PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Awards

MTSU Outstanding Public Service Award for 2004-2005, August 2005.
MTSU College of Business Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Fall 2003
MTSU Outstanding Research Award, Fall, 2002
Voted Outstanding Professor in the College of Business by students via Gamma Iota Sigma election, 2000.
American Real Estate Society Manuscript Prize for the best paper of the year in the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management during 2000 for "Risk and Return Perceptions of Institutional Investors," (with G. Stacy Sirmans and Elaine Worzala). Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, April 2001.
1997 American Real Estate Society Manuscript Prize ($1000) for the best study on apartments with "Security and the Apartment Market" (with G. Stacy Sirmans and John Benjamin). Awarded by the American Real Estate Society, to be published in the Journal of Real Estate Research, 1998.
Best Paper Award for 1996 by American Real Estate Society for article published in the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, April 1997. "An Analysis of the Historical Environment of Real Estate Returns," with Stacy Sirmans and John Benjamin.

Professional Activities

Member, MTSU Faculty Senate, Spring 2004-present
Reviewer Financial Management: A Modern Approach, 1e, by Raymond Brooks, Addison Wesley Longman, 2004.
Associate Editor, Journal of Insurance Issues, Fall 2000-present.
Member, Program Committee, American Real Estate Society, 2004
Member, Program Committee, American Risk and Insurance Association
Member, Strickler Award Committee, American Risk and Insurance Association
Consultant, Institute for Defense Analyses, Safety Act protection as part of the Department of Homeland Security, Alexandria, Virginia, December 2003 to present.
Reviewer of Real Estate Finance (textbook) for Dearborn Publishers, 2003
Reviewer of finance textbook proposal for Addison-Wesley Publishers, 2003
Curriculum Coordinator and Lecturer, Caterpillar Insurance, Nashville, TN, 1999-2001.
Textbook reviewer, Principles of Risk Management and Insurance by George E. Rejda, Addison Wesley Longman.
Exam Writer for the American Institute for CPCU, 1995-1998.
Elected to Board of Directors, Southern Risk and Insurance Association, Fall 1996.
Expert Witness on various legal cases, 1994 to present.
Book Reviewer for the CPCU Journal,Legislative Trends in Insurance Regulation, Vol. 41, no.2, (June) 1988.

Journal Reviewer

Conference Paper Discussant

Conference Moderator

Professional Designations

Passed Chartered Life Underwriter exam (HS 323), December 1998.
Completed the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation, December 1995. Awarded by the American Institute for CPCU, Malvern, PA. Requires passing three exams.
Completed the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, January 1995. Awarded by the American Institute for CPCU, Malvern, PA. Requires passing ten exams.
Passed Exam I of American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers of the National Association of Realtors, 1990.
Licensed as Independent Property and Casualty Insurance Agent, State of Mississippi, since 1985.

Public Service

Mentor and tutor for Patterson and January Street Housing Projects, Murfreesboro, TN, since 2002
Member, Finance Committee, First Methodist Church, Murfreesboro, since 2001
Chair and member, Scholarship committee, First United Methodist Church, Murfreesboro, TN, 2000-2003
Interviewed on personal insurance planning for Channel 8 during the Gamma Iota Sigma Personal Asset Management Series, March 1997.
Member, Scholarship Committee, First United Methodist Church, Houston, Mississippi, since 1995.

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