Excellence in Teaching and Research Award Recipients

Each year the School of Business Administration recognizes faculty members for exemplary dedication to student advancement and business research.

Below are the current recipients along with a bit about their excellent work.

Amanuel Tekleab, Associate Professor of Management

2012 Teaching Winner

Honored with the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award, Professor Tekleab is committed to seeing his students succeed. His teachingphilosophy notes that real learning in management classes occurs through continual interaction between the instructor and the students. Highly respected by students, the Business Student Senate awarded him the Best Professor of Business Award in 2009.

Professor Tekleab is an active researcher, publishing eight articles in peer-reviewed journals in the past five years. He also serves on nine editorial boards for scholarly management journals, while assisting with the Ph.D. program.

Abhijit Biswas, Kmart Endowed Chair and Professor of Marketing

2012 Research Winner

Professor Biswas is a prolific researcher whose intellectual contributions have harned him the respect and admiration of his fellow academics, and recently, recognition by the Journal of Business Research as the 10th highest published author in the pricing area in the past 30 years. In just the last three years he has published five articles, eight conference papers and several manuscripts. He also serves on three editorial review boards.

In addition, Biswas works to mentor junior marketing faculty and doctoral students. He has been instrumental in developing the marketing Ph.D. program, and teaches two doctoral seminars.