Doctoral Program Awards

The Paul Merage School of Business has ranked in the Top 50 by Business Week and The Wall Street Journal. The Paul Merage School of Business' focus on Information Technology for Management (ITM) is ranked 1st by Financial Times and among the top 25 Techno-MBA programs by Computerworld magazine (2002). The part-time MBA program (FEMBA) is ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report. UCI's research programs have a positive impact on both graduate and undergraduate education. Research is at the core of graduate education leading to doctoral-degrees, and at the undergraduate level, students have access to faculty researchers at the forefront of their fields and opportunities to participate directly in faculty research projects.

Faculty Accomplishments

The quality of the faculty can be determined by the honors they receive for their research and professional contributions to their respective fields. Over the past few years, the Paul Merage School of Business faculty have distinguished themselves in various ways. Here are some examples:

Best Research Articles:

  • Imran Currim: Journal of Marketing Research
  • Marta Elvira: Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award, Academy of Management
  • Paul Feldstein: International Society for Health Care Management
  • Christina Gibson: Ascendant Scholar Award
  • John Graham: Journal of International Business Studies
  • Phillippe Jorion: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • L. Robin Keller: Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Jone Pearce: Academy of Management Science
  • Lyman Porter: Academy of Management Journal
  • Alladi Venkatesh: Journal of Consumer Research
  • James Wallace: American Accounting Association

Recent Alumni Awards

Nigel Melville

  • Students in Free Enterprise Sam Walton Fellow
  • Research Expense Grant

Chuan-Fond (Eric) Shih

  • University of California Regents Dissertation Competition Fellowship, 1999
  • American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 1998
  • University of California Regents Fellowship, 1994 - 1998

Kuntara Pukthuanthong

  • San Diego State University Research Grant 2004
  • A College of Business Administration Faculty Development Award 2004

Paul Tallon

  • Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, 1999.
  • ICIS Doctoral Consortium, 1997.
  • Ray Watson Fellowship, University of California, 1997.
  • Fulbright Fellowship (declined), 1994.
  • KPMG Fellowship in Management Science, 1990.

Christopher Zatzick

  • 2003 Teaching Honor Roll, Faculty of Business, Simon Fraser University.
  • 2002 Teaching Honor Roll, Faculty of Business, Simon Fraser University.
  • 2002 Small SSHRC Grant. Co-recipient with Professors Rick Iverson and Dave Hannah. $10,000.
  • 2001 Presidents Research Grant, Simon Fraser University. $7,500.
  • 2001 Regents' Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, Winter Quarter.
  • 1998 Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award in the Gender and Diversity in Organizations division, the Academy of Management Meetings, San Diego.
  • 1997 Fellowship, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.

Student Awards:

Dipayan Biswas
Awards and Honors:

  • Winner, Association for Consumer Research - Sheth Foundation (ACR-Sheth) Dissertation Proposal Award, October 2002.
  • Runner-up, Academy of Marketing Science - Mary Kay Dissertation Award, May 2003.
  • Winner, Society for Marketing Advances Dissertation Proposal Award, November 2003.
  • Scholarship and Grant from American Marketing Association (Marketing and Society Special Interest Group) to participate in workshop in "Risk Research," March 2004.

Jason Dedrick
Awards:

  • International Conference on Information Systems, Best Conference Theme Paper, 2003
  • Hawaiian International Conference on System Science, Best Track Paper, 2001
  • Allison Award for outstanding academic performance, Graduate School of International Relations/Pacific Studies, 1990

Individual grants and fellowships:

  • Tinker Foundation research grant, 1989
  • Department of Education Title VI Latin American Studies Fellowship, 1988-1989
  • California Regents and IR/PS Fellowships, 1987-1988

Merlyn Griffiths
Fellowship:

  • Faculty Student Mentor Fellowship, University of California Irvine (2002-2003)

Award:

  • The 2005 Academy of Marketing Science, Jane K. Fenyo Best Paper Award for Student Research: "Consumer Authorization: Acquiescing to Informed Consent in High-Risk Situations."

Tom Moliterno
Honors and Awards:

  • "Rent Appropriation and Behavioral Antecedents of Strategic Resource divestment" (with M. Wiersema) received a Distinguished Paper Award of the Business Policy & Planning Division of the Academy of Management 2005. This represents the top 5 papers from over 600 submissions.
  • 2004-2005 Chancellor’s Club Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
  • Finalist, 2004 INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition
  • 2004 Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS PhD Fellowship (Strategic Management Society)
  • 2004 Ray Watson Fellowship (Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine)
  • BPS Doctoral Consortium Participant (Academy of Management Meeting, 2004)
  • OMT Doctoral Consortium Participant (Academy of Management Meeting, 2003)
  • TIMS/OCIS Doctoral Consortium Participant (Academy of Management Meeting, 2002)
  • 2000-2001 Regents Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
  • 2000 National Scholar Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)

Sayantani Mukherjee
Honors and Awards:

  • 'American Marketing Association Doctoral consortium fellow June 2004'

Dante Pirouz

  • Faculty Student Mentor Fellowship, University of California Irvine (2005-2006)
  • MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Visiting Fellowship Program in Functional MRI, 2005
  • Academy of Marketing Science/Marketing Doctoral Student Association Conference Attendance Grant, 2005

Raul Ramirez
Fellowship:

  • Fellow, Faculty Student Mentor Fellowship, University of California Irvine (2001-2002)

Rishika Rishika
Award:

  • 2005 Research award from Newkirk Center for Science and Society, UC Irvine

Liangyan Wang
Fellowships and Awards:

  • 2003-2004 Regent Fellowship, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
  • 2003 Demographic and Social Analysis Fellowship, University of California, Irvine
  • 2002 Demographic and Social Analysis Fellowship, University of California, Irvine
  • 1997 Japanese Government Scholarship for Chinese, Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan
  • 1994 Excellent Graduate Award, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing China.

Sean Xu
Awards:

  • ICIS Best Paper Award (conference theme), the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, Washington, 2003 (out of 600 papers).
  • Winner of the eBRC Doctoral Award Competition sponsored by SAP America and the eBusiness Research Center (eBRC) at Penn State University ($7,500 research grant), 2003.
  • ICIS Best Paper Award (conference theme), the 23rd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain, 2002 (out of 526 papers).

Guangzhi (Terry) Zhao

  • Dissertation Research Award/Grant from Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program of the State of California, 2003, $60,000 (for two years).
  • UCI Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center 2003 (co-investigator with Connie Pechmann), $25,000.