Appointments
Penn State Intercom......March
29, 2001
Warren named director of
Farrell Center for Entrepreneurship
Anthony C. Warren is joining The Smeal College of Business Administration as director of the Farrell Center for Entrepreneurship and as the Farrell Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship.
Warren will guide the teaching and practice of entrepreneurship as well as relationships with the entrepreneurship and venture capital communities, and direct the advancement of research in that area. He will assume his new responsibilities on May 1.
Pittsburgh businessman Michael J. Farrell, president and CEO of Farrell and Co., and his wife, Christine, have committed a total of $4 million to endow the Farrell Center and Chair of Entrepreneurship. The endowment created by the Farrells' gift will support graduate and faculty research, in addition to the operations of the center.
Last year, Warren formed Strategic Technologies LLC, a boutique investment bank in Princeton, N.J., for technology-rich companies seeking to sell part or all of their assets. In 1987, he started TMF LP, a venture firm making investments in "seed-stage" firms receiving equity for structuring corporate partnering contracts. In addition, he also is a venture partner with Adams Capital Management, a nationwide early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Pittsburgh.
Warren received a bachelor's degree and doctorate in physics from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. After postdoctoral work at the Universities of Toronto and Illinois, he returned to Europe to undertake research on electrical power generation before joining an embryonic consulting firm, PA Technology, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he stayed for 17 years.
He taught physics at the University of Toronto, and contributed to master of business administration courses at Columbia and New York University as well as the outreach programs at Penn State, Rutgers University, University of Maryland and SUNY. He has published extensively in the scientific, technical and business media.
College of Health, Human Development
appoints associate dean 
Karl M. Newell, professor and head of the Department of Kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Development, has been named the college's associate dean for research and graduate education effective July 1.
Newell has been a faculty member with the University since 1992 and became head of the Department of Kinesiology in 1993. Before that, he was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 19 years. During his tenure at Illinois, Newell served in various capacities, including head of the Department of Kinesiology from 1985 to 1992.
Over the course of his academic career, Newell's research has focused on motor learning and control approached from a broad life-span perspective. This work has evolved over the years into an interdisciplinary endeavor that melds concepts from psychology, neurophysiology and physics to investigate the roles of information and dynamics in the regulation of movement in physical activity. He has published his findings in six books, nearly 70 book chapters and nearly 150 journal articles.
He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, a Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education and a past recipient of the Senior Scholar Award from the North American Society for Psychology and Sport Activity.
Newell received his certificate of education from the University of Nottingham and his diploma (First Class Honors) from the Loughborough College of Education in 1967. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in physical education from the University of Illinois in 1970 and 1973, respectively.
Director appointed for
International Education Programs
John M. Keller has been named director of InternationalEducation Programs and Studies (traditionally known as study abroad) in the University Office of International Programs (UOIP).
From 1991-1998, Keller was the associate director of the University's Australia-New Zealand Studies Center, a unit of the Intercollege Research Program. In July 1998 he joined UOIP as faculty Fulbright adviser, public affairs coordinator and executive editor of the twice-yearly publication, International Mosaic. Keller also teaches communications in the College of Health and Human Development and edits Marquee, the newsletter for the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management.
Before coming to the University, Keller spent 28 years in international public affairs as a diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service. He managed public affairs programs for American diplomatic and consular missions in Italy, Vietnam, Malaysia, Zaire, Jamaica and Australia. He also worked at the White House as public affairs coordinator in the Office of Drug Abuse Policy.