Appointments

Undergraduate education names
vice provost and associate dean

Ingrid M. Blood, associate dean for undergraduate education in the Office of Undergraduate Education, has been promoted to associate vice provost and associate dean for Undergraduate Education.

Blood joined the faculty of the Department of Communication Disorders at Penn State in 1985. Since her appointment to the Office of Undergraduate Education in 1997, Blood has taken the lead in advancing new approaches and innovations in teaching and learning across the University, including the Summer Session, for which she has primary responsibility. Additionally, her involvement and guidance have been significant in the University's general education reform effort. During her tenure, she also has assumed the leadership of the University Learning Resource Centers.

Blood has received numerous distinguished fellowships and awards relating to the advancement of leadership, including selection as the 1994-95 Administrative Fellow; CIC Academic Leadership Program; and Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. She has been widely recognized in the field of communication disorders, has served on numerous editorial and advisory boards and has produced more than 50 publications.

Blood has a bachelor's double-major degree in communication sciences/disorders and reading instruction from Montclair State University and master's and doctoral degrees in communication disorders from Bowling Green State University.

Smeal names two to top posts

Marketing professor and specialist in social issues advertising Marvin E. Goldberg has been appointed interim dean of The Smeal College of Business Administration, effective Sept. 1. Edward T. Reutzel, a faculty member in the Department of Management Science & Information Systems of The Smeal College, has been appointed as the new senior associate dean.

J. D. Hammond announced last year that he was stepping down as dean to complete work on the structure and organization of two new centers; one in entrepreneurship and the other in venture capital management.

Goldberg, the Irving and Irene Bard professor of marketing, conducts research on the theoretical and practical aspects of advertising, especially the impact of advertising on children and on using the media to combat substance abuse among adolescents. His research has been covered in the national media, including CBS Evening News, The Wall Street Journal, and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.).

Before joining the Penn State faculty in 1991, Goldberg was on the management faculty at McGill University. Goldberg also has been a consultant for Baskin-Robbins, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the Ottawa health department and CBC-TV Sesame Street.

A native of Canada, Goldberg has degrees from the University of Illinois, McGill and Columbia universities.

Reutzel, an associate professor of management science, has previously served as the coordinator of the Smeal University Scholars program, was interim chair of the Department of Management Science & Information Systems during the fall semester in 1998 and currently is faculty coordinator of Smeal's innovative undergraduate Junior Core curriculum.

Reutzel has played an active role in The Smeal College's executive education programs, both as a faculty leader and as an academic program director. He earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Penn State.

A noted teacher at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels at Penn State, he has been a four-time recipient of an MBA Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition, he received the Fred Brand Jr. Award for his outstanding work in the undergraduate classroom.

Reutzel will succeed James B. Thomas on July 1. Thomas is stepping down to become dean of Penn State's new School of Information Sciences and Technology.

Faculty member becomes head of
electrical engineering department

W. Kenneth Jenkins has been named head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, in the College of Engineering, effective Sept. 1.

A member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1977, Jenkins served as a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He also was an honorary visiting professor at the University of York in the United Kingdom and a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Jenkins' professional industry experience includes working as a research scientist associate in the Communication Science Laboratory at Lockheed Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif., and spending a sabbatical leave at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Jenkins is a consultant for numerous government and corporate organizations, including the state of Illinois, the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, and Bell Laboratories.

He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1969, and his M.S. in 1971 and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Purdue University.

Associate dean appointed for
Information Sciences and Technology

Joseph M. Lambert, director of academic affairs for Penn State's computer science and engineering department since 1997, has been named associate dean of the University's new School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). The appointment is effective July 1.

Last month Penn State's Board of Trustees approved the appointment of James B. Thomas as dean of the new school (Intercom, May 6). Penn State's new School of Information Sciences and Technology will open this fall.

As associate dean, Lambert's responsibilities will include curricular and student affairs; administrative support on IST and University policies, procedures and organization; budget; human resources; facilities; and strategic planning. He also will ensure effective interaction between the school and the University as a whole, and will also deal with a wide variety of people and organizations outside the University.

In addition to his academic affairs director position, Lambert has been an associate professor of computer science and engineering in the College of Engineering since 1982. He also has served as head of the computer science and engineering department (1993-97), as the department's associate head (1991-93), as head of the computer science department (1982-91), as the department's acting head (1980-82), and as assistant dean for Commonwealth campuses and continuing education in the College of Science (1979-82).

Lambert joined Penn State in 1970 as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1970 and became an associate professor of mathematics in 1976. After a stint as visiting associate professor of mathematics at the University of Tennessee, he returned to Penn State in 1978 as an associate professor of mathematics.

A graduate of Drexel University with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, Lambert has a master's degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, both in mathematics.

Graduate School chooses
professor as associate dean

Richard H. Yahner, chair of the intercollege graduate degree program in ecology and professor of wildlife conservation in the School of Forest Resources, has been named associate dean for student affairs of the Graduate School, effective July 1. Yahner will assume leadership for and administration of programs and initiatives that improve quality and diversity in graduate education.

The position encompasses professional development for academic and non-academic careers, student retention and mentoring, responsible conduct and research ethics, conflict resolution for individual student/faculty concerns, promotion of graduate training grant initiatives, postdoctoral appointments and career development issues, graduate faculty membership and representation of the Graduate School on various University organizations involving outreach and international programs.

Yahner joined Penn State as an assistant professor in 1981 and previously served as assistant director of Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Forest Resources in 1992-94. He is chair of the University Program Review and Assessment Committee and is an active member of numerous other committees and councils. He has written more than 200 papers, book chapter and books; and has given scores of presentations on his research on ecology, conservation and habitat management practices.

Yahner holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Penn State, a master's degree in zoology from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in zoology from Ohio University