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Kathryn Mercer, a professor of legal analysis and writing, will serve as a U.S. delegate and a judge at the International Negotiation Competition. INC is a law student competition in which a team of two law students representing a party/client negotiates either an international transaction or the re...

J.B. Silvers, John R. Mannix/Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Management, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Weatherhead School of Management during the next three-and-a-half months, until Dean-Elect Rob Widing starts Oct. 15. He starts his new position Sunday. “J.B. brings t...

Suzanne Rivera, associate vice president for research, recently was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the National Council of University Research Administrators beginning Jan. 1, 2013. Rivera, a member of the 7,000-member non-profit higher-education association since 2002, has served i...

LaShanda Korley, the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Case School of Engineering, is one of 78 young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The symposium will be held Sept. 13-15 at the General Motor...

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ President Barbara R. Snyder has been elected vice chair of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), the nation’s oldest organization dedicated to addressing the country’s most pressing academic and workforce challenges. “I am honored to have this opportunity to wo...

The Academy of Nursing Education’s National League for Nursing has selected Mary Quinn Griffin to be a member of its sixth group of fellows. Quinn Griffin, an associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was selected for her evidence of enduring and substantial contributions t...

Ruby L. Gibbons, a graduate student in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently was elected regional director of an Ohio chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Gibbons was elected to a two-year term as regional director of region eight, which includes Ashland, Coshocto...

Susan Case, associate professor of organizational behavior, has been named an inaugural Kaufman Scholar for 2012-13 at the Center for Financial Policy of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. The Kaufman Scholars will meet twice in fall 2012 and for a week in spring ...

Edwin B. Mayes has joined the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ community as director of First Year Experience. He will report directly to the vice president for enrollment management. In his new position, Mayes will be responsible for leadership and vision of all new student and parent programs as w...

Barbara Juknialis, administrative director of biomedical ethics, and Michael Gilkey, acting executive director of the National Center for Regenerative Medicine, have been elected to the Staff Advisory Council. Juknialis will be vice chair of the council, and Gilkey will be secretary. Their terms in ...