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Smeal Appoints New Department Chair, Interim Associate Dean

Penn State's Smeal College of Business has named two faculty members to leadership positions in the college, both effective July 1. Gus Colangelo, assistant professor of management, has been named interim associate dean for undergraduate programs for the 2007-2008 academic year. Dennis Gioia, professor of organizational behavior, will replace Charles Snow as chair of Smeal’s Department of Management and Organization.

Smeal Appoints New Department Chair, Interim Associate Dean

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 28, 2007) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business has named two faculty members to leadership positions in the college, both effective July 1.

Gus Colangelo, assistant professor of management, has been named interim associate dean for undergraduate programs for the 2007-2008 academic year. He replaces Jack Stevens, who will retire from Penn State in December.

Dennis Gioia, professor of organizational behavior, will replace Charles Snow as chair of Smeal's Department of Management and Organization. Snow spent three terms as chair of the department.

About Gus Colangelo
Colangelo has been with Smeal for 28 years. Prior to that, he was vice president and senior associate of the Institute for Research. He was responsible for design and implementation of management consulting programs in the area of organizational analysis, human resources planning and administration, and employee development.

In addition to his management teaching responsibilities, Colangelo is director of the college's first-year seminar in business for all incoming freshman and manager of the Mitte Scholarship Program, which provides funds for 60 undergraduate and 15 MBA scholarships every year.

Colangelo holds a master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology from Penn State and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of New Hampshire.

About Dennis Gioia
Gioia is a member of the Smeal MBA and Executive MBA Program core faculty, as well as faculty director of the Developing Managerial Effectiveness program for Penn State Executive Programs. He has served as a faculty leader in many other executive development programs for both private and public organizations.

His primary areas of theory and research focus on the study of organizational identity, image, and reputation. He also studies organizational sense-making and sense-giving processes, organizational learning, knowledge processes, and organizational change.

Gioia holds a doctorate in management and organizational behavior, an M.B.A. in management, and a bachelor's degree in engineering science from Florida State University.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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