Four Women Academics Are Honored

Sarah Farrell, associate professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia, received the inaugural Elsevier Exceptional Nursing Educator Award from Amsterdam-based Elsevier, a scientific publishing giant.

Farrell is a graduate of the University of Virginia. She has been on the faculty at the university since 1991.

Elva Kaye Lance, director of bands at Mississippi State University, received the Edythe McArthur Outstanding Director Award from the Mississippi Bandmasters Association. She is the first woman director of bands at the university.

Lance holds degrees from Mississippi State University and Southern Oregon University.

Dorothy Leidner was named an Association for Information Systems Fellow at the International Conference on Information Systems in Shanghai, China. Dr. Leidner is director of the Center for Information Systems Research in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. The honor is given to individuals for research, teaching, and service on regional, national, and global levels.

Dr. Leidner is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She also holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Texas.

Valerie Krugh, an associate professor at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, has been selected to receive the Leavey Award from the Freedoms Foundation. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Philadelphia in March.

Professor Krugh is being honored for designing a curriculum on entrepreneurship, mathematics, language arts, and philanthropy.