Smeal College Establishes Memorial Fund In Memory Of Late Faculty Member
Smeal College Establishes Memorial Fund In Memory Of Late Faculty Member
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Penn State’s Smeal College of Business has established a memorial fund to honor the memory of former faculty member Anthony Verstraete. A member of the Supply Chain and Information Systems Department, Verstraete died on July 16 at the age of 60.
Those wishing to contribute to the fund, which will be used to enhance student programs, may send donations to One Old Main, University Park, PA, 16802. Checks should be made payable to Penn State with the notation “In memory of Anthony 'Tony' Verstraete.” Contributions may also be made online at http://www.giveto.psu.edu/MakeAGift.htm .
During his 23-year career with the college, Verstraete taught more than 10,000 students. A member of the Smeal faculty since 1980, Verstraete developed many new courses during his tenure covering systems analysis, database management, data communications, decision support, and expert systems.
For almost 20 years, Verstraete served as faculty advisor to Penn State’s Business and Society Interest House (BASH), a residence hall dedicated to business students. He spent most of his years in the college’s Department of Management Science and Information Systems, which was recently merged into the new Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems.
Verstraete also supervised more than 10 honors theses since the founding of Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College in 1997.
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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.
