Appointments
Penn State Intercom......May 24, 2001
Associate
dean named
in College of Education
Robert
Hendrickson, professor of higher education, has been named associate dean
for graduate studies, research and faculty development in the College
of Education, effective July 1. Hendrickson has served for the past seven
years as head of the college's Department of Education Policy Studies.
Hendrickson received his bachelor's degree from North Dakota State University, a master's degree in education (student personnel administration), and a doctorate in higher education with a minor in law from Indiana University. His areas of expertise include legal aspects of higher education and organization and administration theory in higher education. He has published numerous articles in a number of journals, chapters in books and co-authored three monographs. He also authored a book on legal aspects of higher education that is in its second edition.
Hendrickson is involved actively in the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the Education Law Association and the American Educational Research Association, Division J. He also is on the editorial boards of several journals and the Board of Directors of the Education Law Association.
As associate dean, Hendrickson will work to increase the external funding coming in for research; foster collaborative research projects across programs within the college; encourage faculty of the college to get more involved in the research agenda of the Consortium on Children, Youth and Family; continue to strengthen the college's graduate programs; and carefully assess assistantships and fellowships in the graduate program to make sure the college is competitive with other leading institutions throughout the country.
Professorship endowed to study
inflammatory bowel disease
Walter A. Koltun was named the Peter and Marshia Carlino professor in inflammatory bowel disease at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Koltun, associate professor of surgery, is an expert in inflammatory bowel disease and surgical diseases of the colon and rectum. This endowed faculty position was created with a $500,000 gift from Peter and Marshia Carlino of Reading.
Koltun joined the faculty of The College of Medicine in 1990. He has conducted research into inflammatory bowel disease for the past 10 years. Because of his contributions, he was named chief of the Department of Surgery's recently created Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Koltun also has a patient registry for the disease.
Inflammatory bowel disease is the collective name for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, serious chronic inflammatory disorders of the intestinal tract, that primarily strikes in the third decade of life but can also show up later in life. The cause is unknown and it can be fatal if untreated. The symptoms can be controlled with medication, but there is no cure.
Peter Carlino, a 1969 University graduate, is chairman and chief executive officer of Penn National Gaming Inc., which owns and operates casinos, racetracks and off-track wagering facilities. He is a member of the board of directors of The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and also has served on the board of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.
Smeal College appoints new
chair for management science
W. David Kelton has been named chair of the Department of Management Science and Information Systems in The Smeal College of Business Administration.
He will assume his new responsibilities on Aug. 17.
Kelton is currently professor of quantitative analysis and operations management in the University of Cincinnati's College of Business Administration, where he teaches courses in simulation, operations research and statistics.
Kelton's research interests and publications are in the probabilistic and statistical aspects of simulation, applications of simulation, statistical quality control and stochastic models. He has consulted for NASA and numerous other companies and organizations.
His papers have appeared in several journals and he is editor-in-chief for the INFORMS Journal on Computing.
He is co-author of the book Simulation Modeling and Analysis, as well as Simulation with Arena, which received McGraw-Hill's award for "Most Successful New Title in 1998" and has been translated into Japanese and Korean.
He received a bachelor of arts in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master of science in mathematics from Ohio University and a master of science and doctoral degrees in industrial engineering from Wisconsin.
Attorney appointed
Maurice K. Goddard professor of forestry
Robert McKinstry, an attorney specializing in environmental law and litigation, has been selected as the new Maurice K. Goddard professor of forestry and environmental resource conservation in the College of Agricultural Sciences.
He will begin his three-year term on July 1.
McKinstry will spend half of his time on public outreach and policy, while teaching and carrying out special projects.
McKinstry is a partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP in Philadelphia, where he is the co-founder and co-partner in charge of the firm's 24-lawyer Environmental Practice Group. His work involves issues related to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (commonly known as Superfund), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and parallel state laws.
McKinstry has devoted his practice exclusively to environmental law since completing a two-year judicial clerkship in 1981. He was the first joint-degree candidate at Yale's School of Law and its School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, receiving a juris doctorate and master of forestry science in 1979.
Department head named in
Materials Science and Engineering
Gary L. Messing, professor of ceramic science and engineering, has been named head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, effective July 1.
He joined Penn State in 1980, was promoted to professor in 1989 and became director of the Materials Research Laboratory in 1997.
Messing has published more than 210 papers and co-edited 10 books on various aspects of ceramic processing. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sol Gel Science and Technology.
Messing has received numerous awards for his work in ceramic processing. He is president-elect of the American Ceramic Society and is a member of the Materials Research Society and the American Chemical Society.
Messing received his bachelor of science degree in ceramic engineering at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and his doctoral degree in materials science and engineering at the University of Florida.