Awards
Penn State Intercom......February 15, 2001

Smeal College faculty
and staff receive honors

The Smeal College of Business Administration is recognizing some members of its faculty and staff for their efforts in teaching and advising.

The 2000-2001 Fred Brand Jr. Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising will be presented to:

* Abdullah Yavas, associate professor of business administration, will receive the Undergraduate Teaching Award.

* Torsten Ringberg, a doctoral candidate, is being recognized with the Graduate Student Teaching Award.

* Jocelyn Bennett, coordinator of minority affairs and undergraduate student programs, will receive the Undergraduate Advising Award.

The awards are named in honor of Fred Brand Jr., who graduated from Penn State in 1932 with a degree in commerce and finance. He was a successful insurance executive, a director for the Allegheny General Hospital and chairman of the Western Pennsylvania Heart Fund. He died in 1998.

Penn State Fayette
staffer lauded for service

Patty Zebrasky, nursing staff assistant, was recently awarded the 2000 Support Services Excellence Award at Penn State Fayette.

Zebrasky has worked at Penn State Fayette for more than 28 years, serving the students, faculty and staff as the Student Affairs assistant, and most recently, as staff assistant in the Penn State Fayette Nursing Department.

Zebrasky is the primary campus sexual harassment resource person, facilitator for one of two current campus Continuous Quality Improvement teams and is a member of the campus Legislative Advocacy Network team, the Annual Women's Day on campus committee and the campus Safety/Security Committee.

She has represented Penn State Fayette at high school visits and college fairs, presented workshops at regional and state leadership conferences and arranged/presented sexual harassment seminars for campus faculty and staff.

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