LehighNow Volume 03, Issue 16

              LEHIGHNOW
May 28, 2003
Volume 3, Issue 16
IN BRIEF
HONORS/AWARDS
Accounting
research journal
earns top award
Accounting Horizons, a
quarterly research journal
edited for the past three
years by Jim Largay,
professor of accounting,
received the Emerald
Management Review's
(EMR) 2003 Golden Page
Award for "Readability
of Research" in the
Accounting and Finance
journal category.
Based in the UK,
Emerald publishes 150
journals. In addition,
each year it evaluates
articles in the top 400
management periodicals
in the world in six
research and readability
areas. Specialist reviewers examine more than
18,000 articles each year
and EMR recognizes the
highest-ranked journal in
each functional management category with Golden
Page Awards.
"This type of independent, unsolicited
recognition of our work at
Accounting Horizons, and
the untold hours I spend
as editor with green pen
in hand, comprehensively
editing all published
articles, is highly
gratifying," Largay says.
Largay attended the
April 24 awards ceremony
in London to receive the
award.
Russert exhorts
Class of 2003
to help others
As the Lehigh graduates of
2003 marched into
Goodman Stadium on May
18, they glowed, partly
from the bright sun of a
perfect spring morning, but
more so because of their
passage into what Gregory
Farrington, Lehigh
president, termed "life, as
in 'real.'"
A total of 1,185 students
earned degrees as members
of the Class of '03—902
bachelor's degrees, 239
master's degrees, and 44
doctoral degrees. Of the
graduating students, 403
hailed from the local area,
and 24 were from countries
outside the U.S., from the
Bahamas to Germany to
Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press and senior vice president of
NBC News addresses the Class of 2003.
Thailand.
The commencement
ceremony presented
students, faculty, and
parents with messages
about family values, lifelong
learning, and a few humorous anecdotes from keynote
speaker Tim Russert, host of
Meet the Press and senior
vice president of NBC News.
To open the ceremony,
Farrington urged the
graduates to "be good sons
and daughters, fathers and
mothers, brothers and sisters,
and important members of your
civic community."
Please See RUSSERT, Page 4
Outstanding
faculty
honored
Lehigh University awards
for excellence in teaching,
research and service were
recently announced at the
Annual Faculty Dinner on
May 7.
The award winners were:
Henri J. Barkey, professor
of international relations
and head of that department, who received the
2003 Eleanor and Joseph F.
Libsch Research Award;
Elizabeth Dolan, assistant
professor of English, who
received the 2003 Lehigh
Junior Award for Distinguished Teaching; Jennifer
L. Gagliardi, a teaching
assistant in the biological
services department, who
received the 2002-03 Lehigh
University Teaching
Assistant Award; Heather
B. Johnson, assistant
professor of sociology, who
received the 2003 Alfred
Noble Robinson Award;
Michael R. Kuchka,
associate professor of
biological sciences, who
received the 2003 Stabler
Award for Excellence in
Teaching; Rajan Menon, the
Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations, who received the 2003
Eleanor and Joseph F. Libsch
Research Award; Keith J.
Schray, professor of
chemistry, who received the
2003 Hillman Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate
Advising; Roger D. Simon,
professor of history, who
received the 2003 Christian
and Mary F. Lindback
Award for Distinguished
Teaching; K. Sivakumar,
associate professor of
management and marketing,
who received the 2003 Carl
R. and Ingeborg Beidleman
Research Award; Jean R.
Soderlund, professor of
history, chair of that department, and co-director of the
Lawrence Henry Gipson
Institute for Eighteenth-
Century Studies at Lehigh,
who received the 2003
Hillman Faculty Award; and
Harvey G. Stenger, professor
of chemical engineering, who
received the 2003 Hillman
Award for Excellence in
Graduate Advising.
Henri J. Barkey is the
Bernard L. and Bertha F.
Please See FACULTY, Page 2
Announcement
This is the final issue of
Lehigh Now in this print
format. In the fall, we will
unveil an exciting new
web-based version that
will provide enhanced
coverage of faculty and
staff news in a more
timely fashion.