For the Record, Sept. 2, 2011
University honors, staff announcements reported
12:06 p.m., Sept. 2, 2011--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Honors and staff announcements include the following:
Campus Stories
From graduates, faculty
Doctoral hooding
Honors
Armand A. Battisti, director of development in the College of Engineering, has been named the 2011 Fundraising Executive of the Year by the Brandywine Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. He will receive the award on Philanthropy Day, Nov. 16, at Deerfield Gold and Tennis Club.
Battisti joined UD in 2008, and is currently focused on preparing the College of Engineering for a future capital campaign. He shares responsibility for the $56 million fundraising effort to build the University’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory, scheduled for completion in 2013.
He previously spent nine years at Winterthur as deputy director of development and director of leadership gifts, where he successfully led several project campaigns including a multi-million dollar effort to create Enchanted Woods, the museum’s children’s garden. Prior to this appointment, he led West Chester University through its first capital campaign, Windows to the Future, raising $13 million.
Battisti’s career includes more than 30 years of institutional advancement experience with academic institutions, nonprofits and companies. His work has touched virtually all aspects of development and fundraising, including individual, corporate, foundation, planned giving, membership and government relations. He currently serves as treasurer of Brandywine AFP, and is a board member of the Engineering Development Forum.
Staff announcements
Bruce Weber, dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, has announced several positions in his office, effective Sept. 1 with three-year terms. Jack Baroudi, professor of management information systems, will serve as associate dean for graduate and executive programs. His responsibilities will include strategic planning for the MS, MBA, and EMBA programs; collaboration with corporate partners to identify learning and development needs, student employment opportunities, and executive education offerings; and leadership in curricular development for Lerner College graduate programs. Bintong Chen, whose faculty appointment will transition from a joint appointment with the College of Engineering to a full appointment in the Lerner College, will serve as associate dean for research. His responsibilities will include identification of research funding opportunities for faculty and facilitation of proposal submissions, collaboration with corporate partners to develop collaborative research, coordination between faculty and research centers and initiatives to raise the college’s research profile. Rick Andrews, professor of business administration, will continue as deputy dean. He will represent the Lerner College on behalf of the dean as needed, assist the dean in coordinating staffing and managing personnel, maintain responsibility for college policy statements and implementation and continue oversight of undergraduate programs and curriculum.
Titus Awokuse, professor of food and resource economics, will serve as chair of the Department of Food and Resource Economics effective Sept. 1. For details, see the CANR website.
John Bartley, associate professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named director of the Associate in Arts program.
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