Faculty Awards - Previous Years
Provost Awards
Madison Scholar Award
One individual from each college is nominated by colleagues. Award winners exemplify excellence in scholarly achievement in their respective disciplines. Winners present a lecture on their area of expertise during the academic year.
- 2024 recipient: Angela Smith, Professor, Economics
- 2023 recipient: Adam Vanhove, Associate Professor and Advisor, School of Strategic Leadership Studies
- 2022 recipient: Marshall Pattie, Professor, Business Management
- 2021 recipient: Vipul Bhatt, Economics
Distinguished Teacher Award
Award established to honor faculty members annually for exemplary teaching. Each year, the university presents the award to one faculty member in each college.
- 2024 recipient: Baback Vaziri, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics; MBA Program
- 2023 recipient: James Irving, Associate Professor, Accounting; Keiter Faculty Scholar
- 2022 recipient: Luis Novoa, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
- 2021 recipient: Bud Clarke, Director and Professor, International Business; Professor, Marketing
Distinguished Service Award
Individual is recognized for outstanding “local” service. This might involve service to the College of Business, JMU and/or the Harrisonburg/Rockingham area.
- 2024 recipient: Theresa Lind, Senior Lecturer, Hart School
- 2023 recipient: Julia Wallace Carr, Professor, Hart School of Hospitality, Sport & Recreation Management
- 2022 recipient: Susan Palocsay, Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
- 2021 recipient: Nancy Nichols, Director, M.S. in accounting program
Faculty and Staff Awards
Dr. Otto C. Brenner Memorial Award
Individual is chosen for outstanding teaching by juniors and seniors in the College of Business at the end of each academic year. Award is in honor of Dr. Otto C. Brenner, who won the award for Outstanding Undergraduate Professor more times than any other professor in the history of the College of Business.
- 2024 recipient: Carl Larsson, Associate Professor, Finance; Blue Ridge Bank Faculty Fellow
- 2023 recipient: Richard Tate, Director, Center for Professional Sales; Lecturer, Marketing
- 2022 recipient: Elias Semaan, Professor, Finance and Business Law
- 2021 recipient: James Irving, Accounting
Accenture Professional Service Award
Individual is recognized for service to the profession or discipline. This can include service associated with professional associations, journals or similar activities.
- 2024 recipient: Robert McMillen, Senior Lecturer, Marketing
- 2023 recipient: Margaret Sloan, Director and Professor, School of Strategic Leadership Studies
- 2022 recipient: Mert Tokman, Professor, Marketing and MBA Programs
- 2021 recipient: David Shonk, Sport and Recreation Management
MBA Graduate Teaching Award
Individual is recognized for outstanding teaching and/or service to the MBA Program.
- 2024 recipient: Sergiy Dmytriyev, Assistant Professor, Business Management and MBA Program
- 2023 recipient: Irana Scott, Associate Professor, Accounting and MBA Program; RFC Faculty Scholar
- 2022 recipient: Fariss Mousa, Professor, Business Management
- 2021 recipient: Mert Tokman, Marketing and MBA program
Professional Staff Service Award
Individual is recognized for outstanding work in support of the JMU College of Business.
- 2024 recipient: Tanya Monger, Office Coordinator and Advisor, Advising and Support Center
- 2023 recipient: Amy Smith, Administrative Assistant, Economics and International Business
- 2022 recipient: Katrina Spickler, Fiscal Technician, Dean's Office
- 2021 recipients: Judy Onestak, Administrative Assistant, Dean's Office; Sara Hodges, Hart School
Administrative and Professional Faculty Service Award
Individual is recognized for outstanding work in support of the JMU College of Business.
- 2024 recipient: Erica Kann, Assistant Director, Office of Professional Development and Engagement
- 2023 recipient: Emilie Bradshaw, Academic Advisor for Marketing, Advising and Support Center
- 2022 recipient: Carolyn "Carrie" Wood, Director of Marketing and Communications, Dean's Office
Publication Awards
Basic or Discovery Publication Award
- 2024 recipients:
- 1st Place: Rhonda Syler, Academic Unit Head and R. Jarl Bliss Faculty Fellow, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
- 2nd Place: Xu Niu, Assistant Professor, Finance
- 3rd Place: Jaideep Chowdhury, Professor, Finance and Business Law, and Weiwei Zhang, Associate Professor, Finance and Business Law
- 3rd Place: Hoda Atef Yekta, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
- 2023 recipients:
- 1st Place: Sergiy Dmytriyev, Assistant Professor, Business Management and MBA Program
- 2nd Place: Charlene Kalenkoski, Academic Unit Head and Professor, Economics
- 3rd Place: Raktim Pal, Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics and MBA Program
- 2022 recipients:
- 1st place: Sergiy Dmytriyev, Business Management
- 2nd place: Corbin Fox, Finance
- 3rd place: Matthew Reidenbach, Accounting
Applied or Integration/Application Publication Award
- 2024 recipients:
- 1st Place: Tim Ozcan, Associate Professor, Marketing, MBA Program
- 2nd Place: Raktim Pal, Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics; Kirby L. Cramer Chair of Business Administration; MBA Program
- 3rd Place: Matthew Reidenbach, Assistant Professor, Accounting; Hantzmon Wiebel, LLP Faculty Scholar
- 2023 recipients
- 1st Place: Jason Fink, Professor, Finance; Wallace Chandler/Universal Corporation Eminent Scholars Professorship in Banking, and Kristin Fink, Professor, Finance
- 2nd Place: William Ritchie, Professor and CSX Professor, Business Management, and Eric Stark, Associate Professor, Business Management and MBA Program
- 3rd Place: Ping Wang, Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics, and Raktim Pal, Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics and MBA Program
- 2022 recipients:
- 1st place: Kelly Naletelich, Marketing
- 2nd place: Ping Wang, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics; Raktim Pal, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
Teaching and Learning Publication Award
This individual develops and advances new understandings, insights and teaching content and methods that impact learning behavior. Intellectual contributions in this category are normally intended to impact the teaching and/or pedagogy of business and management.
- 2024 recipients:
- 1st Place: William Ritchie, Professor and CSX Professor, Business Management; Luis Novoa, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics; MBA Program; Mert Tokman, Professor, Marketing and MBA Program; Global Supply Chain Management Minor, Program Co-coordinator; Kenneth R. Bartee Endowed Professor
- 2nd Place: Matthew Reidenbach, Assistant Professor, Accounting; Hantzmon Wiebel, LLP Faculty Scholar
- 2023 recipients
- 1st Place: Janna Parker, Associate Professor, Marketing
- 2nd Place: Carl Larsson, Associate Professor, Finance; Blue Ridge Bank Faculty Fellow, and William Ritchie, Professor and CSX Professor, Business Management
- 3rd Place: Baback Vaziri, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics and MBA Program, and Luis Novoa, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics and MBA Program, and Elham Torabi, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
- 2022 recipients:
- 1st place: Laura Leduc, Business Management; Matthew Rutherford, Business Management; Director of MBA Programs
- 2nd place: Dmytro Babik, Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics; Diane Lending, Computer Information Systems & Business Analytics
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