September 2005
Latest News: September 2005
Smeal Welcomes New eBRC Executive Director
Longtime business and technology consultant John M. Jordan has been named executive director of the eBusiness Research Center (eBRC) at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He succeeds Nirmal Pal, who retired in July.
Smeal Included In Two Prominent Business-School Rankings
The Wall Street Journal and The Economist released separate rankings of the best business schools and both included Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
Survey Ranks Smeal Number One In Supply Chain Education
A recent survey of supply chain practitioners and academics in Canada, Mexico and the United States ranks Penn State's Smeal College of Business as having the top supply chain program in North America.
Smeal Faculty Members Write Sixth Edition Of Transportation Textbook
South-Western, a division of the Thomson Corporation, has published the sixth edition of Transportation, a textbook by three former and current Smeal College of Business professors.
Smeal Welcomes Students Displaced By Hurricane Katrina
The Smeal College of Business at Penn State welcomes to its classrooms students who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Students from schools along the Gulf Coast began taking classes at Smeal this week.
Dean Olian To Leave Smeal For UCLA
Judy Olian, dean of the Smeal College of Business, has been named as the eighth dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2006, pending approval by the University of California Board of Regents.
Penn State Smeal Awarded Three Grants From NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded Penn State's Smeal College of Business three research grants totaling more than $400,000. Combined with similar grants the college received in 2003, Smeal will complete research for NIST worth $808,928.
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