Penn State Honors Novack With Teaching Excellence Award
In honor of his record of distinction in undergraduate education, Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence has presented Robert Novack, associate professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business, with a 2009 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Penn State Honors Novack With Teaching Excellence Award
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (March 23, 2009) – In honor of his record of distinction in undergraduate education, Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence has presented Robert Novack, associate professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business, with a 2009 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The Atherton Award, named for the seventh president of the University (1882-1907), is presented each year to four full-time, tenure-line faculty members who have devoted substantial effort to, and developed a record of, excellence in undergraduate teaching. Award nominees must have undergraduate teaching as primary responsibility and have at least three years of undergraduate teaching experience at the University.
The last recipient of the Atherton Award at Smeal was Mark Dirsmith, Deloitte Professor of Accounting, in 2004.
Novack has served on the Smeal faculty since 1986 and currently teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in supply chain management. His current research interests include the quantification of logistics value and supply chain performance measurement. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Business Logistics and the Transportation Journal, among others.
Prior to joining academia, Novack worked in operations and planning for the Yellow Freight Corp. in Overland Park, Kan., and the Drackett Co. in Cincinnati.
The co-author of two logistics textbooks, Novack holds a bachelor's degree and an M.B.A. from Smeal and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.
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.
