Tag: Madhu Rao

Food for Thoughtful, Musical

Stetson’s chapter of Phi Mu Alpha (PMA), a national music fraternity, reached a high note that echoed across the community by developing, designing and marketing the Chili for Charity cook-off. The event raised nearly $2,200, a portion of which went to Sinfonia Educational Foundation, whose mission is to, “advance music in America by supporting scholarship, […]

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Business students, Pres Libby

Your Education is Our Business

“Your education is our business,” said Stetson University President, Wendy B. Libby, Ph.D., in a presentation to the Transitions I: Self Ownership and Direction (BADM100) class. When Madhu Rao, Ph.D., associate dean of the School of Business Administration, extended an invitation to her, Libby enthusiastically accepted the offer to teach students the parallels between running […]

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Stetson adds Dynamic Tenure-Track and Visiting Faculty

With an historic record-setting undergraduate enrollment at more than 1,000 first-time college students, and almost 100 transfer students, Stetson University begins the 2015-16 academic year welcoming a total of 21 tenure-track and visiting full-time professors, in all four colleges and schools, the duPont-Ball Library and the University Writing Center. College of Arts and Sciences: “We […]

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Betty Thorne, Stetson University

Thorne New Chair of Business Administration

Betty Thorne, Ph.D., professor of statistics, has been appointed the Christian R. Lindback Chair of Business Administration for the 2015-2016 academic year. This chair, the first established at Stetson,  is awarded to a faculty member with national recognition for scholarly contributions and a record of excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching. Thorne co-authored a statistics textbook that has been translated into several […]

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Undergrad business associate dean named

Dr. Madhu Rao, former senior associate dean at The Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University in Oregon, has been appointed associate dean of Undergraduate Business Programs in Stetson’s School of Business Administration, as of June 15. In his new role, Rao will help lead Stetson’s initiatives for interdisciplinary programs throughout the university and help […]

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