Awards
Penn State Intercom......April
3, 2003
Commission pays tribute to
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outstanding University women
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The Commission for Women honored seven Achieving Women Award winners and the recipient of the Rosemary Schraer Award for mentoring at its annual banquet on the University Park campus.
Eva J. Pell, vice president for Research and dean of The Graduate School, was named the Schraer Award honoree. The award, created in memory of Rosemary Schraer, former associate provost for Penn State, honors a current University employee who has excelled in helping others to recognize and achieve their potential professionally and personally. Pell, who was recognized for her mentoring capabilities, spoke of Schraer and others who had been her inspiration and mentors.
The Achieving Women Awards recognize women who have achieved and excelled at Penn State and in their communities. Faculty, exempt and nonexempt staff, administrators, technical service employees, graduate and undergraduate students at all University locations are eligible to receive the award.
The awardees are:
* Lori J. Bechtel, professor andhead of biobehavioral health, Penn State Altoona;
* Patricia G. Hayes, manager of Library Information Services in the Applied Research Laboratory;
* Chris Koleno, editorial assistant, Intercom, Department of Public Information;
* Debbie Korman, food preparer, McElwain Hall, Housing and Food Services;
* Debbie Meder, assistant controller and director, financial officers, Office of Corporate Controller;
* Melissa Stein, junior, elementary and kindergarten education, College of Education; and
* Ozgur Tunceli, graduate student in agricultural, environmental and regional economics, College of Agricultural Sciences.
The theme for the banquet was "En-Titled: Celebrating 30 Years of Title IX." The keynote speaker, Rayla J. Allison, an attorney who specializes in representing female athletes and Title IX issues, presented a brief history of the law and summed up the advances women have made as a result of Title IX.
3 at Smeal named
Brand
Award recipients
Gus Colangelo, Raeshel Ziegler and Patricia Wollan have been named 2002-2003 Fred Brand Jr. Award recipients for The Smeal College of Business Administration.
The awards annually recognize excellence in teaching and advising in the college.
Colangelo, recipient of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, joined Smeal in 1999 after a more than 20-year managerial and executive career. He is an assistant professor of management, program manager for the Mitte Foundation Scholarship, which provides funds for 60 undergraduate and 15 master of business administration scholarships every year, and director of Smeal's First-Year Seminar Program.
Ziegler, recipient of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, is an academic counselor for Undergraduate Programs. She advises a caseload of about 200 freshmen and sophomores from Smeal. Ziegler also advises all freshman and sophomore Schreyer and Mitte Scholars in the college, serves as co-coordinator of the Smeal Spring Commencement and teaches the first-year seminar.
Wollan, recipient of the Award for Excellence as a graduate teaching assistant, was accepted as a Smeal doctoral candidate in 1999. Her thesis examines the impact of deregulation on the structure and governance of electric utilities. Wollan, who also has acted as Smeal's representative to the Graduate Student Association, has accepted a tenure-track position in the Finance and Accounting Department at Rochester Institute of Technology for next fall.
25-YEAR AWARDS
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Observing 25 years of service at the University are, from left, Linda J. Altamura, staff assistant VI in College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; Carol L. Everett, associate director in the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment; and Kelly O. Henry, writer/editor and alumni coordinator in College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; second row: Mary Jane Irwin, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering in College of Engineering; Shawn Ruffner, drafter I in Office of Physical Plant; and Joy L. Struble, assistant coordinator, contracts and grants management in Applied Research Laboratory. Observing 25 years of service at the University but not pictured is William C. Ahlberg, senior designer, electromechanical in Applied Research Laboratory.