Faculty Awards and Honors

  • Gordon M. Phillips, professor of finance, has been appointed an associate editor of a new journal, Annals of Finance. The first issue will be published in spring 2005.

  • Roland T. Rust, holder of the David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, director of the Center for Excellence in Service, and chair of the marketing department, was named to the program committee of the Eighth Annual International Research Seminar in Service Management, held in La Londe les Maures, France.

  • Debra L. Shapiro, professor of management organization, and Anil K. Gupta, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization and chair of the department of management and organization, have been invited to join the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal.

  • Katherine Stewart, assistant professor of management science, recently received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, will enable Stewart to examine factors that influence successful uses and applications of Open Source Software (OSS). The most commonly known OSS is Linux, the operating system that is considered a competitor to Microsoft Windows.

  • Alexander Triantis, associate professor of finance, has been appointed a senior editor for the journal Production and Operations Management.

  • Hugh S. Turner, teaching professor of transportation and logistics, won the 2003 TPUG Dissertation Award for his paper, “Infrastructure Productivity in the North American Containerport System: A Longitudinal Study (1984–1997).” The award acknowledges the outstanding contributions of scholars in the transportation and public utilities fields. TPUG (Transportation and Public Utilities Group) is an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the economics and public policies of the transportation and public utilities.