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The Love School of Business at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has established a new scholarship in honor of Peter Tourtellot, immediate past chair of the school’s board of advisors. The Peter L. Tourtellot Scholarship will be awarded beginning in April 2011 to an eligible business student.

Richard Jordan has been named Associate Director of Career Services in the Love School of Business. He joins ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ from Lee Hecht Harrison, where he was consultant with the global career management firm’s Raleigh office.

Tina Das, professor of Economics and Casey DiRienzo, associate professor of Economics and associate dean of the Love School of Business, have had their paper, "Assessing terrorist risk and FDI using relative information measures," published in Applied Economics Letters. The paper was co-authored with Anthony Mancuso of SAS Institute in Cary, NC.

Christina Benson, assistant professor of business law in the Love School of Business, has been selected as a finalist in the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Master Teacher Competition.

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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ 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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ MBA Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, June 26, at Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane. The tournament is sponsored by the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ MBA Student-Alumni Association. All proceeds will go to the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ 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.