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Faculty and Staff Achievements (continued)of marketing and services marketingat Cambodia’s National University ofManagement. The Fulbright ScholarProgram is highly prestigious and is theU.S. Government’s flagship program inthe international education arena.Nancy L. Russo, Department ofOperations Management andInformation Systems, was namedthe Pavlovic professor of informationsystems. The Pavlovic professorship issponsored by Mike and Mira Pavlovic.Rebecca Shortridge, the Gaylen andJoanne Larsonprofessor of accountancyin theDepartment ofAccountancy, receivedthe Gaylenand Joanne Larsonprofessorship.David Sinason, PricewaterhouseCoopersprofessor of accountancy in theDepartment of Accountancy, was appointedto the Boardof Advisors for InternalAuditing Magazine.Sinason also receivedthe PricewaterhouseCoopersprofessorship.Pam Smith, KPMG professor of accountancy,was named the IllinoisC.P.A. Society’s 2008 Educator of theYear. The Illinois C.P.A. Society (ICPAS)is a statewide, professional membershiporganization that serves students,educators, and related finance professionals.Greg Stock, professor in the Departmentof Operations Managementand Information Systems, had anarticle entitled “Hospital Operations andLength of Stay Performance” featuredin the August 2007 “Monthly Highlights”on the Emerald website. Stock’s researchstudy was one of only 10 selectedby Emerald each month, out of anaverage of 450 new research articlesand case studies. Stock’s research waspublished in the International Journal ofOperations and Production Management.Don Tidrick, Deloitteprofessor of accountancyin theDepartment of Accountancy,receivedthe 2007-2008 NationalAuthor Awardfrom the Association of Government Accountants(AGA). Tidrick was selectedto receive the award based upon hisarticle “An Interview with Elmer Staats,Former Comptroller General of theUnited States: The First in a Three-PartSeries,” which appeared in the Journalof Government Financial Management insummer 2006.Sally Webber, HSBC professor of accountancy,was one of three womenfrom the faculty and staff ranks to behonored by the NIU Presidential Commissionon the Status of Women. Thecommission gave Webber the 2008 NIUOutstanding Mentor designation for hertireless commitment over the years tomentoring students and fellow facultymembers.Dan Weilbaker,McKesson PharmaceuticalGroupprofessor of sales inthe Department ofMarketing, receivedNIU’s OutstandingInternational Educator Award for 2007.Weilbaker has worked to infuse globalbusiness experiences into the professionalsales program by engaging in ongoinginternational alliances with universities inIreland and Austria, respectively. Thesealliances – which were formed nearly fiveyears ago – have facilitated exchangeprograms between the international studentsand American students and faculty.Jim Young, Crowe Chizek professorof accountancy and chair of the Departmentof Accountancy, receivedthe NIU PresidentialTeaching Professorshipfor 2007-2011. Inthe research arena,Young’s co-conductedresearch findingswere reviewed in theWall Street Journal and AOL Money &Finance. The media story – “An Early Lookat Tax Brackets for Next Year” – ran onSeptember 26, 2007. Young’s co-authorsare George Jones of CCH and WilliamMassey, RIA tax analyst at Thomson Tax &Accounting.Shaokun Carol Yu, assistant professorof accountancy, co-authored a studywhich received Best Paper Award at the2008 Midwest Regional Meeting of theAmerican Accounting Association. Yu’sco-authors are Dana Hollie, University ofColorado at Boulder, and Robin Tarpley,George Washington University.32 | NIU College of Business www.cob.niu.edu Where the Classroom Meets the Business World
On the MoveNew FacultyOffice of the DeanPaul Prabhaker, Associate DeanPaul Prabhaker earned an M.S. ineconometrics (1984) and his Ph.D.in marketing from the University ofRochester. An accomplished teacherscholarin the area of technologyenabledmarketing strategy,Prabhaker has published more than50 articles in leading journals such as the Journalof Marketing Research, the Journal of AdvertisingResearch, the Journal of Psychology and Marketing,the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, theInternational Journal of Technology Management, andthe Journal of Consumer Marketing, among others. Asa teacher, Prabhaker has received outstanding teacherawards from three different universities. Over the lastseven years, Prabhaker has worked as dean/associatedean with the University of North Carolina and the IllinoisInstitute of Technology. He has employed his extensivefamiliarity with AACSB standards to lead these twoschools to successful AACSB accreditation. On theglobal front, Prabhaker has utilized his relationshipbuildingskills to forge international academicpartnerships with over a dozen overseas academicinstitutions. Professionally, Prabhaker has worked withthe business community in the areas of strategy andtechnology/marketing interface. Prabhaker has beennominated and listed in Who’s Who in the East (1987),Who’s Who in Advertising (1990), and Who’s Who in theWorld (1991).Department of AccountancyMark Riley, Assistant ProfessorMark Riley earned a B.S. inaccountancy from the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign (1987),an M.S. in accountancy from NewMexico State University (2004), andhis Ph.D. at Texas Tech University(2007). Riley is a certified publicaccountant and has worked in both public accountingand industry. Mark’s most recent position in industry wasas controller of a mid-sized, publicly traded company.Carol Yu, Assistant ProfessorShaokun Carol Yu has a bachelor’s degree from JilinUniversity in China as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. inaccountancy from the University of Houston. Yu is also acertified public accountant.Department of FinanceLeonard Lundstrum (B.S. Finance 1989), AssociateProfessorLeonard Lundstrum earned a B.S. infinance and accountancy from NIU,an M.S. in finance from the Universityof Illinois, and a Ph.D. in financefrom Indiana University. Lundstrum’sresearch focuses on asset pricingand corporate finance, and has beenpublished in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, theJournal of Corporate Finance, Financial Review, andthe Journal of Portfolio Management. Prior to earninghis doctoral degree, Lundstrum worked in merchantbanking in Chicago. He also served as a consultant inthe financial industry and moderated symposia panels offinancial executives and portfolio managers.NIU Business 2008 | 33
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