The Dick Pope Sr. Institute for Tourism Studies (DPI) and the Office of Research & Commercialization (ORC) recently organized a \u2018Collaboration Luncheon to Share Research Ideas.\u2019\u00a0 This gathering of the minds was held Friday, Sept. 16, at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ researchers in the areas of hospitality management, economics, sociology and civil\/environmental engineering connected and were encouraged to collaborate on new research initiatives.<\/p>\n
The luncheon promoted faculty scholarship while ideas of mutual interest that could lead to the development of competitive research proposals were discussed.<\/p>\n
Rosen College faculty in attendance included: Dr. Po-Ju Chen; Dr. Robertico Croes; Dr. Duncan Dickson; Mr. Ron Logan; Dr. Kevin Murphy; Dr. Kal Nusair; Dr. Fevzi Okumus; Dr. H.G. Parsa; Dr. Manuel Rivera; Dr. Cheyenne Ro; Dr. Paul Rompf; Dr. Dipendra Singh and Mr. Scott Smith.<\/p>\n
In addition to Rosen College faculty, other researchers included: Dr. Sarah Barber, Anthropology Department; Dr. James Wright, Sociology Department; Dr. Dingbao Wang, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering Department; Dr. David M. Nickerson, Statistics Department; Dr. Jose Maunez-Cuadra, Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies; Dr. Tom O\u2019Neal, ORC; Dr. Amit Joshi, Marketing Department; Dr. Patrick Bohlen, Biology Department.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the ORC is to foster new research activities among Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ faculty. For more, please visit their website<\/a>. The DPI is dedicated to increasing the benefits of tourism through research, public awareness and education. For more information, please visit the DPI website<\/a> or e-mail dpi@ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dick Pope Sr. Institute for Tourism Studies (DPI) and the Office of Research & Commercialization (ORC) recently organized a \u2018Collaboration Luncheon to Share Research Ideas.\u2019\u00a0 This gathering of the minds was held Friday, Sept. 16, at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management. Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ researchers in the areas of hospitality management, economics, sociology and civil\/environmental engineering connected and were encouraged…","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":27846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[17958,6853,5594,17959,17972,17960,14916,5590,4068,5513],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-27842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-research","tag-duncan-dickson","tag-fevzi-okumus","tag-h-g-parsa","tag-kevin-murphy","tag-manuel-rivera","tag-po-ju-chen","tag-research","tag-robertico-croes","tag-rosen-college-of-hospitality-management","tag-tom-oneal"],"yoast_head":"\n