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Grant Recipients 2008 - 2009
Dr. Jan Dreachslin, Professor of Health Policy and Administration, is serving as lead investigator of a major research project for the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) looking into the role diversity initiatives play in organizational performance, including culturally and linguistically appropriate patient care. The three-year research project is made possible through a $500,000 grant from Sodexho.
Dr. Kathryn Jablokow, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a two-year research grant of $252,000 from Astra-Zeneca on enhancing problem-solving performance across the pharmaceutical industry. She also had two other grants at this time – Tracking and Assessment of Technologies and Technology Education from PJM Interconnection, LLC for $48,500, and Video Programming to Support Creativity Education and Research for $22,000 from the PSU Outreach Thematic Initiative Fund: PreK-12 Education.
Dr. Daeil Nam, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, has received a $5,200 grant by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to research the risk-return relation, based on a managerial evidence from national R&D funding projects. NIST’s mission is “to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.” NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. The America COMPETES Act (PL 110-69, signed on Aug. 9, 2007) supports this program.
Dr. Colin Neill, Associate Professor of Software Engineering, received the Penn State Great Valley Outstanding Teaching Award for 2009 at Commencement.
Dr. Robin Qiu, Associate Professor of Information Science, was awarded a grant for his research in Service Enterprise Engineering by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. David W. Russell, Professor of Electrical Engineering, received the 2008 Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ James Clayton Travel Award in the amount of $2,000.
Dr. Raghu Sangwan, Associate Professor of Software Engineering
December 2009. Requirements and Architectures for Secure Systems, Network and Security Research Center & Ben Franklin Partnership. $11,360. Co-PI.
May 2008. Faculty Research and Scholarship Award, School of Graduate Professional Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
Sabbatical and Visiting Professor Awards 2008 - 2009
Dr. Raghu Sangwan, Associate Professor of Software Engineering, was appointed Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon.
Academic, Teaching, and Service Awards 2008 - 2009
Dr. Janet Duck, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, has received the Outstanding Faculty Award at the conclusion of the iMBA’s Term 8 Residency. This award recognizes her dedication and valuable contributions to the iMBA Program.
Dr. Dolores Fidishun, Librarian, Penn State Libraries; Head Librarian, Penn State Great Valley Library, has been selected as the 2008 winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women's Studies Section (WSS) Career Achievement Award. The award, sponsored by Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., honors significant long-standing contributions to women's studies in the field of librarianship over the course of a career.
Dr. Phillip Laplante, Professor of Software Engineering, was awarded the Golden Core Award “for long-standing member service to the society,” IEEE Computer Society, Jan. 2009. He was also awarded the Award of Merit, “In recognition of his service to, and support of, the IEEE Computer Society in its mission to enhance the technical leadership and services provided to the world’s computing professionals,” The New York Chapter, IEEE Computer Society, Dec. 2008.
Dr. Kimberly Merriman, Assistant Professor of Management & Organization, received a monetary award to produce a Penn State Equal Opportunity Planning Committee funded program to foster diversity at Penn State: "Enhancing Multi-Cultural Competencies for International Human Resource Management," with Dr. Denise Potosky.
Dr. Denise Potosky, Associate Professor of Management and Organization, received a 2009 Outstanding Reviewer award from the Organization Behavior (OB) Division of the Academy of Management. She also received the 2009 Arthur L. Glenn Award for Faculty Innovation. In 2008, she produced a Penn State Equal Opportunity Planning Committee funded program to foster diversity at Penn State: "Enhancing Multi-Cultural Competencies for International Human Resource Management," with Dr. Kimberly Merriman.
Dr. Robin Qiu, Associate Professor of Information Science, was given the IBM Faculty Award recognizing his last several years’ efforts of promoting Service Science worldwide.
Dr. Mary Catherine Scheeler, Associate Professor of Special Education, received the Penn State Great Valley Outstanding Teaching Award for 2008 at Commencement. She also received the TED Publication Award in 2007.