PULLMAN, Wash.—The Washington State University College of Business and Economics named its top professors, staff members and graduate students for 2004 at its annual awards ceremony May 5. Dean Len Jessup also named this year’s Dean’s Excellence Fellows and faculty receiving Teaching Innovation Grants.
Receiving trophies and monetary awards are Bintong Chen, outstanding faculty in teaching; Chuck Munson, outstanding faculty in research; Ray August, outstanding faculty for service (internal to the college); Joe Valacich, outstanding faculty for service (external to the college); Cheryl Baker and Chris Talbott, outstanding staff members; Michael O’Fallon, outstanding graduate student in teaching; Susan Barnes, outstanding graduate student in research; and Darren Nicholson, outstanding graduate student for service.
Also recognized for their significant contributions to teaching, research and service are a number of Dean’s Excellence Fellows, including Robby Rosenman, economics; Rick Sias and David Whidbee, finance, insurance and real estate; Nancy Swanger, hospitality business management; Chen, Jerry Goodstein and Chuck Munson, management and operations; Joe Valacich, information systems; and Joe Cote, Jean Johnson and David Sprott, marketing. Goodstein and Cote are faculty members at WSU Vancouver.
Winners of the CBE Teaching Innovation awards are John Cullen and Uchilla Umesh, management and operations; Pratim Datta, Mauricio Featherman, K.D. Joshi and Saonee Sarker, information systems; Bob Greenberg, Debra Sanders and John Sweeney, accounting; Gene Lai, finance, insurance and real estate; Terry Umbreit, hospitality business management; and the all-WSU Vancouver interdisciplinary team of Jane and Joe Cote, Goodstein and Claire Latham. Jane Cote and Latham are accounting professors. Umesh is a faculty member at WSU Vancouver.
Of the winners of CBE “outstanding” awards, Baker is in the CBE graduate programs office; Talbott, marketing department; O’Fallon and Barnes, management and operations; and Nicholson, information systems.
Jessup shared news of some additional awards that had been announced at the department level. Professor of the Year for marketing is Darrel Muehling; accounting, Tom Nunamaker; and information systems, Traci Hess. Winners of the 2003-04 International Business Research Awards are Munson; Sarker; John Nofsinger, finance, insurance, and real estate; Mahbub Morshed, economics; and Sung Ahn, management and operations. Receiving 2003-04 International Travel Awards are Datta and Jerman Rose of the dean’s office and the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
Promoted to full professor in the college this year are Sweeney and Sias and Dave Lemak and Tom Tripp, management professors at WSU Tri-Cities and WSU Vancouver, respectively. Munson, Joshi and Suprateek Sarker, information systems, were given tenure and promoted to associate professors.
At the ceremony, Jessup congratulated all of this year’s award winners and complimented all members of the CBE for their efforts. During the 2003-04 academic year, the college continued to design and implement numerous significant changes to bring greater quality to its programs, he said. Those include rightsizing its majors down from 19 to the 10 strongest, installing new tenure and promotion standards for faculty and toughening its standards for students, among many others.
