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an associate professor of marketing and a professional certified marketer; other faculty in the program have both Ph.D.s and professional expe- rience in areas such as sales, inter- national marketing, retailing, and technology marketing. HONORS AND AWARDS n Hsinchun Chen has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electri- cal and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE). A management information systems professor at the Eller Col- lege of Management at the Uni- versity of Arizona in Tucson, Chen specializes in developing medical, intelligence, and security informatics. n The Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri in Kansas City has received the silver award for Excellence in Advertising from the Council for Advance- ment and Support of Education. The award recognized the Bloch School for its print ad series titled "The Bloch School Knows: Innovation is Essential," which was published in BizEd between March 2005 and March 2006. GRANTS AND DONATIONS n San José State University in Califor- nia has received the largest private individual gift in its history—a $10 million donation from alumni Don- ald and Sally Lucas. The money will go to support the graduate business school, which will be renamed the Donald and Sally Lucas Graduate School of Business in the College of Business. The gift will fund endowed n The School of Business Adminis- tration at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee has received a $10 million contribution from Milwaukee busi- ness leader and philanthropist Shel- don B. Lubar, chairman of Lubar & Company Inc. It is the largest single donation in the university's history. The funds will be used to fund new professorships, student scholarships, program innovations, technology, and infrastructure. Plans are under way to name the business school the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, while the school's main facility would be renamed the Shel- don B. Lubar Business Building. n The Richard T. Farmer School of Business at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has received a $4 million gift from Thomas J. Petters, CEO and chairman of Petters Group Worldwide. The gift will create the Jennifer Petters Chair in Asian Busi- ness, named after the businessman's daughter. Petters Group World- wide—a group of companies that includes Fingerhut Direct Marketing and Polaroid—is based in Min- netonka, Minnesota, and is working to develop a Living and Learning Center in Shanghai. COLLABORATIONS n Columbia Business School in New York and the University of Hong Kong have announced a partnership that will professorships, faculty fellowships, executive education, graduate stu- dent scholarships, and the creation of a global scholars-in-residence program. The Lucases founded the Lucas Dealership Group, one of the first multiple franchise automobile companies in the U.S. allow up to 40 University of Hong Kong MBA students per year to study at Columbia for a full semes- ter. The program will begin with the 2007–2008 academic year. n Purdue University's Krannert School of Management in West Lafayette, Indiana, and its Center for International Business Educa- tion and Research (CIBER) have entered into cooperative educational and research programs with three Chinese universities as part of the universi- ty's Asian Initiative. Krannert will cooperate with Zhejiang Univer- sity in Hangzhou on a variety of programs, including education, research, and student exchanges. In particular, the schools will focus on supply-chain management and international human resources studies. The school also has signed student-exchange agreements with Tsinghua University and Beijing University, both in Beijing. n The School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Ontario recent- ly signed an agreement to institute exchange programs with Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. OTHER NEWS n Douglas T. Breeden, the dean of Duke University's Fuqua School of Busi- ness since 2001, will step down effective June 30, 2007. He plans to resume teaching and research full- time while retaining his appointment as the William W. Priest Professor of Finance at Fuqua, located in Dur- ham, North Carolina. n z BizEd MAY/JUNE 2006 17