UF students with Dr. F. Dominic Dottavio, president of Heidelberg College, Dr. David Weininger, vice president for academic affairs of Heidelberg College and Ghose, faculty adviser.

Nabarun Ghose, D.B.A., professor of marketing and business, encourages student research and presentation both domestically and abroad.

On Feb. 19, Ghose traveled with seven undergraduate students and five graduate students to Heidelberg College for the Minds at Work: 15th Annual Student Research Conference.

Undergraduate students Virginia Wills, Carla Groves, Ranita Hoy, David Foust, Brittany Jones, Devin Games and Elizabeth Blosser and graduate students Krishna Thumati, Nandan Shah, Girish Harokeythanahalli, Chandra Mohan Seelam and Lajja Shah submitted proposals for the conference and were accepted as presenters with help from Ghose.

The team was the largest from any visiting university in the history of the conference.

Earlier this year, Ghose worked with Shah to submit two papers for consideration at the World Universities Forum in Davis, Switzerland. Both proposals were accepted for 30-minute presentations: “A Master Teaching Plan for Universities Worldwide for Developing Global Business Competencies: Building Career Portfolios through International Research Experience and Study Abroad” and “Research Insights into a Developing Market: Relationship Between Financial Confidence and Consumer Ethnocentrism.”

The Master Teaching Plan presentation was attended by the largest audience for a paper presentation at the forum. According to Ghose, the presentation drew “substantial interest and positive awe in the establishment, organization and execution of the India Study Abroad Program at The University of Findlay, the M.B.A. program and the preparedness of UF students from executives, administrators and faculty from Great Britain, Germany, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia.” Both papers will be published in The Journal of The World Universities Forum.

“The organizers told us that Ms. Lajja Shah was the only master’s student in the world who presented at the forum. I believe her presentation was the best among all the presentations we attended. She improved manifold on her presentation skills since her presentation at the ACBSP Region IV Conference in London, Ontario, Canada in October 2007,” said Ghose.