All awards are welcome, but recognition by one’s peers, and for professors, recognition by one’s students, is particularly meaningful. Each year, the dedication of members of the faculty of the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) gets special attention at the Faculty Awards Luncheon. Held this year on October 20th, the luncheon enabled the 55 attendees to learn whom undergraduate and graduate students—as well as those from student organizations—chose as winners of the highly competitive and coveted awards.
Gloria Deckard, associate dean of the Landon Undergraduate School of Business presented the 2010-2011 Undergraduate Teaching Awards, chosen by students.
TEACHING
ALPFA at FIU—Fall 2010
Best Professor—Tessie Brunken
ALPFA at FIU—Spring 2011
Best Professor—Tessie Brunken
Beta Alpha Psi—Fall 2010
Best Professor—Jimmy Carmenate
Beta Alpha Psi—Spring 2011
Best Professor—Jimmy Carmenate
Financial Management Association—Fall 2010
Best Professor—Anastasios Moysidis
Financial Management Association—Spring 2011
Best Professor—Marcos Kerbel
American Marketing Association—Fall 2010
Best Professor—Michael Munro
American Marketing Association—Spring 2011
Best Professor—Tim Dugan Birrittella
Professional BBA Weekend—Spring 2011(Cohort 28)
Best Professor—Brian Schriner
Professional BBA Sunrise—Spring 2011 (Cohort 7)
Best Professor—Wendy Gelman
Joyce J. Elam, executive dean of the business school, presented the awards from the college’s graduate programs, also chosen by the students.
Master of Accounting—Fall 2010 (Cohort 19)
Best Professor—Stephen Lin
Master of Accounting—Fall 2010 (Cohort 20)
Best Professor—Daniel Medina
Master of Accounting—Fall 2010 (Cohort 21)
Best Professor—Kenneth Henry
Executive Master of Science in Taxation—Fall 2010 (Cohort 22)
Best Professor—Andrew Sbaraglia
Executive Master of Science in Taxation—Fall 2010 (Cohort 23)
Best Professor—Ed Arista
Executive Master of Science in Taxation –Fall 2010 ((Cohort 24)
Best Professor—Ed Arista
Master of Science in Finance—(Cohort 23) Pembroke Pines
Best Professor—Brice Dupoyet
Best Course—Chun-Hao Chang, Financial Management Policy
Master of Science in Finance—(Cohort 24) Downtown
Best Professor—Edward Lawrence
Best Course—Brice Dupoyet, Portfolio Management
Master of Science in Finance—(Cohort 25) Modesto Maidique Campus
Best Professor—Brice Dupoyet
Best Course—Shahid Hamid, Security Analysis
Master of Science in Human Resource Management—Fall 2010 (Cohort 16)
Best Professor—Robert Soloff
Best Course—Robert Soloff/Galen Kroeck, Employment Law
Master of Science in Human Resource Management—Summer 2011 (Cohort 17)
Best Professor—Robert Soloff
Best Course—Robert Soloff, Labor & Conflict Management
Master of Science in International Real Estate—(Cohort 5)
Best Professor—William Hardin
Best Course—William Hardin, Real Estate Investment
Master of Science in Management Information Systems—Fall 2010 (Cohort 21)
Best Professor—Faisal Kaleem
Best Course—Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Business Intelligence
Master of Science in Management Information Systems—Summer 2011 (Cohort 22)
Best Professor—Weidong Xia
Best Course—Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Special Topics in MIS: Healthcare Information Management
Master of International Business—Fall 2010
Best Professor—Christopher Ellis
Best Course—Christopher Ellis, Managing Global Production
Master of International Business—Spring 2011
Best Professor—Sumit Kundu
Best Course—Wendy Gelman, International Business Law
Master of International Business—Summer 2011
Best Professor—William Newburry
Best Course—Walfried Lassar, International Marketing
Downtown MBA—Class of 2011 (Cohort 6A)
Best Professor—Clark Wheatley
Best Course—John Zdanowicz, Corporate Finance
Downtown MBA—Class of 2011 (Cohort 6B)
Best Professor—Clark Wheatley
Best Course—Krishnan Dandapani, Corporate Finance
Professional MBA—Fall 2010
Best Professor—Sumit Kundu
Best Course—Clark Wheatley, Financial Reporting & Analysis
Professional MBA—Dominican Republic—Fall 2010 (Cohort 4)
Best Professor—Ron Gilbert
Best Course—Jose de la Torre, Strategic Management
Professional MBA—Panama—Fall 2010 (Cohort 2)
Best Professor—Ron Gilbert
Best Course—Dileep Rao, Entrepreneurship
Executive MBA—Jamaica—Spring 2011 (Cohort 11)
Best Professor—Doreen Gooden
Best Course—Barnett Greenberg, Corporate Simulation
Executive MBA—Spring 2011
Best Professor—Susan Clemmons
Best Course—Jose de la Torre, Strategic Management
Corporate MBA—(Cohort 2)
Best Professor—Cecilia Alvarez
Best Course—Wendy Gelman, Business Legal Environment
Corporate MBA—(Cohort 3)
Best Professor—Gloria Deckard/Deanne Butchey
Best Course—Gloria Deckard, Organizational Behavior and Barnett Greenberg, Corporate Simulation
Corporate MBA—(Cohort 4)
Best Professor—Charles Newman
Best Course—Charles Newman, Strategic Management
International MBA—Blue Cohort
Best Professor—John Zdanowicz
Best Course—John Zdanowicz, Corporate Finance
International MBA—Gold Cohort
Best Professor—John Wrieden
Best Course –Dileep Rao, Master’s Project in International Business
In addition to awards from students, the Department of Marketing awarded Vivian Chen the John Nichols Innovation in Teaching Excellence Award in Marketing.
RESEARCH
Executive Dean 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 publication in the last academic year:
Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez
Wen-Hsiu Chou
Karlene Cousins
Krishnan Dandapani
Sushil Gupta
Nathan Hiller
Xiaoquan Jiang
Walfried Lassar
Ruth Ann McEwen
William Newburry
Karen Paul
Juan Sanchez
Bruce Seaton
Monica Chiarini Tremblay
Deborah Vidaver-Cohen
Mary Ann Von Glinow
Weidong Xia
Faculty who published two premier journal articles:
Aya Chacar
Bob Daigler
Kaushik Dutta
William Hardin
Ken Johnson
Sumit Kundu
George Kyparisis
Kannan Raghunandan
Dasaratha Rama
Debra VanderMeer
Zhonghua Wu
Faculty who published three premier journal articles in the past year, an exceedingly difficult and noteworthy achievement:
Abhijit Barua
Christos Koulamas
SERVICE
One faculty member from each department also was recognized for his or her outstanding contributions in 2010-2011 to the college, FIU and the community.
School of Accounting—Antoinette Smith
Decision Sciences and Information Systems—Weidong Xia
Finance—Krishnan Dandapani
Management—Doreen Gooden
Marketing—Nancy Rauseo
