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Professor and students present research

September 23, 2003

CARROLLTON, GA - Two University of West Georgia students and a sports management professor will present their research at the Fifth Annual Florida State University Sport Management Conference. The students will be the only undergraduate presenters and are the only UWG students to have ever attended the conference.

Sport management majors Kerri Eagan, junior from Douglasville, and Tim Tippins, senior from Carrollton, will present Are You Ready for Some Football?, an analysis of media representations during Monday Night football broadcasts.

The research presentation is part of Eagan’s independent study this semester, but Tippins’ participation is on his own time. Their presentation will include the results of additional research conducted this fall on an extension of research completed in the last academic year.
Through a highly competitive selection process, their research was chosen as the College of Education’s presentation at UWG’s Big Night. Big Night is a research competition that is open to students in all academic areas and at all class and grade-point levels. Winners are chosen from the areas of humanities, business, education, the sciences and the social sciences.

Dr. Richard Southall, assistant professor of physical education and recreation, will also present at the FSU conference and his paper is entitled Are Your Values, My Values? An Analysis of College and University Cultural Values.

The research was accepted as the result of a blind review process by a committee of sport management faculty at FSU. The conference program is comprised of academics from sport management, sport industry practitioners and graduate students from universities throughout the southeastern United States.

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