Mary Cowles (Center for Professional Practice) completed the Leadership Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for those new to or interested in moving into a leadership role. Click this link to learn more about certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Joan Doremus (Auxiliary Services) completed the Financial Knowledge Certificate, one of the noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate is designed for faculty and staff who want to learn more about a variety of financial topics. Click this link to learn more about certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Victoria Nellis (Financial Affairs) completed the Customer Service Certificate offered by the Office of Human Resources. This mini certificate is offered completely online and is designed to help you excel in delivering excellent customer service skills. Click this link to learn more about certificate programs available to all faculty and staff.
Jennifer Stano, Human Resources’ Employment, Classification and Compensation Manager, presented a session on strengthening employee diversity in recruitment and retention efforts at the annual conference for the College and University Professionals Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) Eastern Region. The conference was held in Boston, MA, this May.
Sarah Magnotta, Ph.D., Marketing, received the AMA Sales SIG Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, “Two Essays on the Recommendation Behavior of Multi-line Salespeople.” The award is sponsored by the Steve Stagner Sales Excellence Institute at the University of Houston and is open to anyone having completed a doctoral degree within the past two years from an AACSB-accredited university. The primary focus of the dissertation must involve professional selling and/or sales management. Magnotta’s research examines how and why multi-line salespeople may recommend particular products to their customers. Multi-line salespeople are those who are able to choose among overlapping, competing manufacturers’ products to make a recommendation to their customers. The award will be presented to Magnotta during the American Marketing Association Summer Educators Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in August 2016. Magnotta joined TU as an assistant professor of marketing in fall 2015. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and also has an MBA from Old Dominion and a bachelor’s from James Madison University. Her expertise is marketing strategy, personal selling and sales management. Before entering academia, Sarah was the marketing director for Maryland Office Interiors and the Director of Marketing for Chasen’s Business Interiors.
