Arrivals

• Erin Nickelsburg has joined the MBA Program Office as director of MBA admissions and recruitment. Nickelsburg comes to the business school from Valparaiso University where she was the assistant director of the Graduate Programs in management. Previously, she worked for General Employment Enterprises in Chicago, Ill., and Target Corporation. Nickelsburg has her BS in Business Administration and her MBA from Valparaiso University.
• John Jensen has joined Marketing Services as an information processing consultant. He will be working with Webmaster Mark Anderson on the Wisconsin School of Business Web site. Previously, Jensen worked as an information processing consultant for the Center on Education and Work and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Jensen holds both a MS and a MA in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Carrie Hirst comes to the Wisconsin School of Business as a lecturer, supporting the Risk Management and Insurance MBA Specialization. Hirst previously worked for the Ridgeview Foundation in Waconia, Minn., as a lead gift officer and fundraising development coordinator. She has her MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and her BA from Knox College.
• Ankur Malhotra has accepted a part-time position as a lecturer in the Management and Human Resources Department. Previously, Malhotra worked for Matador Consulting LLC in Madison, Wis., as a management consultant. He was also the co-founder and former chief operations officer for The NeuronFarm LLC, an educational software information technology startup. Malhotra has his MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Management and Human Resources and his BE from the RV College of Engineering at Bangalore University.
• Rena Gelman has accepted the position of associate outreach specialist in the Small Business Development Center.  Prior to joining the Wisconsin School of Business, Gelman was the business owner and manager of Sunprint Café for over 20 years. She received her BS in English Literature from New York University.
• Mary Kull has accepted an LTE position as university services associate 2  with the Business Learning Center.
• Michelle Harris has joined Executive Education as a  university services associate 1 with Executive Education.

Departures

• Student Services Coordinator Mike Carr accepted a position with the School of Nursing after five years with business school’s Undergraduate Academic Services office.

Transitions

• Mason Carpenter, Management and Human Resources, was approved for promotion to full professor by the Wisconsin School of Business Committee of Full Professors.
• Jeff Gehrke has accepted the position of assistant dean, Undergraduate Academic Services (UAS).  Gehrke  has worked in the Wisconsin School of Business since 1990 and has been with UAS since 1994.  In announcing his selection, Dean Michael Knetter said, “Academic advising and policy are important components of our undergraduate program, even more so as we make the transition to sophomore admissions.  Jeff will play a key role is helping to ensure this change will occur as smoothly as possible.”

Accomplishments

• Dan Anderson, Leslie P. Schultz Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, was named a “Risk Innovator” in the Higher Education category by Risk Management Magazine.
• Urban Wemmerlöv, Kress Family Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management, gave an invited presentation on focused factories in healthcare at the Third Annual Conference on Innovation in Healthcare Delivery  held at Childrens’ Hospital, Cincinnati in September. 
• Professor Steve Malpezzi, Real Estate, participated in a day-long workshop at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to provide advice to HUD regarding the current housing and financial crises, and implications for national housing policy. Malpezzi also spoke at one of the “Rays of Research” programs for the Wisconsin School of Business community on “The Crisis in U.S. Housing and Financial Markets: How Did We Get Here? Which Way Out?”
• Senior Lecturer Joe Boucher, Business Law, co-authored an article for the August edition of the Wisconsin Lawyer, “Shedding Light on Recent Developments on LLC’s.”
• John Surdyk, director of the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship (INSITE), addressed a gathering of freshmen legislators from  the upper Midwest and Canada on technological innovations in “green”  infrastructure in August at the Fluno Center as part of the  Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development. Surdyk was joined on the panel, “Building and Maintaining Infrastructure: A Real Do-It-Yourself Job,” by Michael Pagano, dean of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. John Austin of the Brookings Institution moderated.
• Senior Lecturer Emeritus Rod Matthews will lead 12 students from the undergraduate International Real Estate course to Munich in early October to participate in EXPO Real, the largest European real estate conference in central Europe. Matthews, who is taking his 34th class on international travel, also will be the U.S. representative on an academic panel on international real estate education at EXPO Real.

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