Academic Background -       
M.S. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. 
Major field: Taxation.
B.S. Bryant University, Smithfield, RI.
Major fields: Accounting and Computer Science.

Research Areas - 
Financial Accounting & Reporting
Accounting Education
Effective Pedagogy

Publications-
" From the Chalkboard to the SMART Board and Back Again:  Challenges in the High Tech Classroom." BizEd, published by AACSB International, Winter 2005.

" Initiatives to Attract and Retain Accounting Majors: Successful Programs" Sponsored by Providence College, co-authored with PC colleague, Ann Galligan Kelley.  Research Journal of Business Disciplines, Volume 10, Fall 2004.

" Initiatives to Attract and Retain Accounting Majors: Successful Programs" Sponsored by Providence College, Co-authored with Ann Galligan Kelley.  Conference proceedings for 2/6/2004 Annual Meeting of the Mid-South Association of Business Disciplines (MSABD).

Achievements-
Davis Educational Foundation Instructional Technology Project Grant:  Awarded in November 2003 to further integrate the use of technology in teaching and learning practices to enhance student learning in Introductory Accounting 101 and 102 and Intermediate Accounting I and II.

Current Research Projects/Student Collaborations -
Poster session at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, August 9, 2005, called Inventory Road Trip.

Co-presented a poster session with A. Kelley at American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, August 10, 2005, on teaching students to analyze annual reports.

" Top Ten Teaching Techniques:  To Enhance Teaching & Student Learning," presented paper at the American Academy of Accounting & Finance Conference, (AAAF), December 2004 , Submitting for publication to the Academy's refereed journal, The Journal of Accounting & Finance Research.

" Tug of War in the Accounting Classroom: An Ever Changing Balancing Act," submitting article for publication in the winter 2005 issue of The Accounting Educator.