Michael Beachem, resident director in Student Affairs, received the Mid-Level Professional Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators at their national Conference in Boston, held March 10.
Joke Bradt, assistant director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center, was recently appointed to the exam committee of the Certification Board for Music Therapists. She has clinical expertise in medical music therapy, specifically as it relates to chronic and acute pain management. The committee develops the exam that identifies competent practices in music therapy, and is comprised of music therapists, from around the country, who have diverse backgrounds and clinical expertise.
Ahmed M.S. Soliman, professor and associate chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the School of Medicine, was invited to the first International Videostroboscopy workshop held at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 10.
Ahmed M.S. Soliman, professor and associate chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the School of Medicine, was invited for the third consecutive year to the third International Pediatric Airway Course, held at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 11 and 12. This is, in part, a continuation of the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoesophagology course he ran at Temple for many years.
The Fox School of Business was ranked fourth in the world for international business research productivity in a recent study conducted by the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Also, several of the school’s faculty members were identified as being among the most prolific authors in the field: Mike Kotabe, professor of international business and marketing; Ram Mudambi, associate professor and department chair of general and strategic management; Arvind Parkhe, professor of general and strategic management; and David Reeb, associate professor of finance.
The Fox School of Business was ranked sixth, in a recent Interfaces ranking, for its contributions to the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences practice operations research literature. The largely reflects the work of Fred Murphy of the Fox School’s Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Department. This was the seventh published ranking, and Temple University has been in the top 10 for each of the seven rankings.
The Fox School's Management Information Systems Department is one of the top ten performing programs according to Academic Analytics. The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index has listed the Fox School's MIS Department as one of the top performing individual programs for 2006-07. The FSP Index measures the annual productivity of faculty on several factors including: publications, citations of journal publications, federal research funding, and awards and honors.
Temple University Press, along with four other universities, announced their collaborative American Literatures Initiative in December. They received the biggest award, $1.37 million, and will also emphasize first books. They also will test what their web site describes as a “shared, centralized, editorial office” in charge of book production. |
