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From left: Nicole Adams and Fadila Dawuni |
School of Business students Nicole Adams of New Windsor, N.Y. and Fadila Dawuni, an international student from Ghana, won the William J. Ziegler Best Student Paper Award at the Academy of International Business Southeast chapter conference held in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla. Oct. 29-31.
The undergraduate students' paper, "Culture as a Fundamental Block to Understanding of Emotional Intelligence Traits: The Role of Gender," included research done in the United States, France and Germany. Both students are majoring in international business.
The paper, which is now under review to be published in Academy of International Business - Southeast Chapter Journal, beat out eight doctoral students' papers.
"We spent the whole summer working on the paper including researching, writing, editing and meeting with Professor Mohammad Elahee," Adams said. "Basically, what we did was write a cross-cultural research study on the different levels of emotional intelligence traits across cultures and the role gender plays in these trait levels."
Adams and Dawuni began their research for the paper in the Spring 2008 semester. They continued their work and overseas research throughout the summer. Adams and Dawuni are part of the University's European Union minor program, which includes a six-week field experience where students spend time in Rennes, France, and Magdeburg, Germany. During this time, students attend seminars on different topics about the country given by native professors of both France and Germany.
"The 12 students who were part of the European Union minor this year did a great amount of research to complete these papers," said Elahee, an international business professor at Quinnipiac. "With many of the papers, the writing was much above that of undergraduates."
After receiving the award, the two students decided to expand their research and create new papers to submit to the academy at a later date.
"Fadila and I both plan to continue researching this area and branch off from our paper and past research," Adams said. "We will start our new project in December or January."