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2003 Penny Crane Award Winner |
Page updated: October 02, 2003 |
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A special award was presented posthumously to Penny Crane at the 1999 SIGUCCS Fall Conference to honor her long time service and contributions to SIGUCCS and ACM. Since then the Penny Crane Award was established to recognize other individuals who have made significant contributions to SIGUCCS and computing in higher education.
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The 2003 Penny Crane Award was presented to Russell S. Vaught to recognize his significant service to higher education, the computing profession, and to ACM SIGUCCS.
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Russell Vaught's career has focused
on information technology and research in higher education. He is a
leader who has served as a mentor to many of his staff throughout his
career. He is dedicated to providing high quality user services to his
constituents. Russ represents the personal dedication to the profession
for which the Penny Crane award was created.
Russ is Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology at Penn
State. Before working full time in computing, Russ was a researcher at
the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC, and the Oregon
Research Institute in Eugene, OR. For the last twenty-four years, he
has held full time computing positions at SUNY-Binghamton, Cornell, and
Penn State.
Russ served on the Board of the ACM SIGUCCS group from 1983 to 1999 and
was Chair of the organization from 1991-1995. He has encouraged his
staff to attend and actively participate in SIGUCCS for many years.
Russ has made numerous presentations on information technology related
issues. He wrote a chapter in the Educom publication, Organizing and
Supporting Administrative Computing. He has consulted with a number of
institutions on their use of technology. He has also taught courses in
statistics and management of information systems. He has over fifty
publications in areas ranging from quantitative methods and
organizational behavior to traffic safety and parasites in fish. He
received a Ph.D. in Psychology (Quantitative Methods) from Iowa State
University in 1971.
Information about this award is available at http://www.acm.org/siguccs/awards/pc_award.htm.
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