New Book by Professor Michael Long: Valuing the Closely Held Firm
Finance and Economics Professor Michael Long's new book, Valuing the Closely Held Firm, is published by Oxford Press. The book is coauthored by Tom Bryant. (10/07)
Professor Hui Xiong Awarded Research Grant for Data Mining Study
Professor Hui Xiong, Management Science and Information Systems, has been awarded $60,000 by Michael Pazzani, Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education, to support a collaborative research study of data mining in mobile computing. Hui will be working with Professor Marco Gruteser of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Hui also is the recipient of this year's RBS Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
MSIS Professors Receive Grant
Rutgers Business School MSIS Professors Nabil Adam, Vijay Atluri, Jaideep Vaidya, and Hui Xiong were awarded a grant totaling $566,000 from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through SAP Corp. The focus of the research and development work is information technology (IT) issues related to public security in Germany. This grant is part of a larger grant that consists of six German organizations (universities and corporations), with Rutgers Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC) being the only non-German entity involved. Special permission was granted by the German government to include Rutgers CIMIC as a U.S. research entity. The German collaborators are SAP Research, DFKI GmbH, TU Darmstadt, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster, Fraunhofer IGD and TU Dresden.
Winners Selected for the RBS’ Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
Hui Xiong wins the 2007 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award with an honorable mention going to Valentin Dimitrov. Finalists were Petra Christmann and Sun Lili.
Barbara Stern Develops New Course
Barbara Stern received a Rutgers Diversity Grant to develop and teach a course on "Diverse Consumers: Ethnicity, Religion, Social Class, and Gender," taught in the Spring 2007 semester and co-sponsored by the Honors College in the college of Arts and Sciences and the Rutgers Business School. The course was the first of its kind at Rutgers as well as one of the only such courses in the U.S. The purpose of the course is to incorporate the study of diversity into that of consumer behavior, with particular concentration on diverse population subgroups based on ethnicity (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanics), religion (Catholics, Jews, Muslims), social class (lower, upper, middle), gender (women, gays, and lesbians), and age (mature Americans).
Daniel Levin's Article Selected for Bright Idea Award in Management
Professor Daniel Levin of the Department of Management and Global Business, whose article, "Perceived trustworthiness of knowledge sources: The moderating impact of relationship length" (Levin, Whitener, & Cross, 2006), published in the top-tier Journal of Applied Psychology, was selected to receive the Bright Idea Award in Management, sponsored by the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the NJPRO Foundation. The award ceremony will be on October 12, 2007.
Four RBS Professors Selected to Receive Bright Idea Award in Accounting
Professors Michael Alles, Alexander Kogan, Miklos Vasarhelyi, and J. Donald Warren's February 2006 article, "Guarding the Auditing Guards," which was published in the Institute of Management Accountants Strategic Finance Journal, has been selected to receive the Bright Idea Award in Accounting. The award is sponsored by the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and the NJPRO Foundation. All four authors will be recognized at an award ceremony on October 12, 2007.
"Business & the Arts" Program Awarded State Council on the Arts Grant
New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State (NJSCA) recently announced that it has awarded a grant in the amount of $20,000 to Rutgers Business School in support of the Rutgers Business & the Arts program, co-founded by Pat Kettenring. The grant will enable eight Rutgers Business School undergraduate and graduate students to work with the NJSCA as arts management interns during the 2007–2008 school year.
Donald McCabe Selected for the 2007 Edward F. Sheffield Award
Professor Donald McCabe's co-authored article “Understanding Academic Misconduct,” has been chosen by the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education for the Sheffield Award. The Edward F. Sheffield Award was named in honour of Ted Sheffield, the first Professor of Higher Education in Canada (University of Toronto), and founding President of the CSSHE, as a means of recognizing the research article in the
Zachary Stoumbos elected Fellow of ASA
Professor Zachary Stoumbos has recently been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the American Statistical Association, one of the youngest elected Fellows in the organization's history. Each year, ASA members nominate their peers as fellows of the ASA. From the ASA By-Laws: "By the honorary title of Fellow the Association recognizes full members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work." Given annually, this is a great honor as the numbers of recipients are limited to no more than 1/3 of 1% of the ASA.
LPS Awarded Grant
The DIMACS-CAIT Laboratory for Port Security (LPS), co-directed by Professor Benjamin Melamed, has been awarded a two-year $486,040 grant by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJ-DOT), entitled "Modeling and Analysis of Vessel Traffic in Delaware River and Bay: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Study."
