Ritu Agarwal, Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems, and Anil Gupta, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization, chair of the management and organization department, and research director for the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, are serving as guest editors for a special issue of Information Systems Research focusing on the topic of “Interplay Between Digital and Social Networks.”

G. Anand Anandalingam, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science and chair of the decision and information technologies department, has been appointed as co-program chair for the Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of India.

Gurdip Bakshi, Dean’s Professor of Finance, has received an FDIC grant to study recovery rates in default. He will be designated an FDIC fellow for 2005-2006.

Kay Bartol, Robert H. Smith Professor of Management and Organization, is now serving her third year as the Dean of the Academy of Management Fellows Group. Bartol was elected dean by her peers in the Fellows Group, comprised of approximately 150 top scholars in the management field.

Zhi-long Chen, associate professor of management science, served on the program committee for The Second Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling, held at the Stern School of Business, NYU, July 18-21, 2005. He also served on the program and organizing committees for the Sixth Scheduling Conference of China held in Shanghai, China, in August.

Samer Faraj, assistant professor of information systems, has received a Fulbright Scholarship.

The finance team received the 2005 University of Maryland Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology in recognition of the educational programs they developed for use in the financial markets lab targeting K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students.

The Journal of Service Research will be listed in the Social Science Citation Index, the most prestigious indexing service. It is rare for a journal to achieve this after only seven years of operation. The journal is sponsored by the Smith School's Center for Excellence in Service; its founding editor is Roland Rust.

Lawrence Gordon, Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Managerial Accounting, has been asked to serve on a National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) Work Group concerned with risk management. Through the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the group provides President Bush with advice on the security, including cybersecurity, of information systems for critical infrastructure protection.

Anil Gupta and Ken Smith, professor of management and organization, are serving as guest editors for a special issue of Academy of Management Journal focusing on the topic of “Managing Exploration and Exploitation” with Chris Shalley of Georgia Tech.
Anil Gupta, Susan Taylor, professor of management and organization, and Paul Tesluk, associate professor of management and organization, are serving as guest editors for a special issue of Organization Science focusing on the topic of “Innovation at and across Multiple Levels of Analysis.”

James Peters, assistant professor of accounting and information assurance, was awarded an Outstanding Faculty Service Award by the University’s Student Honor Council.

Violina Rindova, associate professor of management and organization, has been invited to join the senior editorial team at Academy of Management Review (AMR). She will be one of the six associate editors working with the incoming editor, Martin Kilduff.

Louiqa Raschid, professor of information systems, received a $150,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation to work with colleagues in Sri Lanka on data management challenges of disaster information management within the context of a National Data Center (NDC) for Sri Lanka. Raschid has also traveled to Sri Lanka to provide technical advice and help on site.

Brian Ratchford, Pepsico Chair in Consumer Research, was named associate editor of the Journal of Consumer Research effective July 2005. His paper “CHAN4CAST: A Multi-Channel Multi Region Forecasting Model and Decision Support System for Consumer Packaged Goods,” with Suresh Divaka and Venkatesh Shankar, was accepted for publication in Marketing Science.

Roland Rust, holder of the David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, chair of the marketing department and director of the Center for Excellence in Service, was awarded the 2005 Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award for “exceptional scholarly achievements” by the Society for Marketing Advances, 2005. The award will be presented at the annual SMA meeting in November, at which Rust will present an honorary keynote address.

Lemma Senbet, William E. Mayer Chair in Finance and chair of the finance department, received an honorary degrees from his alma mater, Addis Ababa University (AAU) on July 23, 2005. The award recognizes Senbet’s contribution to the field of finance and financial planning and policy issues in Ethiopia and more broadly in Africa. AAU is Ethiopia’s flagship university.

Myeong-Gu Seo, assistant professor of management and organization, Susan Taylor, Dean's Professor of Human Resources and director of the Center for Human Capital, Innovation and Technology, and Paul Tesluk, associate professor of management and organization, received a research grant from the National Science Foundation for $273,175 for research on "Managing Radical Organizational Change: The Role of Leadership and Affective Experience."

Galit Shmueli, assistant professor of management science and statistics, and Wolfgang Jank, assistant professor of management science and statistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a conference on Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in e-Commerce Research, which was held at the Smith School in May 2005. They will be guest editors for a special issue of the journal Statistical Science on the same subject.

Ian Williamson, assistant professor of management and organization, has won the 2005 Academy of Management Mentoring Best Practices Award. This award recognizes individuals who have excelled in providing mentoring to Academy of Management members. Williamson has been invited to join the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal.