Faculty-Student Research

Albers students have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty on research projects in three different ways:

  • "Assist" - Research Assistant (RA): Students may apply to support faculty in their research each quarter.
  • "Explore" - Research Independent Study: Students may register for a 3-credit (5-credit for graduate students) course with a faculty member that involves a research product. Research products are undertaken with the goal of presenting and/or publishing the research in a scholarly outlet. 
  • "Collaborate" - Co-authorship: Faculty and students decide they are going to co-author and jointly conduct research and write a research paper together. This process can be initiated by the student or by the faculty member(s). 

Albers Faculty-Student Research Collaboration Award

This competitive, monetary award is given each May and recognized at the annual Albers Student Awards Ceremony and Reception. Any completed co-authorship submitted in January is eligible for consideration. The research does not need to be published to qualify for the award. 

2023 Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Professor Meena Rishi and Albers alum Ryan Cowles
Project Title: "Globalization and Regional Economic Inequality in the U.S."
Outcome: A chapter in Income Inequality in America (ed. Stacey Jones and Robert Rycroft), which was published earlier in 2023.

2022 Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Associate Teaching Professor Stacey Jones and Albers alum Cameron Hub
Project Title: "The History of Inequality in America"
Outcome: A chapter in Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences, edited by Robert Rycroft and Kimberly Kinsley and published in 2021.

2021 Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Associate Professor Erin Vernon and Albers alum Raechel Warren
Project Title: "The Value of Health Awareness Days, Weeks and Months: A Systematic Review"
Outcome: Publication in one of the most prestigious academic journals in the field - Social Science and Medicine.

2020 Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Associate Professor Colette Hoption and Albers alum Mary Han
Project Title: "Transformational Mommy and Me: Raising Implicit Followership Theories."
Outcome: This paper was presented at the 2019 Association of Psychological Science Annual Convention and the 2019 Global Followership Conference, and has been accepted for a special issue on Followership in Industrial and Commercial Training.

2019 Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Senior Instructor Stacey Jones and Albers alum Michael Saito
Project Title: "To Taste Internally: Ignatian Pedagogy and Service-Learning at the Farmers Market"
Outcome: Presented at the IAJBS conference in July 2018 and then accepted for publication in the Journal of Jesuit Business Education.

2018 Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Associate Professor Quan Le and Albers senior Braden Wild 
Project Title: "The Case of Café Ambiental, SPC: A New Business Model for a Nicaraguan Fair Trade Cooperative”
Outcome: Published in World Development Perspectives and presented at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum’s workshop on cooperative movements in Central and Latin America in Minneapolis in September 2017. A modified version of the paper was presented at the Fair Trade National Conference in Washington, DC in March 2018.

2017 Award Winners:

Faculty and Students: Professor Ben Kim and Professional MBA students Nina Tunis and Adrian Green
Project Title: "Analyzing Risks for Home Loans During Financial Crisis of 2008 Using Data Mining"
Outcome: Published in Issues in Information Systems

Previous Award Winners:

Faculty and Student: Assistant Professor Brian Kelly and undergraduate student Natalie Bold
Project Title: Making the Grade: The Importance of Teachers and Teacher Education as it Relates to Student Achievement Across Countries
Outcome: Presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research and to the SU Undergraduate Research Association, then won first place in the 2013 Undergraduate Statistics Research Project nationwide competition, which involved a webinar presentation.

2017 Faculty-Student Research Collaboration Projects

Faculty Member: Ben Kim, PhD, Professor of Management
Graduate Students: Nina Tunis and Adrian Green
Project Title: "Analyzing Risks for Home Loans During Financial Crisis of 2008 Using Data Mining"
Outcome: Published in Issues in Information Systems

Faculty Member: Jennifer Marrone, PhD, Associate Professor of Management
Professional MBA Student: Angelina Kalinovich 
Project Title: Shared Leadership: A Primer and Teaching Recommendations for Educators
Outcomes: Published in the Journal for Leadership Education and presented at the Association for Leadership Educators Conference (ALE) in Sacramento, CA.

Faculty Member: Jennifer Marrone, PhD, Associate Professor of Management
Professional MBA students: Maria Bauermeister, Jon Greer, Angelina Kalinovich, Megan Pahl, Lauren Rochholz, Barry Wilson
Project Title: Preparing Students for Leadership Through Experiential Learning
Outcomes: Published in the Journal for Leadership Education, presented at the Western Academy of Management Annual Meetings, and published as smaller articles in BizEd Magazine and the Albers Brief.

Faculty Member: Marinilka Kimbro, PhD, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Undergraduate Students: Abdul Almadani & Nils Fenske
Graduate Student: Seema Pinto
Project Title: Identifying Fraud and Evaluating Risks: Integrating Business Processes, Big Data & Advanced Analytics for Fraud Detection
Outcomes: Accepted for presentation at the American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2016, the 7th International Conference on Governance Fraud, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, and the SU Graduate Student Research Conference 2016. Currently under review at an academic journal.

Faculty Member: Bryan Ruppert, PhD, Senior Instructor in Business Communications
Undergraduate Student: Robert Duggan 
Project Title: Starbucks on the world state: Evidence of cultural sensitivity?
Outcome: Presentation at the National conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR)