A distinguished professorship in marketing named in honor of football and military hero—the late Pat Tillman—has been awarded to Michael Mokwa, chair of the marketing department at the W. P. Cary School of Business at Arizona State University.

In addition to holding the Pat Tillman Foundation Distinguished Professor in Leadership and Marketing, Mokwa also will be the faculty director of the Leadership Through Action program, a joint project between the Pat Tillman Foundation and the W. P. Carey School. The program will launch this fall with the first class of 14 Tillman Foundation scholars enrolled in the W. P. Cary School and/or Barrett Honors College.

Tillman, a summa cum laude undergraduate at the Carey School, was a three-year All-American in football and went on to play four years with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. Following the 9/11 tragedy, he gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers and in 2004 was killed in action in Iraq.

"Having Mike Mokwa as the first Pat Tillman Foundation Distinguished Professor in Leadership and Marketing is fitting because Mike knew Pat and was inspired by him," said Alex Garwood, executive director of the Pat Tillman Foundation. "Mike’s background as a leading educator and marketing expert makes him the ideal choice to take this program forward."

The holder of MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Houston, Mokwa formerly served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of three books and his research and writings investigate the strategic initiatives, competencies, and economic impacts of sports organizations

Four members of the business faculty at Loyola Marymount University have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2005-06 academic year. They are among 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year to lecture and conduct research.

Kweku Ewusi-Mensah, professor of computer information systems, will lecture and conduct research at the University of Ghana in Legon. Edward Park, director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and coordinator of American Cultures, will teach two American studies courses at Japan Women's University and the Institute for American Studies on the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo. Charles Vance, professor of management, earned both a scholar award and a Fulbright Senior Specialist award. His scholar award will commence in February 2006 in China where he will conduct applied research on training methods to maximize employee learning. Anatoly Zhuplev, associate professor of management, will lecture at the Warsaw (Poland) School of Economics and conduct courses in international business, international entrepreneurship, and international trade.

The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the United States Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, increases mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.

Lemma Senbet, holder of the William E. Mayer Chair in Finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, recently was granted an honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa from his alma mater, Addis Ababa University, the oldest higher educational institution in Ethiopia. Senbet was honored for his outstanding contributions to the discipline and practice of finance.

Born in Ethiopia, Senbet is a well-recognized finance expert, as well as a frequent speaker on emerging markets. His research accomplishments are documented through his supervision of numerous doctoral students who have gone on to become professors at leading institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Minnesota.

Keith Rollag, assistant professor in the management division at Babson College, has been presented with the 2005 New Educator Award from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. The society is a national academic organization focused on improving management education.

The award honors the teacher who has shown early promise in making a difference in the field of management education by demonstrating new ways of thinking about leadership, teamwork, and employee motivation. The award praises Rollag for his emphasis on student learning and his development of in-class management simulations, as well as his focus on the scholarship of teaching.

Rollag is the holder of bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Washington University. He also worked as a product development manager at Procter & Gamble before earning his PhD from Stanford University.