Faculty members toil long and hard on behalf of their students, the College of Business Administration and Florida International University (FIU). That dedication gets recognized annually at the Faculty Awards Luncheon, this year held on September 24th and attended by approximately 65 dedicated colleagues. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as those from student organizations select the winners for the highly competitive and prized awards.
Executive Dean Joyce J. Elam welcomed the guests and presented the graduate and service awards, in addition to recognizing the substantial presence of faculty research in premier publications, the most prestigious category of academic journals. Clifford Perry, associate dean, Landon Undergraduate School, presented the undergraduate teaching awards.
TEACHING
Beta Alpha Psi—Fall 2009
Most Dedicated Faculty—Desiree Elias
Most Outstanding Professor—Stephen Lin
Beta Alpha Psi—Spring 2010
Most Dedicated Faculty—Stephen Lin
Most Outstanding Professor—Stephen Lin
Finance and Management Association—2009-2010
Most Knowledgeable Professor—Chun-Hao Chang
Most Engaging Professor—William Johnson
Most Dedicated Professor—Helen Simon
Most Challenging and Educative Professor—John Wrieden
Finance and Management Association—Fall 2009
Professor of the Semester—Marcos Kerbel
Finance and Management Association—Spring 2010
Professor of the Semester—Deanne Butchey
American Marketing Association—2009-2010
Most Creative Professor—Tim Dugan Birrittella
Best Overall Professor—Tim Dugan Birrittella
Most Knowledgeable Professor—Michael Munro and Paul Miniard
Professional BBA Weekend—Spring 2010 (Cohort 26)
Best Professor—Louis Melbourne
Professional BBA Weekend—Spring 2010 (Cohort 27)
Best Professor—Louis Melbourne
Professional BBA Sunrise—Spring 2010 (Cohort 6)
Best Professor—Clifford Perry
The awards for professors in the college’s graduate programs went to the following:
Master of Accounting—Fall 2009 (Cohort 16)
Best Professor—Ivan Garces
Executive Master of Science in Taxation—Fall 2009 (Cohort 21)
Best Professor—Cherie Hennig
Master of Science in Finance—Cohort Pembroke Pines
Best Course—Shahid Hamid, Securities Analysis
Best Professor—Edward Lawrence
Master of Science in Finance—Cohort Downtown
Best Course—Brice Dupoyet, Portfolio Management
Best Professor—Edward Lawrence
Master of Science in Finance—Cohort Modesto Maidique Campus
Best Course—Shahid Hamid, Securities Analysis
Best Professor—Brice Dupoyet
Master of Science in Human Resource Management—Fall 2009 (Cohort 14)
Best Course—Robert Soloff and K. Galen Kroeck, Employment Law
Best Professor—Robert Soloff
Master of Science in Human Resource Management—Summer 2010 (Cohort 15)
Best Course—Robert Soloff and K. Galen Kroeck, Employment Law
Best Professor—Juan I. Sanchez
Master of Science in International Real Estate—Cohort 4
Best Course—William Hardin, Advanced Real Estate Investment Valuation
Best Professor—William Hardin
Master of Science in Management Information Systems—Cohort 19 (Fall 2009)
Best Course—Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Special Topics in MIS: Business Intelligence
Best Professor—Debra VanderMeer
Master of Science in Management Information Systems—Cohort 20 (Summer 2010)
Best Course—Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Business Intelligence
Best Professor—Weidong Xia
Master of International Business—Fall 2009
Best Course—Christopher Ellis, Managing Global Productions
Best Professor—Jose de la Torre
Master of International Business—Spring 2010 and Summer 2010
Best Course—Christopher Ellis, Managing Global Productions
Best Professor—Christopher Ellis
Downtown MBA Class of 2010 (Cohort 1)
Best Course—John Zdanowicz, Corporate Finance
Best Professor—Clark Wheatley
Downtown MBA Class of 2010 (Cohort 2)
Best Course—Clark Wheatley, Financial Reporting and Analysis
Best Professor—William Schneper
Professional MBA—2010
Best Course—Peter Dickson, Marketing Management
Best Professor—William Schneper
Professional MBA-Panama—Cohort 1 (Spring 2010)
Best Course—Manuel Lasaga, Competitive Strategy
Faculty of the Year—G. Ronald Gilbert
Executive MBA-Jamaica Spring 2010 (Cohort 10)
Faculty of the Year—Doreen Gooden
Executive MBA—2010
Best Course—Jose de la Torre, Strategic Management
Best Professor—John Zdanowicz
International MBA—Blue Cohort
Best Course—Walfried Lassar, Marketing Management
Best Professor—John Zdanowicz
International MBA—Gold Cohort
Best Course—John Zdanowicz, Corporate Finance
Best Professor—William Newburry
In addition, the Department of Marketing awarded Cecilia Alvarez the “John Nichols Innovation in Teaching Excellence Award in Marketing.”
RESEARCH
Elam also recognized faculty members who have published in premier journals, the highest-ranked category of academic publications.
Faculty members who published one premier journal article in the last academic year:
Aya Chacar
Lewis Davidson
Brice Dupoyet
Carolina Gomez
Nathan Hiller
Walfried Lassar
Edward Lawrence
Suchismita Mishra
William Newburry
Karen Paul
Arun Prakash
Andrew Sbaraglia
Philip Shepherd
John Tsalikis
Weidong Xia
Faculty who published two premier journal articles:
Abhijit Barua
Sushil Gupta
Xiaoquan Jiang
Ken H. Johnson
Christos Koulamas
George Kyparisis
Stephen Lin
Anthony Miyazaki
Kannan Raghunandan
Dasaratha Rama
Juan I. Sanchez
Francis Seaton
Faculty who published three premier journal articles in the past year, an exceedingly difficult and noteworthy achievement:
Robert Daigler
William Hardin
Mary Ann Von Glinow
Zhonghua Wu
SERVICE
One faculty member from each department also was recognized for his or her outstanding contributions in 2009-2010 to the college, FIU and the community.
Debra VanderMeer—Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Wendy Gelman—School of Accounting
Helen Simon—Finance and Real Estate
Constance Bates—Management and International Business
Tim Dugan Birrittella—Marketing
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