Teaching

• MRKT 210 Principles of Marketing
• MRKT 318 Integrated Marketing Communications
• MRKT 480 Seminar

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Professional Excellence

• Ph.D., Agricultural Communications & Education, Texas Tech University

• MBA, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN

• M.Ed., Instructional Technology & Human Resources Development, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

• Graduate Certificate, Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece

• B.S., Agricultural Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Kalamata

Research, Publications, and Presentations

• Hailey, V., Spencer, D., & Kalyvaki, M. (2024). Orchestrating Sales Success: A Comprehensive Exploration of Required Professional Selling Skills. Manuscript selected for presentation at the Academy of Business Research Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 20-22, 2024.

• Kalyvaki, Maria; McIntosh, Heather; Nash, Kyle. "Virtual selfhood and consumer behavior: Exploring avatar attachment and consumption patterns in Second Life's metaverse." Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. Volume 1, Issue 2, 2023, 100016. ISSN 2949-8821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2023.100016

• Kalyvaki M., Spencer D., Bowyer S., Preparing Gen Z for a career in Agribusiness: what industry wants amid the COVID crisis? Short Paper Presentation, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) 2022, Costa Rica

• Mead C., Schalge S., Kalyvaki M., Teaching in the Time of Covid-19: Holistic, Enduring and Challenging Responses in Higher Education, Panel Presentation, Annual Conference 2022- Society for Applied Anthropology, Salt Lake, UT

• Rendahl K., Mead C., Kalyvaki M., Ye Q., Degener R. and Schalge S., Compassion in Online Teaching and Learning: Before and after the declaration of the global Covid -19 pandemic, Scholars at Work at MSU 2022, Mankato, MN

• Meehl, M., Hadoop, W. and Kalyvaki, M. WINS is Winning at Preparing Women for Leadership in IT. Poster. PEARC20. Virtually.
• Kalyvaki. M. & Sajdak, D. Empowering Women in HPC careers through participation in the WINS apprenticeship. Poster. PEARC19. Chicago, IL.
• Neeman, H., Al-Azzawi, H., Bergstrom, A., Braiterman, Z., Brunson, D., Colbry, D., Colmenares, E., Fuller, A., Gesing, S., Kalyvaki, M., Mizumoto, C., Park, J., Schwartz, A., Simms, J., and Vania, R. 2018. Progress Update on the Development and Implementation of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research & Education Facilitators Virtual Residency Program. Article and Oral Presentation. PEARC’18. Pittsburgh, PA.
• Kalyvaki, M. & Stewart, J. 2018. Winning with WINS: Women in IT Networking for SuperComputing. Oral Presentation. UETN Tech Summit. Salt Lake, Utah.
• Mehta, A. & Kalyvaki, M. 2017. Learning Management System: Education Research in the Era of Technology, Computer-Aided Data Analysis in Chemical Education Research (CADACER): Advances and Avenues. January 1, 2017, 9-19 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bk-2017-1260.ch002.
• Kalyvaki, M. & Nwachukwu, B. 2015. Training the Technology Resource Center (TRC) student workers through Brightspace (D2L), Minnesota Brightspace Ignite. Minneapolis, MN.
• Navarrete, L., Grisham, B., Kalyvaki, M., McGaughey, K., Mougey, K., Skipper, B., Perry, G., and Boal. C. 2013. Diurnal Activity Patterns of Black-Necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) During the Non- Breeding Season in the Eastern Caribbean. Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 26, 17–21.
• Skipper, B., Grisham, B., Kalyvaki, M., McGaughey, M., Mougey, K., Navarrete, L., Rondeau, R., Boal, C., and Perry. G. 2013. Non-Overlapping Distributions of Feral Sheep (Ovis aries) and Stout Iguana (Cyclura pinguis) on Guana Island, British Virgin Islands. IRCF Reptiles and Amphibians 20, 7–15.
• Kalyvaki, M. & Sidiropoulou, S. 2009. Coverage of Climate Change in Greek Newspapers: Preliminary Results. Poster. Texas Tech University Graduate Conference. Lubbock, TX.
• Klein, C., Kalyvaki, M., & Mullins, D. 2010. A Research Based Approach for Developing Printed Recruitment Material for Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Students. Oral Presentation. 2010 NACTA Conference. Penn State University, PA.

Service and Outreach

• Chair- Faculty Development Committee

• SC Conference – Scinet Contributors Relations Deputy Chair and Planning Committee member

• XCEDE- Campus Champion

Areas of Expertise

My research interests center on self-branding, social media marketing and agribusiness.

Awards and Honors

• (2021) Faculty Improvement Grant (FIG)

• (2020) Nadine B. Andreas Research Faculty Grant