Appointments
Penn State Intercom......March
15, 2001
Associate director joins
Smeal
College of Business Administration
Frederick T. Houlihan has been named the associate director of Information Systems and Operations for The Smeal College of Business Administration. Houlihan is joining the Research, Instruction and Information Technologies Group in the college after a 30-year career with IBM and as an IT consultant to several major financial organizations.
In his new role, Houlihan will be responsible for implementing new technology initiatives and providing leadership to academic and program units of the college to translate technology objectives into strategic plans and system development across the college.
From 1984 through 1991, Houlihan led IBM's Penn State systems engineering technical support team for campus computing and networking. Houlihan retired from IBM in 1995 and was a consultant to The Vanguard Group investment services Web Release Engineering Group before joining the University.
Safety and Police supervisor
named at Penn State McKeesport 
Penn State McKeesport has named Glen Ellyn Reid as supervisor of Safety and Police Services.
Reid served eight years as a military police officer based at Fort Steward, Ga., where she wasattached to the Criminal Investigation Detachment Command and worked in undercover narcotics and narcotics-related homicides.
Her experience includes service in industry security with Xerox Corp., Webster N.Y., and SBI Security, Pittsburgh, as well as with the University of Rochester campus police services and the Borough of Homestead municipal police.
Reid has a bachelor's degree in public administration from Point Park College and is pursuing a law degree at Duquesne University.
Director appointed to
Undergraduate Fellowships Office
Vivienne J. Wildes has been appointed director of the Undergraduate Fellowships Office in the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education.
Wildes replaces H. Mary Gage who recently retired.
As director, Wildes will oversee and encourage qualified University students to apply for prestigious national scholarships and fellowships.
Before coming to the University, Wildes was the founder and executive director of the National Waiters Association. She also was director of personnel at The Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Va. In 1992, she joined the University's School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, where she is currently an affiliate assistant professor.
Wildes holds a bachelor of arts, a master of science and a doctorate from Penn State and a certificate of African-American Studies from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
New coordinator of external
relations named by college
S. William Hessert Jr. has been named as coordinator of external relations for the College of Health and Human Development.
Hessert will coordinate the college's external relations program including publications, media relations, electronic communications and other strategic communications. He will be the editor of the college's alumni magazine and serve as a liaison with academic unit heads, alumni, development officers, outreach staff and student services personnel in the college.
Hessert was manager of grant relations for the Commonwealth College. This position included most public information functions for the college. Hessert's journalism and public relations experience also includes serving as executive editor of the Pennsylvania Business Central and State College, the magazine, from 1997 to 1999.
Hessert completed an undergraduate degree in accounting from Lycoming College in 1985. In 1995, he received his master's degree in journalism from Temple University. Hessert is a board member of the Penn State Faculty Staff Club, a member of the executive committee and chairman of the promotions committee.
Joseph Lambert appointed
as IST's senior associate dean
Joseph M. Lambert, who helped lead the launching and development of the School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has been named the school's senior associate dean.
In 1999, Lambert became the first associate dean of IST, after having played an instrumental role in the creation of the school's curriculum, programs and infrastructure. Since then, he has acted as IST's chief budget officer and serves as chair of the committee overseeing the design and construction of the school's new building, slated for completion in 2003.
He coordinates IST undergraduate programs at University Park and the 18 other University locations where they are offered. In addition to other duties, he is chief liaison with other University units collaborating in joint IST minors.
Lambert has served as head of the Department Computer Science and Engineering and was head and associate head of the Department of Computer Science before that. Immediately before being named IST's associate dean, he was director of academic affairs for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. For three years, he was assistant dean for commonwealth campuses and continuing education with the Eberly College of Science.
Lambert joined the faculty in 1970 as an assistant professor of mathematics and in 1976 was promoted to associate professor. In 1979, he was named assistant dean in the Eberly College and served in that capacity until 1982, leading the college's commonwealth campus and continuing education initiatives. During the latter two years of that period, Lambert also was acting head of computer science.
After returning from a year as a visiting professor at Cornell University, he was formally selected head of the Department of Computer Science in 1982 and was named an associate professor of computer science and mathematics.
Pennsylvania State Data Center
appoints new director
Sue Copella is the new director of the Pennsylvania State Data Center located at Penn State Harrisburg.
A member of the Data Center staff since 1990, Copella was most recently its manager of sponsored research. In that position, she served as project director on a number of sponsored research projects and continues to serve as the Commonwealth's representative to the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates and the Federal-State Cooperative Program for Population Projections. She also is the state's representative to the Census Bureau on issues related to the 2000 Census.
Copella worked in urban and regional planning-related agencies prior to joining the University and holds a bachelor's degree in urban studies and geography from the University of Pittsburgh.
Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley
names Continuing Ed employee
Greg Lenhart recently joined the Continuing Education team as an area representative at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley.
He will be responsible for building relationships with area businesses to market Continuing Education technology classes as well as assist in Information Technology course development.
Before his appointment, Lenhart resided in Apopka, Fla., where he was director of Lenhart Systems, a consulting business specializing in hardware and software resolutions. Before that, he was operations manager for T.D. Waterhouse in Orlando.
A graduate of the University, Lenhart received his bachelor of arts in labor and industrial relations, and is currently working on his master's degree in counseling psychology.
Internship placement coordinator
named at Lehigh Valley
Penn State Lehigh Valley College recently hired Chris Pfautz as the coordinator of placement and internships.
He will work to facilitate internships and job placements for Lehigh Valley students.
Pfautz previously worked as a counselor at Craven Community College in
New Bern, N.C.
He is currently working on his doctorate in higher education from North Carolina State University. He holds a master of arts in counselor education and a bachelor of social work from East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.