January 2006

Media Round-Up

Smeal, U.S. Army Form Education Partnership

Smeal Professor's Four-Volume Accounting Ethics Published

Smeal Alum Establishes Trustee Scholarships To Benefit Undergrads

Huang Wins Best Dissertation Award

Ventura, Tew Picked To Lead Master Of Manufacturing Management Degree Program

Jaffe To Head Insurance And Real Estate Department

Smeal Launches Entrepreneurship Program For High School Teachers

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Here's the latest issue of SMEAL Zine, a monthly electronic magazine designed to keep alumni and friends in touch with the latest news and information from Penn State's Smeal College of Business and its nationally ranked programs and world-renowned research centers.

Smeal Launches Entrepreneurship Program For High School Teachers

Smeal's Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship has launched a landmark entrepreneurial education program designed to provide school teachers with the skills they need to teach entrepreneurship to high school students. The four-day "Teaching the Teacher" course gives instructors the understanding they need to design their own courses in entrepreneurship through problem-based learning. For more information on this new course for teachers, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/
dec05/entre.html.

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Jaffe To Head Insurance And Real Estate Department

Austin J. Jaffe, Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration, has been named chair of Smeal's Insurance and Real Estate Department for a three-year term effective Jan. 1. Jaffe will replace Kenneth Lusht, who takes over as interim dean in January. For more information on the Jaffe appointment, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/
dec05/jaffe.html.

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Ventura, Tew Picked To Lead Master Of Manufacturing Management Degree Program

Jose Ventura, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, and Jeffrey Tew, clinical professor of supply chain and information systems, have been named co-directors of the master's degree program in manufacturing management. The degree, celebrating its tenth year, is offered through the Quality and Manufacturing Management (QMM) Program, which is administered jointly between the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business. For more information on the Master of Manufacturing Management, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/qmm/index.html.

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Huang Wins Best Dissertation Award

Zan Huang, assistant professor of supply chain and information systems, received the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the field of information systems at the International Conference on Information Systems in Las Vegas this month. Huang's dissertation, "Graph-Based Analysis for E-commerce Recommendation," examined recommender systems, which are programs that are embedded in companies' Web sites to automatically gather data and recommend products to Web site visitors. For more information on Huang's honor, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec05/huang.html.

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Smeal Alum Establishes Trustee Scholarships To Benefit Undergrads

Stewart Stumpo, a 1978 Smeal graduate with a bachelor's degree in marketing, and his wife Lisa Celia have established the Stewart A. Stumpo and Lisa M. Celia Trustee Scholarship, which will provide assistance to undergraduate students at Smeal who need help paying for college expenses. For more on Stumpo's involvement with Smeal, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec05/stumpo.html.

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Smeal Professor's Four-Volume Accounting Ethics Published

Routledge has published a new four-volume book set edited by J. Edward Ketz, associate professor of accounting, that includes nearly 100 essays by leading professionals and academics examining the theories and realities of accounting ethics. In Accounting Ethics, Ketz gathers the most important research in the field and offers a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the accounting industry, allowing readers to reassess the field's theories, research studies, and professional practices. For more information on this new book, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec05/ketzbook.html.

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Smeal, U.S. Army Form Education Partnership

Penn State Executive Programs has partnered with the Defense Department's U.S. Army Logistics Management College (ALMC) to offer military personnel the opportunity to earn a Certificate in Supply Chain Management. Under this new agreement, members of the U.S. armed forces will earn a supply chain certificate after completing the "Fundamentals of Defense Supply Chain Management" course offered by ALMC and two additional programs. For more information on this new partnership, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/releases/dec05/almc.html.

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Media Round-Up

Members of the Smeal College faculty are contacted regularly by the world's news media. In December, faculty members were featured in media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, and on ABC News Radio. For a more complete list, please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/news/innews/index.html.

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Programs and Events

Penn State Executive Programs is currently accepting reservations for its upcoming programs. Please visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/date.html for more information or click the links below for some of the specific programs being offered.

February 13-17
Managing Effective Supply Chains: Essentials of Supply Chain Management
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/mesc1.html

March 19-24
Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/dlsc.html