Marla R. Wolfson, associate professor of physiology and pediatrics, and Thomas H. Shaffer, professor emeritus of physiology and pediatrics at the School of Medicine, recently were awarded Outstanding Instrumentation Research Paper of 2006 from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) for their paper “A prototype infant incubator for heliox therapy.” The paper appeared in the March/April 2006 issue of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, a bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal published by AAMI. Each year, the editorial board selects the best paper published in the journal in the categories of instrumentation research and management and technology, based on originality of work and significance to biomedical research.

Paul Asabere, professor of finance at The Fox School of Business, was one of 32 scholars invited by the World Bank to participate in a workshop on March 19 by the Commission on Urban Growth and Development.

Eric Borguet, an associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science and Technology, has been selected as a visiting fellow by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. This fellowship is designed to allow senior scientists to pursue collaborative research in Japanese universities. In June, Borguet will travel to Japan and present seminars at several Japanese universities and research institutes as well as give an invited talk at the International Conference on Electrified Interfaces in Sahoro, Hokkaido. Previous Temple recipients of this fellowship include College of Science and Technology Dean Hai-Lung Dai and chemistry Professors Franklin A. Davis and Scott Sieburth.

Mark Gershon, professor and chairman of the Management Science and Operations Management Department at The Fox School of Business, wrote the paper “Managing Resource Intensive, Critical Coordination Projects.” The paper was selected for the Robert Baird Award as the outstanding paper at the National Business and Economics Society conference in Puerto Rico in March.

Bob Giacalone, professor of human resource management at The Fox School of Business, received a faculty fellowship from the Graduate Management Admission Council. The Faculty Fellowships Program is designed to support innovative and thought-provoking management education leaders. The institute offers up to four annual yearlong faculty fellowships with awards up to $50,000 for research at the fellows' home institutions.

Ama Mazama, associate professor of African American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, was presented with the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Promotion of Scholarly Publications in the field of Africana studies from the National Council for Black Studies, the top professional organization for scholars in Africana studies, at its 31st annual conference in San Diego, March 14–17. Mazama, author of L’imperatif Afrocentrique, The Afrocentric Paradigm, and co-editor of the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Black Studies, has written six books and more than 40 articles.

Kristie P. Koenig, an assistant professor of occupational therapy in the College of Health Professions, was recently selected from a nationwide pool as one of 18 leadership fellows for a nine-month fellowship on academic mentoring and leadership. This project, the first of its kind, is a joint effort sponsored by the American Occupational Therapy Association and American Occupational Therapy Foundation.

Benjamin Krevsky, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine and associate chief of gastroenterology and director of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Temple University Hospital, was recently named a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association. The nation’s oldest medical society dedicated to disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, the AGA awards fellowships to its members whose accomplishments and contributions demonstrate personal commitment to the field of gastroenterology.

Eli Goldblatt, director of Temple’s First Year Writing Program and an associate professor in the English Department, has been elected to the executive board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, a national organization of college and university faculty with professional and scholarly interests in directing writing programs. Eli Goldblatt’s three-year term will begin in July 2007.

Gregory J. W. Urwin, a professor of history and associate director of the Center for Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple, has received an academic fellowship from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to attend an intensive counter-terrorism workshop in Israel this summer. The goal of the program is to offer information to teaching professionals about the latest trends in terrorists’ ideologies, motives and operations.

The Computer Services "Get Connected" tent card received the Award of Merit from the Society for Technical Communication in the Philadelphia Metro Chapter, Technical Art Competition. The guide was designed by Christa Barlow, a senior designer in Creative Services, and produced by Stephen Adler and Marianne Johnston, who both are senior communications and technical documentation specialists in Computer Services.

Namorah Gayle Byrd, a final-year doctoral student in English literature, visited Kuwait City in the Middle East over winter break after the U.S Embassy personnel in Kuwait notified her about lecture opportunities, there, she experienced Middle Eastern culture and educated high school students about American college life for three weeks.

Three Temple chemistry students won awards at the Seventh Annual Graduate and Second Annual Undergraduate Poster Session held in January by the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemistry Society. Graduate students Ali Eftekhari-Bafrooei (“Utrafast Vibrational Dynamics at Water Interfaces by Sum-Frequency Generation”) and Yangjun Xing (“Two Dimensional Charge Diffusion in a Self-Assembled Monolayer of Redox Active Porphyrins’) were presented with $100 Philadelphia Section Awards, while undergraduate Allison Pymer (“Nonlinear Optical Studies of Mesoscopic Colloidal Particle Surface Charge”) was presented with a $50 Philadelphia Section Award. All three students work under associate professor Eric Borguet.

