BUSINESS PEOPLE

ARCHITECTURE

Randy Hudson, managing partner for Hayes Large Architects’ State College office, recently conducted an educational session for school board members and administrators at the Pennsylvania School Board Association’s School Design and Construction Summit in Philadelphia entitled “Lessons Learned from the First Generation of Green Schools.”

Hudson led the design of one of the earliest LEED certified green schools in the nation, Wrightsville Elementary. He also designed both his State College office and home to green standards.

MEDIA

Town&Gown magazine recently won a Press Club of Western PA Golden Quill Award for Best Sports Feature in a Magazine.

The award was given to Frank Bodani’sstory “Who’s the One?” that appeared in Town&Gown’s 2008 Penn State Football Annual. The story looked at the lives of Penn State quarterbacks Daryll Clark and Pat Devlin.

Bodani covers Penn State for the York Daily Record and is a freelance writer for Town&Gown and its sports annuals.

RESEARCH

A research paper co-authored by three Penn State Smeal College of Business marketing professors has been named the best paper to appear in the Journal of Modeling in Management in the past year.

“The Simultaneous Identification of Strategic/Performance Groups and Underlying Dimensions for Assessing an Industry’s Competitive Structure” was published in Vol. 3, No. 3, of the journal in 2008.

Its authors areWayne DeSarbo,Smeal chair distinguished professor of marketing, Rajdeep Grewal,professor of marketing,Qiong Wang,assistant professor of marketing, andHeungsun Hwang,of McGill University.

Daniel Cahoy,an associate professor of business law at Smeal, will receive a Fulbright award to study how different governments reconcile conflicts between human rights and intellectual property law.

Cahoy will spend the fall semester at the University of Ottawa in Canada as the Fulbright visiting chair in international humanitarian law.

His research will look at how different regimes balance the need to protect property rights in the pharmaceutical industry while also increasing access to needed medicines in developing countries.

TOURISM/ HOSPITALITY

Shirley Smith,of the Central Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau, has earned a designation as a certified sports event executive from the National Association of Sports Commissions at its annual sports event symposium in April.

The conference included the recognition of 19 graduates of the Certified Sports Event Executive Program.

The program is a continuing education program where participants are provided with cutting-edge knowledge about the sports event industry.