Two colleagues in the Department of Marketing at Florida International University, (FIU)—Peter Dickson, professor, Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair in Logistics Management, and Walfried Lassar, Ryder Professor and director, Ryder Center for Supply Chain Management and department chair—won the 2009-2010 Marvin Jolson Award for the Best Contribution to Selling and Sales Management Practice in the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. Titled “The Pursuit of Excellence in Process Thinking and Customer Relationship Management,” the paper was co-authored by Gary Hunter, formerly a faculty member in the College of Business Administration, and Samit Chakravorti (PhD ’06), now an assistant professor in the department of marketing and finance at Western Illinois University. During his 10 years at FIU, Dickson has won five best paper awards from premier journals in marketing: the four other awards were for best papers in Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing and two in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.