Contact: Phil Hearn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State authority on digital multimedia broadcasting is the winner of the university's 2006 Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award.
Jung P. Shim, a professor of management and information systems, received the award during the university's recent annual spring research awards banquet.
Named in honor of the former MSU research vice president who died in 1996, the Powe award annually recognizes faculty researchers making significant contributions to the economic welfare or cultural growth of the university, state and nation.
"His ability to define and then follow a vision in a rapidly changing field of information technology is demonstrated by his capacity to identify important new technological trends," current research vice president Colin Scanes said of Shim.
"To this end, his work in the area of digital multimedia broadcast stands out as pioneering and he is regarded as a leading authority on the subject," Scanes added in presenting the award.
Digital multimedia broadcasting is a digital transmission system for sending data, radio and television to mobile devices such as mobile phones. It can operate via satellite or through terrestrial transmission.
Shim, who has co-authored four textbooks and more than 50 research articles, focuses much of his research on electronic business and mobile commerce technology. He has lectured frequently in the United States and his native South Korea, as well as the United Kingdom, France, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Greece, Taiwan, and Japan.
Shim is a past winner of the university's Outstanding Faculty Award, Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Service Award, Award for Excellence in Research, and the John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award. He holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Scanes and Vance Watson, vice president for agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine, presided over the presentation of the Powe and 27 other research awards to faculty, staff and students during the Thursday evening [May 4] banquet in the Bryce Griffis Boardroom of the new Rafael Palmeiro Center.
Other honorees included (by college or unit):
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES AND MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY EXPERIMENT STATION
Faculty Research Award, William Kingery, professor, plant and soil sciences; Research Support Staff Award, Eugene Columbus, senior research associate, agriculture and biological engineering; Graduate Student Research Award, Ashley Pollard of Greenville, food science, nutrition and health promotion; and Undergraduate Student Research Award, Marcus McGee of Jackson, animal and dairy sciences.
COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES
Faculty Research Award, Stephen Grado, professor, forestry; and Research Support Staff Award, Curt Collins, research associate I, forestry.
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
Faculty Research Award, Shane Burgess, associate professor, basic science; Research Support Staff Award, Michael Dewberry, research program manager, basic science; and Graduate Student Research Award, Michael Rybolt.
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND DESIGN
Faculty Research Award, Rebecca Davis-Kelly, assistant professor; Research Support Staff Award, Sarah Pittman, project coordinator; Graduate Student Research Award, Lalatendu Satpathy of Starkville; and Undergraduate Student Research Award, Wesley Stuckey of Mount Olive.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Faculty Research Award, Mark Novotny, professor and department head, physics and astronomy; Research Support Staff Award, Debbie Beard, manager and instructor, chemistry; Graduate Student Award, Sidika Polat-Cakir of Starkville, chemistry; and Undergraduate Student Research Award, Amber Russell of Drew, mathematics and statistics.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
Faculty Research Award, Kartono Liano, professor, finance and economics; Graduate Student Research Award, Zachary Williams, marketing, quantitative analysis and business law; and Undergraduate Student Research Award, Morgan Stotelmyer of North Little Rock, Ark., marketing, quantitative analysis and business law.
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Faculty Research Award, Jason Bahr, assistant professor, music education; Research Support Staff Award, Karen Bateman, accounting assistant III, instructional systems, leadership and workforce development; and Graduate Student Research Award, Tinukwa Okojie-Boulder of Starkville, instructional systems, leadership and workforce development.
BAGLEY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Faculty Research Award, Sergio Felicelli, associate professor, mechanical engineering; Research Support Staff Award, David Oglesby, research associate II, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems; and Graduate Student Research Award, Tonya Stone of Starkville, mechanical engineering, CAVS.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH
Research Support Staff Award, Robyn Remotigue, program administrator, sponsored programs administration.
For more information, contact Marlene Langford at (662) 325-3570 or mlangford@research.msstate.edu.