Summer 2012 - Robert Morris University

Jolly Good
Fellows
The Plank Center for
Leadership in Public
Relations at the University
of Alabama, consistently
rated one of the country's
best public relations schools,
has awarded a Plank Fellowship
to university professor of communication
Ann Jabro, Ph.D. The fellowship, one of
15 awarded to PR professors this year,
will support Jabro spending two weeks
at BMW's North American headquarters
this summer. She plans to research
BMW's corporate PR practices and
deliver a seminar.
Associate professor of media arts
Hyla Willis, M.F.A., received a
Heinz Endowment Fellowship for
her six-week residency at the
MacDowell Colony in New
Hampshire.
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Frank Flanegin, Ph.D., head of the
department of finance, was honored
by the American Society of Business
and Behavioral Sciences with its
Distinguished Service Award.
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Jacqueline Klentzin, Ph.D., and Diane Todd
Bucci, Ph.D., wrote "Part-time Faculty and the
Academic Library: A Case Study" for the
Journal of Academic
Librarianship. Klentzin is a
professor of learning
resources and information
literacy and outreach
librarian. Todd Bucci is a
professor of English.
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Val Howard, Ed.D.,
associate professor of
nursing, wrote "High-
Fidelity Nursing
Education," an
article on the
university's medical simulation programs
published in MinorityNurse. Howard is
the director of the Regional RISE Center.
Gregory Suriano, adjunct instructor in art and
music in the department of communication,
wrote an article for Pittsburgh Quarterly,
"Gershwin in Pittsburgh," revealing a long
series of associations the American composer
had with Pittsburgh, including
his friendship with city native
Oscar Levant. Suriano is the
author of Gershwin in His Time: A
Biographical Scrapbook 1919-1937,
which has a foreword by
Pittsburgh Pops conductor
Marvin Hamlisch.