Center Director Receives Teaching Award
Center Director Receives Teaching Award
Barbara Gray, professor of organizational behavior and director of the Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation in Smeal College, recently received the Graduate Faculty Teaching Award from Penn State. The Graduate Faculty Teaching Award honors tenured faculty members who have excelled both in teaching at the graduate level and in supervising thesis work of graduate students.
As a teacher of graduate courses, Gray stresses three core components: self-reflection, perspective taking and developing competencies. She has designed all the courses that she now teaches, among them a required doctoral seminar in qualitative research methods. Welcoming doctoral students as partners in learning, she has published 21 articles with current or former doctoral students and has 11 more in preparation or under review. Two of the dissertations she supervised received awards -- one from the Academy of Management and the other from the Academy of International Business.
With MBA students, her academic specialties are teaching teamwork and team leadership skills, negotiation and conflict management strategies and management of diversity. Former students praise her knowledge, enthusiasm, willingness to listen and ability to teach those skills necessary to deal successfully not only with the intricacies of the business world but with life as a whole.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business is a pre-eminent learning community,
shaping business practice for tomorrow's converging economies. With 6,400
undergraduates, Smeal College has the third largest undergraduate business
program in the country. In addition to the nationally ranked undergraduate
program, Smeal College is home to internationally ranked MBA and Executive
Education Programs. Smeal College's seven academic departments, as well
as its ten research centers and institutes, present programs and studies
in leading-edge areas such as converging economies, supply chain management,
e-business, and entrepreneurship along with the traditional areas of marketing,
management, finance, real estate, accounting and information systems.
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.
