Smeal Honors Professors, Advisers With Annual Awards
Five advisers and educators at the Smeal College of Business have been awarded 2007-2008 Fred Brand Jr. and Dillwyn P. Paiste III awards, the college's highest honors for advising and teaching.
Smeal Honors Professors, Advisers With Annual Awards
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 12, 2008) – Five advisers and educators at the Smeal College of Business have been awarded 2007-2008 Fred Brand Jr. and Dillwyn P. Paiste III awards, the college's highest honors for advising and teaching.
Frank Chelko, instructor of operations and supply chain management, Edward Glantz, clinical assistant professor of information systems, and Robert Novack, associate professor of supply chain and information systems, received the Dillwyn P. Paiste III Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Dan Chiaburu, graduate assistant and Ph.D. candidate in management and organization, received the Dillwyn P. Paiste III Award for Excellence as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Janet Spearly, senior academic counselor, received the Fred Brand, Jr. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
Faculty and graduate assistants are nominated for the Brand and Paiste awards by their academic department. All advisers with more than two years of service are also eligible. Students then offer their support of the nominees, with a selection committee of past honorees and student representatives selecting the recipients.
The awards are named in honor of 1932 Penn State graduates Dillwyn P. Paiste III and Fred Brand Jr. Paiste spent 35 years at Armstrong World Industries, retiring in 1971 as assistant general manager of the company's industrial division. He died in 1993. Brand was a successful insurance executive who spent much of his career with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He died in 1998.
A complete list of Smeal student, faculty, and staff awards is available online.
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.
