Professors Recognized

 

Professor Emeritus Merv Daub, BCom’66, received the prestigious Padre Laverty Award from the Kingston Branch of Queen’s Alumni Association in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Kingston community and to Queen’s – as a long-time faculty member, former captain of the football team, founder of the Business Forecast Lunch, among many other achievements. The Kingston Award was renamed to commemorate the long and distinguished service of the first University Chaplain, Padre A.Marshall Laverty, and was presented at a dinner on April 23. Professor Rick Jackson,MBA’71,Commerce’64 Faculty Teaching Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, was presented with the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching by Queen’s Alma Mater Society in April. The campus-wide award is the highest honour given to professors by students. Rick is also a previous winner of the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest Queen’s award based on both alumni and student nominations. Named for Frank Knox, an Economics professor who taught at Queen’s for 40 years, the award honours excellent teachers who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the education of students. Professor Julian Barling has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for 2008. Fellow status is an honour bestowed upon SIOP members who have shown unusual and outstanding contributions or performance in I-O psychology through their research. The Canadian Academic Accounting Association named Professor Steve Salterio, PricewaterhouseCoopers/Tom O’Neil Faculty Research Fellow in Accounting, this year’s recipient of the Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought. This annual award is given by the CAAA in recognition of a significant contribution to scholarly thinking and research in Canada through a body of work that contributes to the advancement of accounting thought.