Rutgers Business School Professors Among Winners of 2014 Faculty Awards
Three Rutgers Business School professors were among 35 faculty members across Rutgers University who received awards on May 7 honoring them for teaching, scholarly excellence and leadership.
Professor Jeffrey Robinson, who is part of the Management and Global Business faculty, was chosen to receive the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. The award provides Robinson with $1,000 for research expenses. Dr. Robinson received a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Management from Columbia University. His research describes how business practices and entrepreneurship can be used to impact societal issues. He is the author of books and articles on such topics as social entrepreneurship, African American women in entrepreneurship, and patterns of Black employment. In 2007, he was selected as the recipient of the Aspen Institute’s Social Impact Faculty Pioneer Award for his research, service and teaching activities at the intersection of business and society. In 2011, his course, Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, was recognized as a model of Innovative Entrepreneurship Education by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Andrzej Ruszczynski, a professor in the Department of Management Science & Information Systems, received the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, which includes an honorarium of $1000. Professor Ruszczynski’s interests are in the theory, numerical methods and applications of stochastic optimization. He is author of numerous publications in operations research and applied mathematics journals such as Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research and Operations Research, and is chairman of the Stochastic Programming Committee of the Mathematical Programming Society.
Finally, Jerome Williams, received one of four awards given to individuals deemed to be Leaders in Faculty Diversity, also marked by a $1000 honorarium. Professor Williams teaches in the Marketing Department and is the Prudential Chair in Business and Research Director of The Center of Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, in the Department of Management and Global Business. He held previous Chaired positions at the University of Texas at Austin and Howard University, where he also was Director of the Center for Marketplace Diversity. He also was on the Penn State University faculty for fourteen years. He conducts research on multicultural marketing and marketplace discrimination.
