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Headlines vironmentManagement Center a $1.5 million grant to support the joint masters degree program be- tween the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry&Envi- ronmental Studies. Students enrolled in the three-year program at the New Haven, Connecticut, school earn both anMBA and aMasters in Envi- ronmentalManagement. sThe Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has received a $1 million contribution from the BB&T Charitable Founda- tion to create a program for the study of the moral foundations of capital- ism. The donation was spearheaded by BB&T Chairman and CEO John A. Allison IV. It will be used to support the develop- ment of a course on ethics and morals in capitalism for advanced business undergraduates andMBA students. Addi- tionally, the gift will fund faculty research on the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism, create a speakers series focusing on ethical and core values in business, support the Center for Applied Ethics at UNC Charlotte, and establish an Ayn Rand reading room on campus. COLLABORATIONS sAudencia Nantes School of Management in France has doubled its number of ac- ademic partners in Asia with the creation of nine new agreements with foreign schools and universi- ties. Seven of the new partners are Asian, including the Faculty of Business at the City University of Hong Kong, Korea University Business School in Seoul, the Royal 16 BizEd NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005 OTHER NEWS sEdward M. Mazze, dean of the Col- lege of Business Administration at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, has announced that he will retire as dean at the end of the 2005–2006 academic year. At that time, he will have the title Distin- guished University Professor of Busi- ness Administration and will teach in University of Law and Economic Sciences in Cambodia, the Univer- sity of International Business & Economics in Beijing, the Wel- ingkar Institute in Mumbai, the National Organization for the Study of Policy and Administration in Laos, and the Franco-Vietnamese Management Centre in Hanoi. The school has also signed partnerships with the European Business School in Germany and Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. sThe University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K. and Grenoble Ecole de Man- agement in France have launched a joint Doctorate of Business Adminis- tration program. The DBA program, which accepted its first participants this fall, will specialize in the manage- ment of technology, innovation, and change. Students will be assigned su- pervisors from both schools and will attend seminars at both institutions. s Henry Lowenstein, dean of the School of Business and Public Ad- ministration at California State University, Bakersfield, recently met with repre- sentatives from four universities in Santiago Querétaro to establish aca- demic ties and a formal sister city relationship with the city inMexico. He also made a presentation on be- half of AACSB International. the areas of corporate governance, in- ternational business and marketing. sAudencia Nantes School of Management in France has been accredited by the Association ofMBAs (AMBA). The school becomes the 23rd institution worldwide to receive triple accredita- tion: AMBA, Equis, and AACSB International. sThe alumni association of IESE in Spain has organized the firstMBA Alumni Olympics, which was held in September. It gave recent business school graduates a chance to network with each other, compete against each other, display school spirit—and raise money for good causes. Each competi- tor donated money for The Prince's Trust, a U.K. charity aimed at helping young adults realize their potential. The competition included football, tennis, croquet, and track-and-field events. sThe University of Chicago Graduate School of Business has announced two new fellowship programs aimed at distinct groups. The Chicago Fel- lowships forWomen program, which gives each recipient $50,000 in schol- arship money over two years of study, is designed to attract more women to the business school. It also pairs each woman with a sponsoring company that provides a mentor. The Dennis W. and Jane B. Carlton Israeli Fel- lows program is aimed at Israeli appli- cants who plan to return to Israel after they receive theirMBA degrees. Those recipients will receive more than $100,000 in tuition and living expenses, as well as mentoring by