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BusinessWomanof theYearAssistantprofessor ofmanagement DariaCrawley, Ph.D., wasnamed Business Womanof the Year by the OnyxWoman Network,a Pittsburghcommunicationscompany forAfrican-Americanprofessionals. Crawley,who joined the RMU faculty in 2005,was honored for her business educationcareer and for her volunteerism. She ischairwoman of the WQED communityadvisory board.Onyx founder and RMU trustee OlaJackson ’87 said Crawley is “greatlyadmired for being a crucial influence tothe students at RMU, as well as a rolemodel for up-and-coming professionals.”Crawley is an expert on diversity and hasresearched public policy legislation for amember of the British Parliament. She isformer director of research for the Centerfor Organizational and LeadershipEffectiveness, and previously workedat Transamerica Corp.> Faculty Facts> FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THIS YEAR'S PROMOTIONS, VISIT WWW.RMU.EDU/FOUNDATIONS> Strength and SmartsTrack and field standout Tara Maxwell ’09 can wing a discus and heavea shot put with the best of them, but she doesn’t leave it all on the field.The manufacturing engineering major graduated with a 3.99 cumulativeQPA, earning her the title of Northeast Conference Female Scholar-Athleteof the Year.The athletic conference also honored two RMU teams for earning thehighest average QPA in 2008-09. Women’s tennis athletes finished withan average 3.52 in the past year, and the softball team members posteda 3.63, the highest team QPA of any sport in the league. In all, nearly 65percent of all RMU’s student-athletes earned a 3.0 or higher QPAlast year.Maxwell is the second RMU female student-athlete in three years to behonored with the individual award. Former volleyball player Lisa Jaszkawon the inaugural NEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2007.Maxwell is now working as a manufacturing engineer forPhilips Respironics, where she already is overseeing thetransfer of several new product assembly lines to thecompany's Murrysville plant.Eighteen faculty members receivedpromotions this year, includingtwo new university professors:Dean Manna, Ph.D., professorof marketing and head of thedepartment of marketing, andMurat Tiryakioğlu, Ph.D.,professor of engineering.The School of Communicationsand Information Systems has filledthree leadership positions: PeterDraus, Ed.D., is now head of thedepartment of organizational studies,Rex Crawley, Ph.D., is assistant dean, andDavid Wood, Ph.D., is associate dean.Angela Macci Bires,Ed.D., is nowhead of the newdepartment ofhealth sciences in theSchool of Nursing and Health Sciences. Bireshas been at RMU since 2006 as director ofthe nuclear medicine technology program.4 • W W W. R M U . E D U