Colangelo, Ziegler, Wollan Win Smeal's Fred Brand, Jr. Awards For Excellence
Colangelo, Ziegler, Wollan Win Smeal's Fred Brand, Jr. Awards For Excellence
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Gus Colangelo, Raeshel Ziegler, and Patricia Wollan have been named 2002-2003 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, will be presented on March 27 during a ceremony at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Nominations for the Fred Brand Awards are accepted from faculty, staff, and students, and decided upon by a selection committee that includes former recipients and student representatives. David Christy, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, chaired the selection committee.
Colangelo, recipient of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, joined Smeal in 1999 after a more than 20-year managerial and executive career. As Assistant Professor of Management, he teaches a trio of undergraduate courses including Management 100, a survey course for non-business majors that reaches 375 students each semester; Management 341, the introductory human resources course for management majors; and Management 451W, a writing intensive management ethics course. He is also Program Manager for the Mitte Foundation Scholarship at Smeal, which provides funds for 60 undergraduate and 15 MBA scholarships every year, and Director of Smeal’s First-Year Seminar Program, a mandatory course for all incoming freshmen, for which he recently edited a textbook used in the course.
Ziegler, recipient of the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, is an Academic Counselor for Undergraduate Programs. She advises a caseload of about 200 freshmen and sophomores from Smeal as they explore business majors; helping students with course selection, understanding the curriculum and academic policies, and other facets of life in Smeal. Ziegler also advises all freshman and sophomore Schreyer and Mitte Scholars in the college while handling Smeal’s general coordination and programming for these two programs. Additionally, Ziegler serves as Co-Coordinator of the Smeal Spring Commencement and teaches PSU 006, the first-year seminar for Smeal students. She has taught special scholar sections of the course in the past, and she is also a member of an intra-office team dedicated to improving programs and services for all first-year students.
Wollan, recipient of the Award for Excellence as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, was accepted as a Smeal doctoral candidate in 1999 after joining Smeal as an MS student in 1997. Her thesis examines the impact of deregulation on the structure and governance of electric utilities. Wollan has taught Finance 305W, designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of financial management and the financial decisions faced by corporate managers; Finance 408, which provides a comprehensive survey of major financial markets and institutions in the U.S. and abroad; and Finance 100, a concepts course in financial management for non-business majors. Wollan, who has also acted as Smeal’s representative to the Graduate Student Association, has accepted a tenure-track position in the Finance and Accounting Department at Rochester Institute of Technology for next fall.
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 a 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.
