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May 30, 2006 Volume 30, Issue 34 |
Shim wins MSU’s prestigious Powe research award
An authority on digital multimedia broadcasting is the winner of the university’s 2006 Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award.
Dr. Jung P. Shim, a professor of management and information systems, received the award during recent annual spring research awards banquet.
Named in honor of the former MSU research vice president who died in 1996, the Powe award annually recognizes faculty researchers making significant contributions to the economic welfare or cultural growth of the university, state and nation.
“His ability to define and then follow a vision in a rapidly changing field of information technology is demonstrated by his capacity to identify important new technological trends,” current research vice president Colin Scanes said of Shim.
“To this end, his work in the area of digital multimedia broadcast stands out as pioneering and he is regarded as a leading authority on the subject,” Scanes added in presenting the award.
Digital multimedia broadcasting is a digital transmission system for sending data, radio and television to mobile devices such as mobile phones. It can operate via satellite or through terrestrial transmission.
Shim, who has co-authored four textbooks and more than 50 research articles, focuses much of his research on electronic business and mobile commerce technology. He has lectured frequently in the United States and his native South Korea, as well as the United Kingdom, France, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Greece, Taiwan, and Japan.
Shim is a past winner of the university’s Outstanding Faculty Award, Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Service Award, Award for Excellence in Research, and the John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award. He holds a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Other faculty and staff members were presented research awards during the banquet. They include:
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station: Faculty Research Award, William Kingery, professor, plant and soil sciences; and the Research Support Staff Award, Eugene Columbus, senior research associate, agriculture and biological engineering.
College of Forest Resources: Faculty Research Award, Stephen Grado, professor, forestry; and Research Support Staff Award, Curt Collins, research associate I, forestry.
College of Veterinary Medicine: Faculty Research Award, Shane Burgess, associate professor, basic science; and Research Support Staff Award, Michael Dewberry, research program manager, basic science.
College of Architecture, Art and Design: Faculty Research Award, Rebecca Davis-Kelly, assistant professor; and Research Support Staff Award, Sarah Pittman, project coordinator.
College of Arts and Sciences: Faculty Research Award, Mark Novotny, professor and department head, physics and astronomy; and Research Support Staff Award, Debbie Beard, manager and instructor, chemistry.
College of Business and Industry: Faculty Research Award, Kartono Liano, professor, finance and economics.
College of Education: Faculty Research Award, Jason Bahr, assistant professor, music education; and Research Support Staff Award, Karen Bateman, accounting assistant III, instructional systems, leadership and workforce development.
Bagley College of Engineering: Faculty Research Award, Sergio Felicelli, associate professor, mechanical engineering; and Research Support Staff Award, David Oglesby, research associate II, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
Office of Research: Research Support Staff Award, Robyn Remotigue, program administrator, sponsored programs administration.