Stevens, Grutzeck, Jagolinzer Win Smeal's Fred Brand, Jr. Awards For Excellence
Stevens, Grutzeck, Jagolinzer Win Smeal's Fred Brand, Jr. Awards For Excellence
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (April 9, 2004) - Jack Stevens, Lynne Grutzeck, and Alan Jagolinzer have been named 2003-2004 Fred Brand, Jr. Award recipients for Penn State's Smeal College of Business. The awards, which annually recognize excellence in teaching and advising at the college, were presented April 8 during a ceremony at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Nominations for the Brand Awards are accepted from faculty, staff, and students, and decided upon by a selection committee that includes former recipients and student representatives.
Stevens, recipient of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, is a professor of management and organization. His approach in the classroom is bolstered by his research interests, which emphasize managerial commitment, strategy, and policy implementation, business-government relations, and the use of information systems in decision-making. Stevens has also served as graduate program officer for two master's programs at Penn State.
Grutzeck, recipient of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, has been a part-time undergraduate advisor for 14 years. She advises more than 200 freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, helping them with course selection, exploring business majors, understanding business curriculum and academic policies and other issues that apply to their academic progress. Grutzeck contributed her award check to the Smeal College Undergraduate Student Emergency Fund, which is used to assist students in need with food, textbooks, housing funds, and other support.
Jagolinzer, recipient for the Award for Excellence as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, is a Ph.D. candidate in accounting. His thesis examines insider trading behavior. Jagolinzer has taught Accounting 211, an introduction to financial and managerial accounting; Accounting 306, an introduction to federal taxation; and Accounting 471, an intermediate financial Accounting class. Jagolinzer, who received a B.S. in Accounting from Smeal in 1989 has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Stanford University.
The awards are named in honor of Fred Brand, Jr., a native of Sewickley, Pa., who graduated from Penn State in 1932 with a degree in commerce and finance. He was a successful insurance executive and began his career as an Agent with Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company. From 1934 until his retirement in 1974, he worked with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1974, he joined Brand, Burstin & Runnette, as Partner and Brand Associates as Secretary. He was Director for the Allegheny General Hospital and Chairman of the Western Pennsylvania Heart Fund. He passed away in 1998.
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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.
