William A. Kracaw, chair of finance in The Smeal College of Business
Administration, has been named to the David B and Shirley L. Sykes Endowed
Professorship in Finance.Dr. Linda M. Famiglio has been named assistant dean for medical education in the College of Medicine. Famiglio has been an associate of pediatric neurology at Geisinger Medical Center since 1994. She also served as director of the Pediatric Residency Program from 1995-1998 and co-director of the Epilepsy Management Program at Geisinger Medical Center, as well as a consultant for the Pediatric Neurology Outreach Clinic of Pocono Medical Center.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1978 and received her M.D. with academic distinction in medicine and neurology in 1983 from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. Her residencies in both pediatrics and neurology were served at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Famiglio was a research associate at the Duke University Center for the Advanced Study of Epilepsy, while simultaneously a staff pediatric physician and director of the Exceptional Family Member Program of the Army Community Hospital in Fort Bragg, N.C. She was a senior fellow in epilepsy and a fellow in clinical neurophysiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Wash. She served as director of the Epilepsy Center at Hahnemann University Hospital and was on the staff at both Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown and St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem before joining the staff of Geisinger in 1994.
William A. Kracaw, chair of finance in The Smeal College of Business
Administration, has been named to the David B and Shirley L. Sykes Endowed
Professorship in Finance.
Kracaw has served as Smeal's finance chair since 1991. The department he administers is home for two dozen tenure-track and fixed-term faculty members. Nearly 600 undergraduate students are pursuing majors in finance; more than one-third of the students in the MBA program are pursuing studies in financial services; and approximately a dozen doctoral candidates are specializing in finance.
Before joining Penn State, Kracaw was an associate professor of management at Purdue University, where he taught and conducted research for 10 years. Before that, he was a visiting instructor at the University of Utah, where he also earned Ph.D., MBA and B.S. degrees.
Kracaw is an expert in the areas of agency theory, financial intermediation, financial risk management and derivative markets. His most recent papers have dealt with "The Wealth Effects of Bank Financing Announcements in Highly Leveraged Transactions" and "Corporate Takeovers, Firm Performance and Board Composition."
In addition to numerous other publications, he is the co-author of textbooks in financial risk management and financial institutions and capital markets. Kracaw has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Research and as a referee for 12 academic journals. At Smeal, he teaches courses in financial markets and risk management in graduate and executive education programs.
The Sykes professorship was created through a gift from retired food industry executive David B Sykes of Chevy Chase, Md. A 1940 Penn State business alumnus, Sykes is the former chief financial officer, senior vice president of finance, secretary and treasurer of Giant Food Inc.
Jennifer M. Kulics was recently named the new director of athletics,
intramurals and recreational sports at Penn State Beaver.
Kulics holds a master's degree in exercise physiology from Kent State University and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Bowling Green University. She will administer and coordinate Penn State Beaver's intercollegiate and intramural athletic programs as well as the campus' recreational sports program.
Kulics served as the women's basketball administrative assistant at Kent State. She also has served as a physical therapy aide and was a coach/instructor/counselor for girls basketball camps at Kent State, Bowling Green and Youngstown State University.
Kulics has published two articles in professional journals and is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Paul L. Lancaster was recently named the new coordinator of
residence life at Penn State Beaver.
Lancaster is a graduate of the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, R.I., and holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from California University of Pennsylvania. He is working toward a master's degree in counselor education, also from California University.
Lancaster most recently served as a graduate assistant for California University in the department of student growth and development.
At Penn State Beaver, Lancaster is responsible for the day-to-day operation of residence life, including implementation of disciplinary actions, supervision of a staff assistant and eight resident assistants, and coordination of programming and Residence Hall Advisory Counsel activities for the campus' two residence halls.
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Two new staff members have joined Career Services, a division of Student Affairs. Christina Eck MacGill has been named assistant director for programming and education career services, while Elizabeth Toepfer-Hendey has been named assistant director for counseling and planning.
MacGill replaces Catherine S. Dufour, who is now associate director for placement and programming. MacGill brings to the position more than 10 years of experience.
MacGill will manage the operation of the education credential service as well as outreach programming for all student groups. Annually, more than 21,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members are served through outreach programs.
Before coming to Penn State, MacGill was associate director of the Career Development Center at Bucknell University since 1994. Other experience includes director, Career Development Center from 1989 to 1994 and director, alumni and parent relations from 1985 to 1989, at Lycoming College in Williamsport.
In 1977, MacGill earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry from Lycoming College and a master's degree in education from Bucknell University in 1989. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in education from Penn State.
Toepfer-Hendey replaces Michael E. Hall who is now associate director of counseling and planning.
Most recently, Toepfer-Hendey's counseling experiences include director of counseling services at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., since 1994 and beginning in 1997 consultant for Regan and Associates, Silver Springs, Md.
Toepfer-Hendey also was peer services coordinator and career and personal counselor for the Office of Counseling and Psychological Services, Baruch College, City University of New York. Other counseling experiences include a psychology internship at the University of Maryland, advanced group colloquium coordinator and counseling trainee at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
Toepfer-Hendey has authored several publications and conducted a number of professional presentations and professional development activities. She also has experience in wilderness counseling and leadership, student affairs and research. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 1979. She earned both a master of education degree (1986) and a doctorate in education (1996) in counseling psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
