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Penn State Intercom......August 29, 2002

The Students in Free Enterprise recently recognized Jacqueline Fowler, coordinator of student organizations in The Smeal College of Business Administration, for her leadership as an adviser for the University Park team. She received the "Sam Walton Fellowship" from the organization.

Dennis Gioia, professor of organizational behavior, discussed the current spate of corporate scandals at a special Academy of Management "Presidential Blue Ribbon Panel" during the academy's 2002 meeting in Denver. Gioia's remarks focused on higher education's role in the current corporate environment and what business schools might do to help prevent future ethical meltdowns.

Rangachar Kasturi, professor of computer science and engineering, was elected president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, which is an association of nonprofit, scientific organizations in pattern recognition, computer vision and image processing. Kasturi's term runs through 2004.

Robert W. Koehler, associate professor emeritus of accounting in The Smeal College of Business Administration, received an Outstanding Faculty Adviser Award from Beta Alpha Psi, the National Honors Fraternity for Financial Information Professionals. Koehler was honored at the group's annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Lyle Long, professor of aerospace engineering, has been named editor-in-chief of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication. Long, who also is a fellow of the institute, will serve in the post through 2006.

The University and College Designers Association has presented an Award of Excellence to the Penn State Outreach Marketing team for a coordinated series of invitation pieces for the celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the birth of public broadcasting at Penn State. Tara Tallman, graphic designer, and Ryan Badowski, marketing associate, both with Outreach Marketing, led the project team, with assistance from Tracey D. Huston, director of the Office of Outreach Communications, and Brian Heckman, marketing assistant with Outreach Marketing.

Marianne Sommer has been awarded the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Program (SMTC) at Penn State. She received the award for her work in the cultural history of paleoanthropology.

Chunshan Song, associate professor of fuel science, delivered the keynote address on "New approaches to deep desulfurization for ultra-clean gasoline and diesel fuels: an overview" at the 224th North American Catalysis Society meeting held in Boston. Song, who recently had been included as a member of the Scientific Committee of the group, will be the program chair of the Fuel Chemistry Division for the spring meeting to be held in New Orleans and the fall 2003 meeting to be held in New York.

Faculty members in the Department of Management and Organization in The Smeal College of Business received a number of awards for their research during the Academy of Management "2002 Meeting" in Denver. The Academy of Management is the leading professional association of scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. Linda K. Treviño, professor of management and organizational behavior and Chair of the Department of Management and Organization, received the "2002 Best Paper" award in the Social Issues in Management Division for "Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethical Leadership: Development of an Instrument." The paper was co-authored with Michael Brown, assistant professor at Penn State Erie. Philip Cochran, director of the Center for the Study of Business and Public Issues, was the recipient of the Sumner Marcus Award, which honors an individual who has made substantial and significant contributions to the division and to the field of social issues in management/business and society. Ann Echols, assistant professor of strategic management, was named "Outstanding Reviewer" for the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy. Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chair of management, took home "Best Paper in Academy of Management Executive" honors for the paper, "Are You Sure You Have a Strategy?" He co-authored the paper with James Fredrickson of the University of Texas at Austin. David A. Harrison, professor of organizational behavior, received the "2002 Best Paper" award from Sage Publications and the Research Methods Division for a paper titled, "Top Manager Responses to Organization Surveys: When Questioning Executives, are Networks the Answer?" He co-authored it with Cynthia Cycyota of the University of Texas, Arlington. In addition, for the third year in a row, Harrison was named "2001-2002 Outstanding Reviewer" for his work on the Academy of Management Journal Editorial Board. Wenpin Tsai, assistant professor of management, received recognition for his work on the Academy of Management Journal editorial board. He received a "2001-2002 Outstanding Reviewer" at the journal award for the second year in a row, and he was award a Business Policy and Strategy division "Outstanding Reviewer" honor. Only three AMJ Outstanding Reviewer Awards were given from a board of more than 80; two of those went to Smeal faculty in the Management & Organization department. Another paper, "Recognition and Reconciliation of Differences in Interpretation of Misalignments when Collaborative Technologies are Introduced into New Product Development Teams," was recognized in the "Best Paper Proceedings." It is co-authored by Gerald Susman, the Robert and Judith Klein professor of management and director of the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change; Barbara Gray, professor of organizational behavior and director of the Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation; John Perry, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management and Organization; and Candace Blair, a doctoral candidate in industrial and organizational psychology.

The World Road Association, which facilitates the international exchange of knowledge and techniques on roads and transportation, recently selected Penn State University Libraries' Engineering Library as the U.S. representative for a worldwide project on road information. The University's selection was based on its strong civil engineering program, large student body, excellent reputation in transportation engineering, good library system with quality networking capabilities and inclusion of an active transportation librarian on staff.

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