Lerner Faculty Academic Showcase
 | Operations Management Program, APICS honors Operations Management program, May, 2012 The Operations Management program in the Lerner College's Department of Business Administration was selected by the APICS Brandywine Valley Chapter to be "Company of the Year" for 2012. The honor is in recognition of the program's active and ongoing support of APICS, the Brandywine Valley Chapter and the University of Delaware Student Chapter. This is a first, since an educational institution has never been named before (DuPont received the award in 2011, and AstraZeneca prior to that). OM faculty include Bintong Chen, Darwin Davis, Adam Fleischhacker, William Gehrlein, Hemant Kher, Christine Kydd and Erwin Saniga. The program was honored at the chapter's Professional Development meeting on May 8, 2012. |
 | Frederick J. DeMicco, ARAMARK Professor of HRIM DeMicco delivers lectures at conference in Finland, March, 2012 Frederick J. DeMicco delivered three lectures in Helsinki, Finland at a major Nordic and Russian hospitality business conference. Symposia Gastro Pro is a conference where international presenters lead the listeners toward upcoming trends and new concepts in the hospitality industry. The first seminar presented the results of the Restaurant 2020-survey concerning the new innovative hotel, spa, restaurant and service concepts; the second presented research on “Future trends in the Hospitality sector.” DeMicco also gave an invited presentation on Medical Tourism, Spas and Hotels, and the impact of social analytic tools on hotels to the undergraduate, and MBA students at Haaga –Helia University- the University of Applied Sciences of Helsinki. |
 | Ji Kyung Park, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Park awarded C.W. Park Young Contributor Award, January, 2012 The C.W. Park Young Contributor Award is given by the Journal of Consumer Psychology and Society for Consumer Psychology. This prestigious award is recognized once a year based on the papers accepted and published in the latest volume of the Journal. The award committee selects only one scholar who has the best first-authored publication in the Journal among those who have not yet passed their second year of professorship in the marketing discipline. The award is announced and recognized at the Society for Consumer Psychology annual conference. |
 | Ajay Manrai, Professor of Marketing Manrai to co-chair Annual World Business Congress, December, 2011 Ajay Manrai, the president of International Management Development Association, IMDA, will serve as a congress co-chair for its Annual World Business Congress in Helsinki, Finland, during July 2012 and in Taiperi, Taiwan, in July 2013. http://www.IMDA.cc |
 | Adrienne Lucas, Assistant Professor of Economics Lucas Awarded a Grant from Hewlett Foundation, November, 2011 The Hewlett Foundation has committed $300,000 in funding, with more than $50,000 of that allocated to UD, to Adrienne Lucas’ grant proposal with Patrick McEwan (PI, Wellesley) and Maria Perez (Stanford), "The Cost-Effectiveness of Raising Student Achievement in Africa and India." |
 | Tim DeSchriver, Associate Professor of Business Administration DeSchriver speaks at international congress, October, 2011 Tim DeSchriver was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 1st Annual Sport Economics and Management Congress, Izmir, Turkey, Oct. 2011. The title of his keynote speech is “Global Recession and its Impact on the Sport Industry”. http://sem.ege.edu.tr/ |
 | Bintong Chen, Professor and Associate Dean Chen Selected to Board of Directors of APICS, September, 2011 Bintong Chen was selected to be a board of director at large for APICS, the Association for Operations Management, effective January 1st, 2012. APICS is a not-for-profit international education organization, offering certification programs, training tools and networking opportunities to increase workplace performance. It was founded in 1957 as the American Production and Inventory Control Society, and currently has more than 43,000 individual and corporate members in more than 10,000 companies worldwide. http://www.apics.org/default.htm |
 | Laurence Seidman, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics Seidman appointed an Editor of the Social Security, Pensions & Retirement Income eJournal, June, 2011 The journal is sponsored by the Social Insurance Research Network, which is an online venue providing access to scholarly research and professional announcements in the Social Insurance community. Social Insurance includes the systems for insuring workers and their families against economic insecurity caused by the loss of income from work and the cost of health care, such as Social Security, Medicare, Workers' Compensation, unemployment insurance, related social assistance and private employee benefits. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1500139_CMBO.html |
 | Gary Weaver, Professor of Management Weaver completes 6-year term at Business Ethics Quarterly, Gary Weaver recently completed a six-year term as Editor in Chief of Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) (www.businessethicsquarterly.org). BEQ is sponsored by the Society for Business Ethics and is widely recognized as the top scholarly specialty journal in that subfield, publishing both theoretical and empirical work. During his time as editor, BEQ’s impact ranking in Journal Citation Reports rose from “middle of the pack” to #2 out of 38 journals in the ethics category. Weaver remains affiliated with BEQ as senior associate editor. Weaver was also recognized with his co-authors by the Journal of Management (JoM) for its 2011 scholarly impact award (for Linda Treviño, Gary Weaver, and Scott Reynolds, “Behavioral ethics in organizations: A review,” Journal of Management 2006). Five awards are given by JoM each year, based on number of citations to the article, quality of the articles and journals citing the award article, and “perceived quality and potential for continued impact,” all as judged by the associate editors of JoM. http://www.businessethicsquarterly.org/ |
