Faculty News

Associate Professor Sergey Anokhin and Associate Professor Fabian Eggers were rated among the top 30 most prominent researchers in their field this fall. The World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development recognized their work in entrepreneurial orientation based on bibliometric analysis.

Senior Adjunct Professor Pamela Gullard’s latest fiction, titled “Listen,” will appear in the May 2022 issue, vol. 31, of the New Ohio Review.

Trustee and Adjunct Professor Helene Kim is teaching The Role of Blockchain in Business Model Innovation, which studies the rapidly emerging global industry around enterprise blockchain, smart contracts and crypto currencies. This is the first time that the College has offered a course on blockchain, and it has attracted interest among Menlo students from diverse backgrounds and nationalities who aspire to careers in finance, technology management and digital transformation. The first student cohort is planning to launch a Blockchain Club next spring under Professor Kim’s direction.

Provost Grande Lum participated in ‘Bravethrough’ for Peace Day with Maya Soetoro-Ng, Menlo’s 2021 Commencement Speaker. Seen on the left, Provost Lum’s alter ego Space Ghost celebrating Halloween 2021 during the Menlo costume contest!!

Professor Lisa Mendelman recently published several new pieces in literary studies. In “Diagnosing Desire: Mental Health and Modern American Literature 1890-1955,” a piece in American Literary History’s special issue dedicated to second books, Mendelman glosses her new project on the history of mental health for which the Huntington Library awarded her a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship. With Octavio Gonzalez (Wellesley), she has authored a screenplay introduction to their edited cluster on “The Character of Contemporary Literary Criticism” for the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present/Journal. With Heather A. Love (University of Waterloo), she discussed our evolving diagnostic cultures as a way of introducing their edited cluster on “Modernism and Diagnosis” for Modernism/modernity.

Dean Melissa R. Michelson’s latest book, LGBTQ Life in America: Examining the Facts was released in December 2021 (turn to page 30 to learn more about this book. She also published a blog in The Fulcrum on the Ask Every Student campaign to increase college student voter registration, as well as an op-ed in the San Mateo Daily Journal about redistricting. Michaelson had two articles accepted for publication: ‘Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind: How Textbook Writing Improves Your Undergraduate Teaching”

(in PS: Political Science & Politics), and “Sports Elites, Counter-stereotypical Statements and Immigration Attitudes” (in Social Science Quarterly), and was quoted extensively in the media, including the SF Chronicle, AP, the San Jose Mercury News, the Minneapolis Post, Inside Higher Ed, the Sacramento Bee, and the LA Times.

Dean La’Tonya Rease Miles (left) with student Madison Thompson ’24.

Dean of Student Affairs La’Tonya Rease-Miles was recognized by Facebook for the first-generation student Facebook group she co-founded to promote online community building. She was also featured in an episode of the Student Affairs Now! Podcast about the experiences of first-generation students.

Dean of the School of Business Mouwafac Sidaoui was asked by the National Business and Economics Conference to present “Thinking Through Design: A Case Study of How Data Science Teams Use Design Thinking at Hitachi Vantara.”

Under the direction of Director Annika Steiber, Menlo’s Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center offered three executive courses this year. Collectively, the three courses attracted almost 100 senior leaders from across the globe, representing Accenture, Bank of the West, Ericsson, GE Appliances, HP, Intel, and more. Lead instructors included Stephen Denning and John Hagel, both well-known from Forbes, the Peter Drucker Forum, and the World Economic Forum. The Center also offered ten webinars on such varied topics as climate change and its disruptive impact on businesses. (Contact Dr. Steiber at Annika.steiber@menlo.edu if you are interested in taking part in the Center’s mission to speed up development of new knowledge in the field of management.)

Adjunct Professor Don Uy-Barreta was invited to share his thoughts on opportunity costs with MoneyGeek in their Expert Insights column. As Professor Uy-Bareta explained it, an opportunity cost is the regret you may have from not taking another option–not just the explicit costs of a choice, but also the implicit ones.