Awards

1. Outstanding Marketing Professor of the Year Award, 2010-2011 Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University.


2. Pravasi Achievers Gold Medal from the NRI Welfare Society of India at a ceremony organized in House of Lords, London on September 10, 2010.


3. Outstanding Research Award for the paper titled, “An Exploration of Student Satisfaction with Internship Experiences in Marketing,” 2010 IBFR Conference, Kona, Hawaii (coauthored with David Burns & Jamie Schiferl).


4. Ranked 18th among the most published scholars in the top three U.S. advertising research journals according to the article titled, “A Ten-Year Retrospective of Advertising Research Productivity, 1997-2006” by Ford and Merchant in the Journal of Advertising vol. 37, no. 3 (Fall 2008) pp. 69-9.


5. Outstanding Marketing Professor of the Year Award, 2008-2009, Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University.


6. Outstanding Marketing Professor of the Year Award, 2007-2008, Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University.


7. Outstanding Research Award, 2006-2007, Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University.


8. Outstanding Marketing Professor of the Year Award, 2006-2007, Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University.


9. Faculty Innovations in Teaching Award (2000), College of Business Administration, The University of Northern Iowa.


10. Honorable Mention in Excellence in Teaching Award (1987), The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.


11. 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000: Received appreciation letters, each year, from the Provost for being one of the University of Northern Iowa’s faculty members acknowledged by the students for having been a positive influence on their development.