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headlines SHORT TAKES teaching excellence at Columbia Business School in New York City. He will head the Arthur J. Sam- berg Institute for Teaching Excellence and will lead the school's mentoring program for new faculty members. n U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated Carl Shapiro as a member of the Council of Economic Advi- sors. Shapiro, a professor of business and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently on leave to work as the deputy assistant attorney general for economics in the U.S. Department of Justice's anti- trust division. The Council of Economic Advisors provides the president with advice on domestic and international economic policy. Once con- firmed by the U.S. Senate, Shapiro will succeed Cecilia Rouse, who will be leav- ing the council to return to Princeton University. n Celebrity-level faculty appointments will bring real- world knowledge into classes at two top busi- ness schools. Former NBC president and CEO Jeff Zucker will join Columbia Business School in New York City as a new executive 18 May/June 2011 BizEd in residence. Zucker spent more than 24 years with NBC. Meanwhile, former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm and her husband, Daniel Mulhern, are teach- ing interdisciplinary courses on energy, leadership, state budgets, and the economy in the schools of law, busi- ness, and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Granholm is a two- term governor who focused on strengthening her state's economy; Mulhern is a leadership coach, radio talk- show host, and author of books on leadership. n Karen Forrest Turner has been elect- ed as the Moun- tain Regional Director of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Board of Direc- tors for 2010–2011. Turner is director of accounting and CIS at the University of Northern Colorado's Monfort College of Business in Gree- ley, Colorado. She is also an associate professor in accounting at the college. Moving On n Ginny Dybenko is step- ping down from her position as dean of the School of Business & Economics at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Dur- ing her tenure, Dybenko focused on establishing a strategic direction for the faculty, securing international partnerships, and integrating technology into the business curriculum. Dybenko joined the school in 2006 and was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women two years later. She plans to pursue other opportunities within the university. n Thomas E. Moore has retired as dean of North- eastern University's College of Business Administration in Boston, Massachusetts, for health reasons. Under his leadership, the college launched its online MBA, enhanced the undergradu- ate student profile, received national ranking for its full-time MBA program, and expanded its executive education pro- grams. The new acting dean of the school is Harry Lane, who joined the college in 1999 as the first Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business. n After ten years of service as dean of Fairfield Univer- sity's Charles F. Dolan School of Business in Con- necticut, Norm Solomon will step down in June. Under Solomon's leadership, the school created endowed chairs for faculty, initiated student exchange programs with European universities, focused on transformative social engagement through efforts such as the Center for Microfinance, and achieved reaccreditation through AACSB International. Solo- mon will take a yearlong sab- batical before returning to Fairfield in 2012 to teach and conduct research. Honors and Awards n Jerry Trapnell has received the 2011 Federation of Schools of Accountancy– Joseph A. Silvoso Fac- ulty Merit Award. Trapnell is executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International, based in Tampa, Florida. The award, the highest given by the orga- nization, honors an outstand- ing contribution by a faculty member in a post-baccalau- reate professional program of an FSA member school.