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 20^th, 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