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Professor Joan Schmit, Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, is a contributing researcher on a project that has just been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project, "Developing New Risk-Based Capital Standards Across Europe," received an award of approximately $105,000. The principal investigator is Hato Schmeiser, chair for Risk Management and Insurance in the Institute of Insurance Economics at St. Gallen University in Switzerland.

Professor Urban Wemmerlöv, Kress Family Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and Director of the Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management, has written the fourth most widely cited paper published in the Journal of Operations Management since 1985. The article, "Procedures for the Part Family/Machine Group Identification Problem in Cellular Manufacturing," was co-authored with Professor Nancy Hyer of the Owen School of Management, Vanderbilt University.

Professor Francois Ortalo-Magne, Real Estate and Urban Economics has been named by AFIRE to direct the Annual Foreign Investment Survey, which provides important insights into the activity of foreign investors in the U.S. The survey, which will be released by the association at a conference in New York City in January, will assess the plans, decision factors and opinions of AFIRE members regarding real estate investment opportunities.

Marketing Professor Craig Thompson was one of four faculty members from schools around the world asked to participate last month in a Ph.D. seminar at the University of Southern Denmark - Odense on "Consumption Theory: Canon of Classics." Thompson also presented at a PhD conference of the Association of Consumer Research at the end of September. Thompson chaired two panels of the conference on behalf of Marketing Professor Tom O'Guinn, who withdrew due to health problems.

In July, Assistant Professor Jon Eckhart, Management and Human Resources, gave an invited paper on the relationship between non-commercial and commercial innovation in entrepreneurship at the Max Planck institute for economics in Germany.

Professor Dan Anderson, Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, participated in a variety of presentations and events in September. He was a speaker on the Global Warming Panel and the Climate Change Panel as well as presenter on "Sustainability Risk Management" at the Advanced Environmental Risk Management Strategies Conference.

Professor Anne Miner, Management and Human Resources, John Hoffman and Peter Munoz were part of a local panel on Sept. 21 at the Pyle Center for the MIT Enterprise Forum/MIT Club of Wisconsin. The panel discussed "Developmental Entrepreneurship Overseas and in Wisconsin." The local panel discussion was part of a MIT Enterprise Forum Global broadcast that examined global entrepreneurship issues.

John Surdyk, director of the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship, authored a chapter of a book. "Business: the Ultimate Resource" is the just published second edition of a one-stop reference tool on business concepts that bills itself as "An MBA between two covers." Surdyk contributed a chapter giving an overview of corporate social responsibility, both as a movement and as a collection of business practices. He explores how many corporate social responsibility practices contribute to economic and social well-being and provides ideas for managers about where to begin their own efforts in this area.

A radio program co-hosted by Joan Gillman, director of Special Industry Programs within Executive Education, premiered Sept. 18 on Madison 1670. "On Air with In Business" airs Monday through Friday from 7 to 8 p.m. Gillman's co-host is Jody Glenn Patrick, publisher of In Business Magazine. The broadcasts are also podcast at Madison1670.com.

Arrivals

Tina Frailey joins the School of Business as public relations director in the Office of Marketing and Communication as of Oct. 13. She comes to the School of Business from the Overture Center for the Arts, where she has been director of press and community relations since 2000. Prior to her work maintaining local and national media relationships for the Overture Center, she spent three years as marketing director of the Madison Repertory Theatre. She earned her M.A. in arts administration from the School of Business in 1997 and a bachelor's of music in music education from James Madison University in 1995.

Jennifer Smet has accepted the position of student services coordinator in the Center for Brand and Product Management beginning Oct. 2, replacing Sarah Tueting. She comes to the School of Business from Edgewood College, where she had been associate director of career services since 2001. She has an M.A. in education from the University of Northern Illinois and a B.A. in French from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

There's a familiar face in the Copy Center. Carole Volk has returned to the Copy Center as an LTE university services associate 2.

Another familiar face is Susan Sprague, who is back with the Accounting Department as assistant director of the Five-Year Professional Program in Accounting. Judy Schaeffer is a university services program associate B with the Accounting Department.

Departures

Jim Scallon, program assistant supervisor in the Copy Center, will retire Jan. 3. His last day in the office will be Oct. 13.

After six years of service to the Undergraduate Programs Office and the School of Business, Corey Campbell left his position as student status examiner on Sept. 29 to accept another position on campus. Assistant Dean Jo Meier said, "Corey will be missed greatly by the staff of the Undergraduate Programs Office."