Mooney wins Women's International Science Collaboration award
HOBOKEN, N.J. - A Stevens Institute of Technology Assistant
Professor, Dr. Ann Mooney, has been granted a Women's
International Science Collaboration (WISC) Program award
to begin a research collaboration with an overseas scientist.
This award is given by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science with the support of the National
Science Foundation (NSF). Mooney is resident in the Wesley
J. Howe School Technology Management at Stevens.
The WISC Award is given to increase the participation of women in international scientific research. WISC bestows on a competitive basis small travel grants to US scientists to plan and design new collaborations with colleagues in Central/Eastern and Western Europe, the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Near East, Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Pacific, and Asia. Scientists who have received their doctoral degrees within the past six years receive special consideration, as do scientists applying to work with colleagues in less frequently represented countries and regions. Mooney will travel to Germany to collaborate with Dr. Jens Grundei at the Technology University of Berlin. Together, they will examine the similarities and differences in German and American corporate governance systems in an effort to develop recommendations for improving practices in both countries.
"Many congratulations to Ann Mooney for winning a Women's International Science Collaboration award," said Dr. Ted Stohr, the Howe School's Associate Dean for Academics and Research. "This is a great contribution to the Howe School's global outreach initiative."
Mooney conducts research on strategic decision making. Among other things, she has explored conflict management in top management teams, the importance of effective process in boards of directors, and the pressures and constraints on CEOs and its effect on CEOs' outside board memberships. She serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Management and the Academy of Management Journal. Mooney has also served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies as an independent consultant and formerly as an employee of Coopers & Lybrand (predecessor of PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and Arthur Andersen. She received her M.B.A. (1996) and doctorate (2000) from the University of Georgia.
Each WISC grant, up to $5,000, provides travel and living support for a US scientist to visit a partner country. US scientists can spend up to four weeks in the partner country to plan and design a research collaboration.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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