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FACULTY-STAFF NEWS

Sung Kim, assistant professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management, will serve as an associate editor of Information Systems Research, a premier journal in the information systems field. 

Mo O’Connor, an academic advisor in the Undergraduate Programs Office, is being honored this month by Community Shares of Wisconsin as a Backyard Hero for her volunteer work with the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools.

Carol Aspinwall and two Erdman Center students attended the Association for Operations Management (APICS) International Conference in Orlando this fall. Aspinwall presented a session at the conference on working with APICS international members. The Erdman Center students participated in the organization’s  first international student case competition.  In November, Aspinwall hosted a group of international students from the Erdman Center and members of the Graduate Business Christian Fellowship for an Un-Traditional Thanksgiving meal. Dishes from Korea, India, China and Taiwan were served, along with traditional American Thanksgiving fare.
 
Joan Gillman, director of special industries programs for the School of  Business,  continues to co-host a radio program on Madison 1670 AM, Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. Gillman  joins Jody Glynn Patrick, publisher of In Business magazine, for the program, "On Air with In Business" interviewing a variety of guests on topics of interest to a general business audience.  Program listeners also hear 30-second, on-air spots promoting various offerings of the School of Business. If you have a program you would like mentioned in these spots, please contact Lari Fanlund in the Office of Marketing and Communication.
 
Several School of Business faculty and classified or academic staff were granted emerita/emeritus status upon retirement by Chancellor John Wiley this fall. They include: Ruth Dahl, Sandra Ihle, Rod Matthews, Susan Sprague, Sandra Stark and Karen Stauffacher.

Arrivals

Kay Bradley joined the Undergraduate Programs Office in November as a new university services program associate A. She comes to the School of Business from the School of Medicine and Public Health, were she has been a student services coordinator.  She has a B.S. in business from UW-Parkside.

Linda Taylor has accepted a new position in the Copy Center, program assistant supervisor.  She replaces Jim Scallon.  Prior to joining the Copy Center in 2004, she had been with the Department of Physics-Plasma.  Taylor worked in the School of Business Copy Center previously, from 1994 to 1996, and worked in Executive  Education from 1996 to 1999.

Katherine Esposito  joined the Center for Real Estate as an associate outreach specialist in November. She has been a writer and editor for her own personal communications business, Scoop Communications, working with a wide range of clients.  She has worked with the UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations, the Wisconsin Technology Network and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.  Esposito has a B.A. in history from UW-Madison.

Jacob Miller has accepted the position of student status examiner 2 in the Undergraduate Programs Office, effective Dec. 5. He comes to the School of Business from the UW-Madison  Nephrology Section, where he was a financial specialist. He has a degree in journalism from UW-Madison and is working on his master’s from the La Follette School of  Public Affairs.

James Woodrum has accepted the position of faculty associate with Executive Education as program director in the mid-management program area.  He has been an executive compensation consultant with Hewitt Associates LLC since 1984. He has a B.S. in finance from Millikin University and an M.M. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.