JOINED VPI& SU: 1972
EDUCATION:
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Bachelor's |
SUNY- Stony Brook |
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Master's |
Penn State University |
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Doctorate |
Penn State University |
OTHER PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
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CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:
Work, Occupations and Organizational Behavior
Sociology of Science
Metasociology
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Gender, Work Values and Job Satisfaction
Technology Transfer and Impact
SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
William E. Snizek and Kate McCain, Guest editors, Special Issue on Robert K. Merton, Scientometrics, Vol. 60, 2004.
Certificate of Appreciation for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech’s
Panhellenic Council, 2003.
University Sporn Award for excellence in the teaching of introductory
subjects, 2003.
Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, 2002.
Five Undergraduate Teaching Awards, Virginia Tech's Sociology Department, 1988; 1991; 1996; 1998; 2000
Ten Certificates of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech's College of Arts and Sciences, 1973-80; 1988; 1995
Nominated by the Provost's Office for the Professor of the Year Award, given by the Carnegie Foundation's Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, 1997
Founding Fellow in the Center for Human and Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, 1995
Associate Editor of Sociology of Work and Occupations: An International Journal, 1984-1995
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Ball, Daisy B. and William E. Snizek, “Desktop Graffiti: An Unobtrusive Measure of Student Culture and Campus Climate,” National Social Science Journal, (forthcoming, 2007).
Overbeeke,
Marlies and William E . Snizek, “Websites and Corporate Culture:
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Research Note,” Business and Society, Vol.
44: 346-356,
2005.
Zhiwei Zhang and William E. Snizek, “Occupation, Job Characteristics, and the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs,” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, Vo. 31, 2003, pp. 395-412.
Snizek , William E. and Joseph J. Kestel. Understanding and Preventing the Premature Exodus of Mature Middle Managers from Today's Corporations. Organization Development Journal, Vol.17, Fall 1999, 63-71.
Hollar, Daniele S. and William E. Snizek, The Influences of Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and Self-esteem on the Sexual Practices of College Students. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, Vol. 24, 1996, 75-86
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