Penn State Honors Novack With Teaching Excellence Award
In honor of his record of distinction in undergraduate education, Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence has presented Robert Novack, associate professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business, with a 2009 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (March 23, 2009) – In honor of his record of distinction in undergraduate education, Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence has presented Robert Novack, associate professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business, with a 2009 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The Atherton Award, named for the seventh president of the University (1882-1907), is presented each year to four full-time, tenure-line faculty members who have devoted substantial effort to, and developed a record of, excellence in undergraduate teaching. Award nominees must have undergraduate teaching as primary responsibility and have at least three years of undergraduate teaching experience at the University.
The last recipient of the Atherton Award at Smeal was Mark Dirsmith, Deloitte Professor of Accounting, in 2004.
Novack has served on the Smeal faculty since 1986 and currently teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in supply chain management. His current research interests include the quantification of logistics value and supply chain performance measurement. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Business Logistics and the Transportation Journal, among others.
Prior to joining academia, Novack worked in operations and planning for the Yellow Freight Corp. in Overland Park, Kan., and the Drackett Co. in Cincinnati.
The co-author of two logistics textbooks, Novack holds a bachelor's degree and an M.B.A. from Smeal and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.
