Currently Accolades: People for November 4, 2024

Jessica Mole Heilman, Executive Director of The Center for Women's Leadership in the College of Urban and Public Affairs presented on Centering Equity in Leadership Training and Recruitment at the 2024 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration National Conference in Washington DC.

Vicki Reitenauer, Women, Gender and Sexualities Faculty and Jessica Mole Heilman, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Leadership, were hosted by Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University for a national NEW Leadership Partners Summit.

Ken Ruoff, History, was quoted at length about the messages put forth at the Kamikaze Memorial Museum in Chiran, Japan in an article in the Hokkaido Newspaper on Oct. 27, 2024 as part of a series marking 80 years since the end of World War II.

Yazhen (Sophie) Xiao, School of Business faculty, co-chaired the 2024 Journal of Product Innovation Management Research Forum with Cheryl Nakata (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Destan Kandemir (INSEEC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The forum was part of the four-day annual conference of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). It hosted research presentations by international NPD and innovation scholars and offered excellent networking opportunities with JPIM's Editorial Team and practitioners in the PDMA community.