University faculty from 19 universities will gather at Idaho Sate University this week as part of an information-organization conference.
The faculty members will be hearing presentations on information systems, informatics, accounting, management, marketing, finance, economics and pedagogy. The conference is titled “Information, the lifeblood of our organizations” and is the 50th annual Mountain Plains Management Conference. It is scheduled for Oct. 8 -10. The ISU Informatics Research Institute is hosting the conference.
Conference keynote speaker is Dr. Lisa Cannon-Albright of University of Utah, an internationally known informatics research specialist. She will speak on the balance needed between analyzing health care information and protecting personal health care data.
A special presentation by Dr. Gene Griessman, the world’s preeminent Abraham Lincoln actor, playwright and scholar, will appear in costume and present “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln” in the Beverly B. Bistline Thrust Theater in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. on October 9. His appearance, sponsored in part by the J.R. Simplot Co., is open to the public with 200 seats available on a first-come, first-serve basis.