He also brings professional experience as associate dean and lecturer in management at the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University and as associate professor and director of the Executive MBA Program at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Heames did his graduate work at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon. His interests include strategic planning and information systems.

• Bwo-nung Huang , visiting professor for the 2006-07 academic year. Huang joins the Department of Economics from Taiwan, where he served as the dean of management at National Chia-yi University while on leave as a professor of economics at National Chung-cheng University. Huang has held several notable positions, including chair of the Department of Economics and acting dean of management at National Chung-cheng University, chair for a research center, and the dean of management at Providence University in Taiwan. His research interests include economic growth and applied econometrics.

• Joanne Taylor , lecturer in forensics accounting. Taylor is a graduate of the College of Business and Economics, with an undergraduate degree in accounting, a minor in sociology, and a masters degree in professional accountancy. This summer she taught graduate courses in forensic accounting and fraud investigation. Taylor will be developing teaching materials of complex scenarios in fraudulent financial reporting and criminal fraud cases, and financial evidentiary matter for student forensic crime scene house exercise as part of the investigative case.

• Michael Walsh , assistant professor of marketing. Walsh earned his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005. He teaches courses in services marketing and advertising, and his research interests include consumer behavior issues, such as consumer resistance to change. He comes to academia from the private sector, with more than 25 yearsexperience in general management, advertising and marketing, with a focus on specialized marketing communication strategies.

• Pavel Yakovlev , research assistant professor in the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Yakovlev is conducting background research supporting West Virginia tax modernization and is involved with other BBER research projects funded by the West Virginia Legislature on K-12 educational financing and the West Virginia State Road fund. This fall, he will teach a course in public economics. He obtained his doctorate in economics from WVU and an undergraduate degree in economics from Shepherd University.

• Kanybek Nur-tegin , research assistant professor in the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Nur-tegin will join the Economics of the Forensic Industry research team. This project is funded by a $608,000 grant from the National Institute for Justice. Nur-tegin has just arrived from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he received both his doctorate and undergraduate degrees in economics.