Vol. 1, No. 2February-March 2001
Instruction @ Temple:
MICROSOFT AWARDS $1 MILLION IN SOFTWARE TO E-COMMERCE PROGRAM:
Microsoft has given nearly $1 million in software (estimated retail value) and technical assistance to support the e-commerce and management information systems (MIS) programs in Temple's Fox School of Business and Management.
Janie Schwark, academic marketing manager for Microsoft, says she views Temple's e-business and MIS programs as models for e-commerce and IT integration and one that offers a great opportunity to showcase new technologies. "Temple has a combination of both the business and the IT focus, which, to me, is one of the keys to a successful e-commerce program."
Dr. Munir Mandviwalla, chairman of the Fox School's Department of Management Information Systems and director of IT and Special Programs at the Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute, says the Microsoft software is being used in the Fox School's computer labs, and will be used in a new e-business server lab that will go into operation this spring. Students need to learn how to set up and program servers, and create Web sites, Mandviwalla says, and at each station in the new lab the students will have a traditional desktop computer, but next to it they'll have a server over which they'll have total control. [www.temple.edu/news_media/pm374.html]
Diversity @ Temple:
AMP PROGRAM PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR MINORITIES STUDYING SCIENCE: To encourage and assist minority students pursuing careers in science and technology--disciplines in which they have traditionally been underrepresented--Temple provides academic and social support through the Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP) program.
Funded through the National Science Foundation and with support from the University, AMP aims to foster and enhance the academic, professional, and personal growth of African-American, Hispanic, American Indian and South Asian Pacific Island students majoring in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) through a variety of programs. Nearly 70 percent of Temple's 818 AMP-eligible students participate in the program.
Faculty Spotlight:
Dr Yury Grabovsky, assistant professor of mathematics, has been named one of only two winners of the Sixth Monroe H. Martin Prize for an outstanding paper in applied mathematics by a young researcher. The prize is awarded by the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Grabovsky's winning paper, Exact Relations for Effective Tensors of Polynomials. I.
Necessary Conditions, appeared in the journal Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, volume 143 (1998). The award carries a monetary prize and Dr. Grabovsky was invited to deliver the Monroe H. Martin Lecture at the University of Maryland in early March. Previous winners of the prestigious award include Neil Berger (1975), Marshall Slemrod (1980), Jonathan Goodman (1985), Marek Rychlik (1990), A. M. Stuart (1995), and Z. Xia (1995). [www.ipst.umd.edu/Monroe-prize.htm]
The work of Temple physics professor Dr. Rongja Tao on nanoscale superconductors was cited among the list of significant and newsworthy discoveries during the year 2000 by Physics News. The list is compiled annually by the American Physical Society. Dr. Tao discovered that the application of DC electric fields to powdered superconductors results in the formation on nanoscale superconducting balls. www.aps.org/apsnews/0201/ phynew00.pdf
For more information, contact Preston Moretz, Science/Technology Writer Temple University | Office of News & Media Relations 301 USB (083-41), 1601 N Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 tel:215.204.7476 fax:215.204.4403 e-mail:[email protected] *****************************************************************Cheryl AfonsoTemple UniversityOffice of News andMedia Relations215.204.7476[email protected]
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