Donald Arnold, professor of GMI, and Presha Neidermeyer, assistant
professor, presented a paper, “European Materiality Estimates: The Effect of Client
Integrity, Culture, and Litigation” at the annual conferences of the British
Accounting Association and the National British Auditing Conference. Neidermeyer also
presented a paper, “An Investigation of the Impact of Disclosure on Perceptions of
Risk: A Study of Initial Public Offerings” at the British Accounting
Association's annual conference. Arnold also lead a debate session at the 1999 annual
conference of the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association in which he
argued against the hypothesis that “Public Accounting Firms Remain
'Independent' While Doing Both Auditing and Consulting.”
Stephen Horton, assistant professor of biology, gave a paper titled
“Regulation of dikaryon-expressed genes by FRT1 in the basidiomycete Schizophyllum
commune” recently at the 20th Fungal Biology Conference in Pacific Grove,
California. He co-authored a paper of the same name with students William Smith '97
and Gail Palmer (M.S. student), published in the March issue of Fungal Genetics and
Biology (26: 33-47). A graduating senior research student, Richard Simmons '99,
presented a paper titled “Site-directed mutagenesis of the suspected ATP-binding site
of the FRT1 protein in Schizophyllum commune” at NCUR. One of
Horton's current research projects involves the students of Bio 140 (Molecular
Genetics), who are studying genes involved in the process of light reception and the
resetting of biological clocks.