LeBow Professor Wins Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award
LeBow College of Business professor, Rajneesh Suri has been awarded the 2015 Lamb-Hair-McDaniel Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award from the Academy of Marketing Science. Professor Suri will join his two fellow 2015 awardees at the Academy of Marketing Science’s annual conference held in May. The winners will also serve as members of the 2016 Selection Committee. During the conference, Professor Suri and the other award winners will give a presentation that details their teaching philosophy.
The AMS Outstanding Marketing Teacher program was initiated in 1999 to recognize and reward excellence in teaching and to provide a forum for outstanding teachers to share their classroom success with colleagues. The award program is sponsored by Cengage Learning Lamb-Hair-McDaniel. Award winners receive a framed certificate and official recognition at the AMS annual awards lunch, make a presentation on teaching philosophy in a special session at the conference along with the other award winners and publish a one-page abstract on teaching philosophy or pedagogy in the conference proceedings.
The Academy of Marketing Science is an international, scholarly, professional organization that is dedicated to promoting high standards and excellence in the creation and dissemination of marketing knowledge and the furtherance of marketing practice through a role of leadership within the discipline of marketing around the world. The Academy began at the C. W. Post Center of Long Island University in 1971.
Professor Suri received his MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta and his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has had numerous articles published on various topics in marketing, presented his research at a number of conferences and received the 2009 Hormel Meritorious Teaching Award from the Marketing Management Association.