MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS

• Best Presenter Award for being a Distinguished Speaker at the Global Business, Economics and Finance Research Conference, 2012.

• Best Presenter Award for being a Distinguished Speaker at the Global Business, Economics and Finance Research Conference, 2011.

• Outstanding Scholar Award for Sustained Record of Exceptional Scholarship in Finance and Corporate Governance, University of Delaware, 2010.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Learning, University of Delaware, 2009.

• Ranked 414 (or in the Top 2.3%) of the 17,601 authors that have published in 26 core finance journals from 1959 to 2008, a five-decade period which substantially encompasses the maturation period of the finance discipline, based on research released to the Social Sciences Research Network, 2009.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Learning, University of Delaware, 2008.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, University of Delaware, 2007.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, University of Delaware, 2003.

• Lead Contributor, University of Delaware’s rank among all institutes worldwide with regard to the weighted number of pages published by an institute’s faculty in the ‘Top 3’ journals in finance during the period 1990 to 2001, based on research published in Financial Management, 2002.

• Ranked in the list of ‘Top 1000’ faculty worldwide with regard to the weighted number of pages published by faculty in 16 core finance journals in finance during the period 1990 to 2001, based on research published in Financial Management, 2002.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, University of Delaware, 2001.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, University of Delaware, 2000.

• Distinguished Instructor Award, as voted by the members of the Executive MBA Class of 2000, University of Delaware, 2000.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, University of Delaware, 1999.

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware, 1997.

• Outstanding Paper in Financial Institutions Award, Eastern Finance Association Meeting, 1997.

• Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention Award in Appreciation of Outstanding Contributions to Teaching, University of Delaware, 1997.

• Lead Contributor, University of Delaware’s rank among all institutes in the US with regard to the total impact of articles published by an institute’s faculty in the 16 leading journals in finance during the period 1989 to 1993, based on research published in the Journal of Finance, 1995.

• Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Finance, University of Delaware, 1993.

• Outstanding Resident Student Support Award for Exemplary Performance as a Professor, University of Delaware, 1988.