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FACULTY-STAFF NEWS

Del Anderson, assistant dean for financial management, retired April 30. Anderson will serve as the associate director of accounting services at California State University, San Bernardino, where she will be responsible for the fiscal operations of the university's Accounting Department. “Anderson joined the School of Business in December 2004 and has worked diligently to improve our financial operations,” said Dean Michael Knetter in announcing Anderson’s departure. “We are grateful to Del for her long hours and for the expertise she has been able to share with us.”
  
Kathryn Caggiano, assistant professor, Operations and Information
Management, will end her position with the school on June 27.

Assistant Professor Jon Eckhardt, Management and Human Resources,  recently presented a working paper at Harvard Business School co-authored with Ph.D. student Mike Ciuchta  and Associate Professor Mason Carpenter, Management and Human Resources, titled "Why Switch?: Information That Influences The Switch From Innovator To Commercial Entrepreneur." Jon Eckhardt also received an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Journal of Business Venturing.

Cynthia Devers has been named to the Academy of Management Journal’s Editorial Review Board. 

Mary Skupniewitz, student services coordinator with the Business Career Center, will retire July 31.

Michaela Aust has joined the School of Business as a university services program associate A, working with the Wisconsin Enterprise MBA Programs  (the Evening and Executive MBA programs).  Aust  previously was a department administrator for the UW-Madison Office of Orientation and New Student Programs. She earned her undergraduate degree and M.A. in North American Studies from the University of Bonn.

Monika Wingate, director of the A. C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research, will leave the school July 6 to accept a position with an area marketing research firm.

Julie Ethridge, student services coordinator with the Business Career Center, will
end her position with the school on June 30.