Every year the faculty and staff of the Faculty of Business Administration accomplish significant successes in teaching and academics. The Faculty is proud to highlight some of their 2007-2008 successes below.

Teaching Awards

• Professors Joe Abekah and Elin Maher were given the Faculty’s award for teaching excellence in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Professor Maher first won the award in 1998 and is the only professor to have received the award on two separate occasions.

Research Awards

• Santosh Kabadi and Donglei Du received the faculty’s award for excellence in research in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Kabadi’s research focuses on combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, production/operations management, network flows, and matroid theory. Dr. Du's main research interests are combinatorial optimization, network flow, scheduling, approximation/online/randomized algorithms, supply chain management, computational game theory, robust optimization and its application in financial problems.
• Professors H.A. Eiselt and Kabadi both had their Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grants renewed. Dr. Eiselt’s research focuses on (competitive) location models, multi-criteria decision analysis, and alternate solution methods for linear programming. Much of his recent work has dealt with the location issues associated with waste management landfills and cellular telephone networks.
• Gopalan Srinivasan was recently awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for his work examining supply chain management/inventory theory. His other areas of interest are in working capital management, accounting policies, corporate finance, and investments.
• Donglei Du was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for the co-authored paper: "Software Release Optimization for a Non-Kalman Filter SRGM" that was presented during the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, held in Singapore in December 2007.

Promotions

• Assistant Professor Kirby Shannahan received a positive endorsement on his probationary review.
• Assistant Professor Jane Dunnett was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor
• Associate Professor Luis Zuluaga was granted tenure immediately during his probationary review. This is one of the few times that an FBA professor has been granted tenure upon probationary review.

Other Academic Accomplishments and Contributions

• Barbara Trenholm, an accounting professor, and marketing professors Kirby Shannahan and Jane Dunnett, have been studying the impact of ‘clickers’, or student response systems, in the classroom. This technology has been widely acknowledged to improve student interaction in the classroom.
  
  In 2006, while participating in a pilot study testing different models of clickers for use at UNB, they commenced a longitudinal research study. This research compared classes where all students used clickers with classes where no students had clickers, and mixed classes (some students with clickers). With the same professor teaching all classes, student attendance and performance was examined.
  
  In 2007, instructor Karen Freeman (marketing) joined the on-going research project to broaden the treatment effects to more students. The study results have generated enthusiastic discussion at both the 2007 Academy of Business Education meeting in Bermuda and the Society for Marketing Advances 2007 Conference in San Antonio, TX.