Poole College Celebrates 2023 Faculty Award Recipients and Nominees

The Poole College of Management recognized extraordinary faculty this spring with college and university awards. Meet the nominees and recipients.

Poole College Awards

Teaching Excellence Award

• Marianne Bradford, professor of accounting
• Melissa Hart, senior lecturer in finance (recipient)
• Leigh Shamblin, director of leadership and professor of practice, MIE (recipient)
• Thayer Morrill, professor of economics

Research Leadership Award

• Nathan Goldman, associate professor of accounting (recipient)
• Sebastian Heese, Owens Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
• Luca David Opromolla, Owens Distinguished Professor of International Economics
• Rishika Rishika, associate professor of marketing
• Tom Zagenczyk, professor of management

Research Impact Award

• Bruce Branson, professor of accounting and associate director of Enterprise Risk Management Initiative
• Heather Dretsch, assistant professor of marketing
• Ayse Dur, assistant professor of economics
• Rob Handfield, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and executive director of Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (recipient)
• Brad Kirkman, General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Advising

• Jay Arrington, director of admissions (recipient)
• Scott Showalter, director of Master of Accounting program and professor of practice in accounting (recipient)

Poole Student Advisory Board Outstanding Faculty Award Recipient

• Tom Byrnes, senior lecturer in marketing (recipient)

Teaching Fellows

• Bruce Branson, professor of accounting and associate director of Enterprise Risk Management Initiative (recipient)
• David Henard, professor of marketing
• Jessica Thomas, director of Business Sustainability Collaborative and associate professor of practice
• Melinda Morrill, professor of economics and director of graduate programs in economics

University Awards

University Faculty Scholars

• Nathan Goldman, associate professor of accounting (recipient)
• Elena Kulchina, associate professor of strategic management

Outstanding Teacher Awards

• Christina Lewellen, associate professor of accounting (recipient)
• Tom Byrnes, senior lecturer in marketing

Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Scott Showalter, professor of practice in accounting (nominee)

Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Mark Beasley, Alan T. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Accounting (nominee)

This post was originally published in Poole College of Management News.