Appointments
Penn State Intercom......January
16, 2003
Chair named for Department
of Dermatology at Hershey
James Marks, professor of dermatology, has been named chair of the Department of Dermatology at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine.
Marks becomes the first official chair of the department, which, before July, had been a division of the Department of Medicine.
Marks assumes leadership of a department that provides a variety of high-level clinical services including: patch testing for skin allergies; advanced evaluation of hair and scalp disorders; interpretation of skin pathology; occupational dermatology; and acne research/treatment.
Marks is a board-certified dermatologist and a graduate of Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center.
Marks has served as interim chair of the department since July. Until recently, he also served as director of the department's residency program. He joined Hershey Medical Center and the College of Medicine as assistant professor of medicine in 1980 following a two-year stint as clinical instructor of dermatology at University of Texas Health Science Center and director of dermatology residency curriculum at Wilford Hall from 1978-80.
Roxanne C. Shiels to head
alumni outreach at University 
Roxanne C. Shiels has been appointed director of Alumni Outreach in Outreach and Cooperative Extension.
She will be responsible for connecting Penn State alumni with the University by linking them to existing and new programs in collaboration with the four major programming units of Outreach and Cooperative Extension: Continuing Education, Distance Education/World Campus, Public Broadcasting and Cooperative Extension. She also will develop a strategic vision and plan for Alumni Outreach.
The Alumni Outreach unit is a product of the partnership between Outreach and Cooperative Extension and the Penn State Alumni Association, which is designed to extend the University's educational resources to alumni and the public.
Shiels joins the University staff following five years with the ClearWater Conservancy in State College. From 1992 to 1997, she was a discipline and project manager and environmental scientist with Geo Decisions, a Division of Gannett Fleming Inc., working in Gannett Fleming's State College and Harrisburg offices. She also served as a research assistant with the School of Forest Resources for more than a year.
In 2000, she helped found the University's Environmental Resources Management Alumni Affiliate Program Group.
Shiels earned her bachelor of science degree in environmental resources management in 1990 and her master of science in hydrology in 1993, both from Penn State.
Assistant director appointed
in Budget and Finance 
Lori A. Stania has been appointed assistant director for Budget and Finance in Penn State Continuing Education, a division of Outreach and Cooperative Extension.
She is responsible for developing annual budgets, supervising Budget and Finance staff members in administering all financial and accounting activities and analyzing and approving proposed budgets for Continuing
Education programs. Stania also is handling all financial transactions for the unit, as well as supervising and training staff members in financial and accounting activities. The Budget and Finance office is part of Outreach Business and Finance.
Since 1997, Stania has served as associate treasurer for Associated Student Activities, part of the Office of Student Affairs. In this role, she supervised and controlled the operations of all registered student organizations' financial transactions. She also led a project to select new accounting software for the unit and assisted with its implementation.
From 1995 to 1997, she was a fiscal technician for the Centre County Housing Authority in Bellefonte. She also served as a fiscal assistant with the Mid-State Employment and Training Consortium in Bellefonte and as a purchasing agent for First Quality Hygienics in McElhattan.
Stania is adviser to the Penn State Eclipse Indoor Winter Guard. Since 1991, she has been a Pennsylvania certified emergency medical technician.
She earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting, with dual majors in accounting and office administration, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and currently is enrolled in the master of education in higher education degree program at Penn State.