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Earl Honeycutt, marketing professor and director of the Chandler Family Center for Professional Sales, co-authored an article, “Identifying the Attributes of an Effective Restaurant Chain Endorser,” published Cornell Hospital Quarterly (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2010). Co-authors are Vincent P. Magnini, assistant professor of Hospitality at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, and Cristel Garcia of the Universita della Svizzera italiana.

David Turner, CFO of Thomson Reuters Markets Division, will be the speaker for the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ MBA commencement, to be held Friday, May 21, at 7 pm in Whitley Auditorium.

The Business Fellows class of 2010 was recognized in a medallion ceremony held in the LaRose Digital Theatre on Friday, May 20.

The third annual ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ MBA Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, June 26, at Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane. The tournament is sponsored by the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ MBA Student-Alumni Association. All proceeds will go to the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Academy, a college-access program for academically talented high-school students in Alamance County with financial need.

Forty-two undergraduate and MBA students were inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma international business honor society Tuesday afternoon in a ceremony that welcomed honorary inductee Allen E. Gant Jr., a member of the university’s board of trustees and its immediate past chair.

John Burbridge, along with two other academics, selected the 2009 Seymour Medal recipient at the Seymour Medal Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 1. The Seymour Medal is given by the Society for American Baseball Research and honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published May 9, 2010, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business will offer four new majors starting this fall - finance, marketing, management and entrepreneurship - as well as a new degree and two new minors. The new degree is a bachelor of science in business administration.

Three ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students were named national winners in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards contest May 5.