Carol C. Gould, professor of philosophy and political science and director of the Center for Gobal Ethics and Politics at the College of Liberal Arts, is featured in the book The Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, released in late 2006.

Jeffrey L. Dunoff, the Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government at the Beasley School of Law, was awarded the Law and Public Affairs fellowship from Princeton University School of Law and Public Affairs for the 2007-08 academic year. The fellowship is awarded annually to six outstanding faculty members, independent scholars, lawyers and judges from around the world. At Princeton, Dunoff will focus on the topic “Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Governance,” and plans to turn his work into a book. In December, he will host an invitation-only conference featuring collaborators on the publication.

David Kairys, a James E. Beasley Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law and one of the country’s preeminent civil rights attorneys, is the recipient of the 2007 Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools. The award is presented to a full-time faculty member or dean who has made an outstanding contribution to increasing pro bono and public service opportunities in law schools through scholarship, leadership or service. Kairys received the award at the AALS annual meeting in January.

Michael Jackson, a sports and recreation management professor at The School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, was the featured photographer in January at an exhibit at the Lemuria Gallery in Manayunk, Pa. The exhibit, "Living in an Image: 4" X 6" View of Africa," displayed some of the original photographs Jackson captured during a trip to Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia last September. The trip was part of an effort to find ways to increase tourism in the region while conserving area resources.

The Small Business Development Center at the Fox School of Business was recently recognized by the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers for its work with 911 Safety Equipment, LLC, a small women-owned business, which provides top-quality fire safety products and services. Based on the consulting services SBDC provided, the Temple SBDC received the “2006 Success Story of the Year" award, which was given at the annual PASBDC conference held in Philadelphia in January. The SBDC team included Margie Beard, technology commercialization assistance program manager; Carol Hendrix, business consultant and Entrepreneurship Success Workshop Series instructor; Gary Carr, graphic designer; Michelle DeLaurentis, telephone consultant; Stacey Harpster, creative department manager; Marcia Lyssy, educational programming director; Maureen O’Halloran, government marketing specialist; Varma Mitchell, senior business consultant; Tim Bennett, finance manager; Faye Fitz, marketing specialist; and Fox School of Business instructors of international business Nicole Desilvis and Stan Ridgley.

Xiongwen Chen, research assistant professor in the School of Medicine, has received the American Heart Association’s Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Science. The award encourages early career investigators to continue research efforts in cardiovascular or circulatory physiology. Chen received the award for his research titled “New Ventricular Myocytes with Distinct Electrophysiological Properties Are Formed During Adolescent Cardiac Growth, which describes how newly formed cardiomyocytes in the heart are identified and characterized by a combination of histologic and electrophysiologic analyses.

Theodore Z. Davis, lecturer on legal topics at the School of Law, has been appointed interim chief operating officer of the city of Camden by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. Davis earned his accounting undergraduate degree from the Fox School of Business in 1960 and his law degree from the School law in 1963.

Daniel Fesenmaier, a professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, was named associate editor of the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism.

Alan Izeman, a statistics professor at the Fox School of Business and director of the Center for Statistical and Information Science in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, was a member of the National Science Foundation Panel for Statistics and Probability in January. The panel evaluated a large number of research grant proposals. Izeman also began chairing the American Statistical Association Committee on Law and Justice Statistics starting January. The committee advises the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the U.S. Department of Justice, to help BJS maintain a small grant program. BJS is providing Izenman with $10,000 toward a graduate research assistantship.

On Feb. 14, Antonio Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and director of the Center for Biotechnology in the College of Science and Technology, received the 2007 Saint Valentine Prize in Terni, Italy, the home of St. Valentine. In the summer of 2006, Giordano founded the Human Health Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Umbria, Italy, which will fund laboratories across Europe. The prize honors humanitarian contributions in everything from medicine to peace in the Middle East.

Moshe Porat, dean of The Fox School of Business, was honored in January at a dinner given by Lubavitch of Bucks County. Porat was honored for his leadership at The Fox School of Business.

In January, graduate students from the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management as well as from the Fox School of Business competed in Houston at the 12th Annual Graduate Education and Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism. Two papers written by Temple students were selected among the five best out of 266 competing submissions from all over the world. The selected papers were “Strategic Group Analysis of Destination Management Organizations: A study of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Region,” written by Tanvi Kothari, and “Designing a Performance Measurement for Tourism Organizations: The Case of SMART- Elkhart,” written by Zheng Xiang, Florian Zach, Tanvi Kothari, and Todd Alexander. The students were under the guidance of Daniel Fesenmaier, a professor at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.