{"id":6094,"date":"2017-05-03T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2017-05-04T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:05:15","slug":"conference-offers-opportunity-to-share-business-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2017\/05\/03\/conference-offers-opportunity-to-share-business-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference offers opportunity to share business research"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>When Hossein Varamini came to Elizabethtown College in 2000, he brought along an idea of sharing business students\u2019 accomplishments by way of a conference. Four international business majors participated that first year, presenting their research papers to other students and talking with faculty members about research they\u2019d worked on throughout the year.<\/p>\n

At the 17th-Annu<\/a>al Student Conference in Business & Economics, which took place this past April at the College\u2019s James B. Hoover Center for Business, 20 students presented research papers and class work. Fellow students and several Elizabethtown College faculty members offered feedback.<\/p>\n

Though the concept of the Conference is similar to the College\u2019s Scholarship and Creative Arts Days (SCAD), the Business Conference was in place several years before SCAD was formed. \u201cThis program is the same (as SCAD) in terms of providing opportunity to share research and papers,\u201d said Varamini, Turnbull-Jamieson Professor of Finance and International Business at Elizabethtown. But this Conference is specifically for students in business disciplines, he said.<\/p>\n

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We provide more opportunity for students — willing to put in the additional work — to shine.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Most taking part in the Conference are seniors, Varamini said. A few, however, present research, at varying levels of knowledge, each year they are in the program.<\/p>\n

This Conference sets the College\u2019s undergraduate program apart from other College\u2019. \u201cWe provide more opportunity for students — willing to put in the additional work — to shine,\u201d said Varamini.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresenting at the Business Conference is the beginning of a roadmap for them to continue on,\u201d he said. \u201cThe abstracts of the papers go on to be printed in our annual Digest. Some students go on to national conferences. \u2026 Five or six of these research papers have been published in national journals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Varamini said he sends out Conference invitations to nearby colleges and universities inviting their students to come to E-town to present. Students from Franklin & Marshall, Susquehanna and Millersville universities have participated in the Conference. \u201cThere was even a student from Northeastern University in Boston, this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A couple of faculty members have worked with Varamini as co-organizers of the conference in the past. This year Kristi Kneas, dean for academic affairs and faculty development, offered the opening remarks at the beginning of this year\u2019s conference, and a committee comprising business faculty members and a business student coordinated Conference planning. Madi McCall, a senior international business major with a concentration in finance, sat on the committee.<\/p>\n

McCall has been a student assistant to Varamini, helping him with the incoming international business class, putting together student profile sheets so the professor can contact them to discuss the major.<\/p>\n

When McCall was accepted at Elizabethtown, she planned to be a business major, but, after speaking with Varamini, she switched to international business.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, McCall said, she saw her peers present their research at the Conference. \u201cI saw this young man present and thought \u2018I want to do that\u2019,\u201d she said. She said she might not have participated if she had not seen him speak.<\/p>\n

As an extra spin on her experience, Varamini \u201cthought it would be a good experience for me to see (the Conference) from both sides. Organizing and presenting,\u201d McCall said.<\/p>\n

Her committee role, she said, was to add student perspective to Conference planning. Her student role was to present her Honors in the Discipline research on \u2018Impact Investing as a way to solve social problems.\u2019 The faculty mentor-based research was important her she said. \u201cWe are a smaller school, so the faculty-student interaction is greater.\u201d Seeing the conference from both sides confirmed this.<\/p>\n

The Bath, Pennsylvania, native won one of the Conference’s Best Paper Awards, voted on by fellow students and faculty members, said Varmini, and she was just accepted for an entry level client specialist position with Vanguard in Malvern. She said the financial position starts two months after graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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