Appointments
Penn State Intercom......March
21, 2002
Chairman named for Smeal's
Department of Accounting
Dan Givoly, an authority on accounting and financial reporting, will become the new chairman of the Department of Accounting in The Smeal College of Business of Administration.
Givoly is professor of accounting at the University of California at Irvine's Graduate School of Management and a former chairman of the Financial Standards Accounting Board in Israel. He will assume his new duties at the beginning of the coming academic year.
Givoly has been a faculty member of Northwestern University, Columbia University, Carnegie-Mellon University and a faculty member and chairman of the Accounting Department at Tel-Aviv University.
Givoly's research areas include the effects of financial disclosure on stock prices and the quality and information content of accounting numbers.
Givoly holds a doctoral degree in business administration from New York University and a master of business administration from Tel-Aviv University.
Associate dean named in
College of Agricultural Sciences 
Bruce McPheron, professor of entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, has been named associate dean for research and graduate education and director of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station.
McPheron's research in insect molecular ecology has focused on population genetics, the genetics of insecticide resistance and the genetic history of insect incursions into new geographic areas.
McPheron has taught undergraduate and graduate entomology courses and has mentored 15 graduate students and four postdoctoral scholars.
McPheron joined the University in 1988 as an assistant professor of entomology. He became associate professor in 1994 and attained the rank of full professor in 2000. Since 2000, he also has served in an administrative role while on special assignment in the Office of Research and Graduate Education, where he has addressed issues of intellectual property management; federal, state and university accountability; and industry relations.
Before coming to the University, McPheron was a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University, a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois and a county extension agent for 4-H and youth development in Clermont County, Ohio.
He earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture with a concentration in entomology from Ohio State University. He received his master's degree in biology and his doctorate in entomology from the University of Illinois.
Several new staff members
added to Smeal College
Several additions have been named to The Smeal College of Business Administration.
Brian Barton is director of marketing; and Michele "Mitch" Kirsch is the director of admissions in the MBA program. J. Edward Ketz is now interim managing director of the MBA program and Robin Stevens was promoted to director of corporate relations after serving as interim director since July 1.
As director of marketing, Barton's primary responsibilities will include developing and executing the overall marketing strategy for Smeal College. His background includes 15-plus years of corporate marketing experiences with companies such as Procter and Gamble, Nestle, Rubbermaid and a B2B Internet start-up.
Kirsch will join the college effective March 18. For the past five years, she has served as the assistant director of admissions and customer services for the University's Undergraduate Admissions Office. Before that, she was the director of admissions and financial aid at Indiana University's Graduate School of Business. She also served as assistant director of the school's MBA program. Kirsch received her bachelor of arts from Westminster College, her master's degree from Indiana University and her doctoral degree from Drake University in Des Moines.
Ketz, faculty director of the MBA program, is the interim managing director of the program. He is associate professor of accounting.
In her role as director of corporate relations, Stevens is primarily responsible for creating and maintaining multifaceted strategic relationships with corporations to benefit the goals of the college and create linkages between corporations, students and faculty. Her responsibilities involve the management of three areas: the Internship Program, the Office of Student Organizations and the Corporate Associates Program. She also serves as director of internships and cooperative education.
Director of state relations
appointed in Government Affairs 
Michael DiRaimo has joined the Office of Governmental Affairs as director of state relations.
In his new role, DiRaimo represents the University in Harrisburg on a broad range of state issues. He monitors, interprets and analyzes legislative initiatives impacting the University. DiRaimo reports to the special assistant to the president for governmental affairs.
DiRaimo received both his bachelor of arts degree and master's degree in history at Penn State. He has spent most of his career working in and around state government; first as a legislative aide in the state General Assembly, then as a lobbyist -- most recently for the Pittsburgh Public Schools.
Before joining the University, DiRaimo headed new school development for a private education management company.
Lehrman to be new director
of Office of Affirmative Action
Kenneth Lehrman III, director of the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity at the University of Oregon, has been named the director of Affirmative Action and the Diversity Support and Education Center, effective July 1. He replaces Bonnie Ortiz, who retired.
Lehrman has served as the director of AAO/EO at the University of Oregon since 1993; before that, he was a human-rights investigator for the office from 1990 to 1993. In addition, he has served as a consultant to general counsel for review of affirmative action programs at the University of Utah and as a special consultant to the president for affirmative action for Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore.
At the University of Oregon, Lehrman participated in new-employee orientation, supervision training, sexual harassment training and Title IX compliance in Intercollegiate Athletics. He also briefs all search committees on the principles of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. In addition, he worked closely with the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities, and served ex-officio on the Status of Women and the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgendered Committees to promote diversity in all areas of campus life.
A graduate of Louis E. Dieruff High School in Allentown, Lehrman earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in public administration, both from University of Oklahoma, and a juris doctor degree in law and a doctorate in political science, both from the University of Oregon.
He also has been a tenured faculty member at Ithaca College, an adjunct faculty member at Russell Sage College and Southern Oregon State College, and has taught classes on constitutional law at the University of Oregon.
Penn State Abington gets
director of professional internships 
Carol-Anne Minski has been named director of professional internships at Penn State Abington.
This new internship office will serve students enrolled in the business, information sciences and technology, psychological and social sciences, and administration of justice bachelor's degree programs.
For the past three years, Minski worked as career development and internship coordinator at Penn State Delaware County. She also developed the Career Advancement Center at Penn State Great Valley and has taught management courses, career development courses and a variety of skills workshops for colleges and businesses.
Minski holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the Philadelphia University and a master's degree from Arcadia University.
Debbie Hoy named news
producer at WPSU radio station
Debbie Hoy has joined radio station WPSU as a news producer. The move is part of the addition of locally produced newscasts during the station's regular weekday program schedule. Hoy will be heard at 6:06, 7:06 and 8:06 a.m. during National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" program.
Hoy most recently was heard on State College AM station WRSC. She has worked for radio stations in New York, Virginia, Maryland and New Mexico.
WPSU-FM can be heard at 91.5 in Central Pennsylvania, 106.7 in Altoona, 90.1 in Northern Pennsylvania, 100.9 in Bradford, 95.1 in Treasure Lake, 104.7 in Clearfield, 92.3 in Huntingdon, and 92.1 in DuBois. WPSU also can be heard online at http://wpsu.psu.edu.