Art Wyatt, faculty and alumnus, receiving the Commerce appreciation Award.
At the Spring Luncheon, alumni and friends of the college gather to recognize excellence in teaching and alumni achievements. At the Awards Banquet, over 200 student scholarships and fellowships and numerous teaching awards are recognized.
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Art Wyatt, faculty and alumnus, receiving the Commerce appreciation Award. |
The Commerce Alumni Association sponsors four Excellence-in-Teaching Awards. Each year the recipients are recognized at the Spring Luncheon in Chicago and at the Commerce Awards Banquet on campus. A generous cash award, funded by the Commerce Alumni Association, accompanies these awards. Winners of these awards, the college's most prestigious, are selected by the college educational policy committee after careful review of nominations. |
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José Antonio Rosa, assistant professor of business administration, was recognized for undergraduate teaching. Students report that although he teaches a large class (500 students), he manages to infuse a great deal of "life" into the class, partly by his use of multi-media presentations. Rosa joined the marketing faculty in 1992 after several years in the business world. That valuable work experience has translated into powerful examples in his course. Rosa earned a doctorate and master's at the University of Michigan, and MBA at Dartmouth, and a BIA at General Motors Institute. |
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Ann Villamil, associate professor of economics, won the graduate teaching award. She has helped revise the macro-economic theory core in the economics doctoral program and served as co-captain of the MBA Curriculum Committee credited with re-engineering the Illinois MBA. Students praise her enthusiasm, energy, knowledge, dedication, and ability to integrate theory and real world experience. Villamil joined the college in 1988 after earning a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota (B.A., Rochester). |
Leann Mischel, doctoral candidate in the organizational behavior group in business administration, and Munir Mahmud, a doctoral candidate in economics, both won the teaching awards reserved for teaching assistants. Mischel expects to finish her degree in the spring of 1997. Mahud, received his degree last May.
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 Munir Mahmud |
There are two other college-wide awards -- the Outstanding Executive and Professional Development Award and the Emerson Cammack Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduates.
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Kent Monroe, the J.M. Jones Professor of Marketing and head of the Department of Business Administration, won the Outstanding Executive and Professional Development award for his contributions to executive education in the college. |
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Morgan J. Lynge, professor and head of finance, received the Emerson Cammack Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduates in recognition of the excellent service he performed while Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, 1990-1995. |
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| Each semester students are asked to complete a questionnaire about their courses and faculty. The information is used to create An Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students. The spring 1996 list reflects data collected for fall 1995 courses. Commerce faculty and teaching assistants on the list are: | |||
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| Accountancy Jon S. Davis Ralph Goodwin Don Kleinmuntz Thomas Linsmeier Jane Morton H. M. Schoenfeld Thomas Sternburg Arthur Wyatt |
Business Administration Diana Hatko Richard Hill Forest Jourden Carol Kulik Greg Northcraft Greg Oldham Matt Pratt Thomas Roehl |
Economics Lee Alston Richard Arnould Anil Bera Jan Brueckner John Conley Viktoria Dalko Larry DeBrock Shane Greenstein |
Tom Krebs Jane Leuthold Walter McMahon Robert Resek Steven Williams Finance |
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| Accountancy Michael Izatt Kevin Metke Jeff Varblow Business |
Catherine Cross (Law) Anne Cummings Margaret Fitzpatrick (Law) Hans Lapping (Law) Leann Mischel Al Muniz Louis Peasley Rajneesh Suri Kraig Washburn |
Economics Mohamed Ajwad Richard Benjamin Wendy Cunningham Eliecar Feinzaig Shivanthi Gunasekera Collen Houlihan Cynthia Hunt Ted Juhl Gregory Kordas Munir Mahmud Robert Miller |
George Pinteris Gamini Premaratne Iacovos Psairianos Rahim Quazi Heather Radach Shahidur Rashid Stefani Smith Vandna Verma Marc Weidenmier Finance |
The reputation of a great research university like Illinois depends in large measure on the renown of its faculty.
The Economics Graduate Student Association elected Lanny Arvan, associate professor of economics, and Roger Koenker, professor of economics, as best teacher of a large class. Salim Rashid was elected best teacher of a small class.
MBA Professor of the Year Awards for 1996 were presented to Charles Kahn, professor of finance, for core courses, and David M. Gardner, professor of marketing, for elective courses.
Executive MBA Outstanding Teaching Awards for 1996 went to Joe Mahoney, associate professor of business administration and Thomas Finnegan, visiting assistant professor of accountancy. Thomas Roehl, professor of business administration, was selected to receive the Keith E. Sawyer Service Award for his contributions to the EMBA program.
Commerce Council, the college student service organization, holds student elections for best professors and TAs in each department. The winners for 1996 are:
Peter Colwell, ORER Professor of Finance and director of ORER Greg Northcraft, professor of business administrion, was appointed associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal.
José Antonio Rosa, in addition to winning the college teaching award was also distinguished by his selection for the Weinstein Excellence Award. This award is given to recognize a teacher who not only excels in the classroom, but who alsoacts as a mentor to his students. This award carries a substantial cash award which has been generously provided from an endowed fund set up in the college for this purpose by George Weinstein, class of 1944.
Ira Solomon, the KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of Accountancy, received the 1996 Outstanding Educator Award. from the St. Louis CPA committee.
Cynthia Williams Turner, assistant professor of accountacny, who completed her first year on the faculty, won the Best Dissertation Award from the auditing section of the American Accounting Association.
Art Wyatt alumnus and adjunct accountancy professor has been named Senior Policy Advisor to the SEC Office of the Chief Accountanct. He will provide expert advice on international accounting standards.
Richard E. Ziegler, the Grant Thornton Professor of Accountancy, was named Outstanding Educator for 1996 by the Illiois sociatey of Certified Public Accountancts.
John Conley and Shane Greenstein, both associate professors of economics, and Roger Koenker, professor of economics, won National Science Foundation grants.
Richard Dietrich, professor accountancy, Don Kleinmuntz, associate professor of accountancy, and Thomas Linsmeir, assistant professor of accountancy, received a grant for $76,000 from the Coopers and Lybrand Foundation for the project entitled "An Experimental Laoratory for Financical Accounting Standards."
Larry Neal and Bart Taub, both professors of economics, received Guggenheim Awards. These are prestigious, national awards. Bart Taub, who received the award for the 1995-96 academic year, spent his time doing research at the University of Chicago. Larry Neal, whose award is for the 1996-97 academic year, will spend his time at the London School of Economics. Larry Neal was also awarded a Fulbright for this same year, which he declined so he could take the guggenheim.
Mike Shaw, professr of business administrration, spent all of the 1995-96 academic year at National Taiwan University as a Fulbright Fellow.
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) received a three-year grant of $220,000 per year from the Department of Education. This is the second CIBER grant awarded to Illinois.
The Office for Real Estate Research received a three- year grant, for $60,000, from the Research and Educational Trust fund of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. It will be used to enhance the real estate program at the college as well as to further ORER's efforts to build relationships between the academic community and the real estate finance industry.
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