Accolades: Week of September 10, 2001

RPI Air Force ROTC Assistant Professor Captain Jeffrey Englert '90 was promoted to the rank of Major on Aug. 31 by his father, the Honorable Dennis Englert, a justice in the town of Glenville. Major Englert commanded the 70-member RPI Air Force cadet corps and has taught Aerospace Studies as an assistant professor since 1998. Englert is leaving Rensselaer for an assignment in Germany with the United States Air Forces Europe. "While the Air Force ROTC program loses an RPI alumnus, it will soon be gaining another," said ROTC Captain Kerry Strait. Captain Andrew DeRosa '97 will arrive on campus later this fall from Guam, Strait said. 9/10/01

Faye Duchin, dean of humanities and social sciences and professor of economics, participated in a set of seminars titled "Humanity in the Year 3000." The August event was organized by the Foundation for the Future in Seattle, Wash. 9/4/01

Kevin Blodgett '02, Dave Johnson '02, and Todd Murphy '02, along with a friend from Colorado Christian University, biked from Oregon to Georgia over the summer. To read more about their trip, visit their Web site at www.angelfire.com/trek/Oregon2Georgia. 9/4/01

Several faculty members in the Lally School were honored with "best paper" awards by the Academy of Management in August. Gideon Markman, Robert Baron, and D. Balkin were awarded the Best Paper Award, Entrepreneurship Division, for their paper "Adversity quotient: The role of perseverance in new venture formation." Thiagarajan Ravichandran was honored by the Management Information Systems Division for his paper, "Innovation assimilation in the presence of knowledge barriers, technology uncertainty, and adoption risks." 9/4/01

And Shikhar Sarin, Stacy Barlow, and S.B. Hills were honored by the American Marketing Association's Technology and Marketing Division for their paper, "First amongst equals: The effect of team leadership characteristics on the internal dynamics of cross-functional product development teams." 9/4/01

Transitions

Kim Fortun, associate professor of science and technology studies, has been named associate dean for graduate programs and research initiatives in H&SS. Fortun received her Ph.D. from Rice University in 1993. Her teaching covers globalization, environmental issues, and the history and social dimensions of information technology. Her research focuses on the ways scientific and technological developments create both ethical challenges and ethical opportunities. Fortun has been active in the development of the information technology program since its inception and served on the Faculty Senate and its Executive Committee. 9/4/01

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