Habitat homes. All of them made a positive impact, but the Walker house continues to be special. in 1999, Walker took over her mother’s custodial duties and has been working at richmond ever since, quite often in the gottwald Center for the Sciences. Her co-workers and supervisors describe her as “one of the nicest people at the University.” Last year, Walker made the last payment on the Habitat home’s mortgage. “i love my house,” she says. “i’ll be here until i go to heaven.”
B OOKS Litteral and Altay edit
parts management book Dr. Lewis “Andy” Litteral, who chairs the management department in the robins School of Business, has co-edited Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control. The book’s other co-editor is Dr. nezih Altay, a former assistant professor at richmond who is now an associate professor of management at Depaul University. Their book focuses on sophisticated models and methods of forecasting demand and managing inventories of spare parts. it gives both a general overview and detailed treatments of several best practices in the field. Litteral and Altay devel-
oped the book for researchers, graduate students, and anyone who manages inventories of parts that have intermittent demand, such as replacement parts for commercial aviation, military weapons, automobiles, industrial equipment, and communication devices.
More faculty books For the Greater Good of All: Perspectives on Individualism, Society, and Leadership. Don Forsyth, the Colonel Leo K. and gaylee Thorsness Chair in Ethical Leadership, and Crystal Hoyt, associate professor of leadership studies, edited this latest volume of the Jepson Studies in Leadership series. Me kara Uroko no Nihongo Bunpo (Eye-opening Japanese grammar). Akira Suzuki, director of richmond’s Japanese language program, wrote this text with Junichiro Sakurada.
f aCultY Leopold wins award with $60,000 grant
Dr. Michael Leopold, associate professor of chemistry, has received a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2010. The award comes with a $60,000, five-year grant to support Leopold’s research into nanomaterials in the environment. The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation awards fewer than 10 such grants each year.
New academic chair honors former Westhampton dean Alumnae of Westhampton College have joined forces to create an academic chair in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. The chair will be named in honor of Dr. Stephanie BennettSmith (pictured above), the former Westhampton dean who helped create the Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL) program 30 years ago along with Dr. Kathleen Rohaly, Dr. Jane Hopkins, and Dr. William Walker. Today WILL is a nationally recognized program for women interested in exploring gender and diversity issues inside and outside the classroom. Bennett-Smith served as dean of Westhampton College from 1976 to 1984. In addition to WILL, she helped develop programs in residence life, student governance, academic advising, and alumnae relations. She enhanced the college’s overall reputation and built business and government relationships to assist graduates in job placement. In 1985, she became president and CEO of Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J., retiring as president emerita in 2001. At Centenary she established the Northwest New Jersey Women’s Center. She also served as president of the Southern Association of Colleges for Women. “Our devotion to women’s education in the 21st century stems from leaders such as Stephanie Bennett-Smith,” says Dr. Juliette Landphair, the current dean of Westhampton College. “This chair represents for Westhampton the continuing importance of women’s education.” Many alumnae and other friends of Westhampton provided broad-based support to create the chair, and the University is conducting a nationwide search to fill the position. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the ramifications of gender and sexuality and the associated social and political movements.
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