Special Risk Management and Insurance Issue • March 2007

Features
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Fox Undergraduate RMI Program in Top 5
Cummins to Lead Revitalization of The Fox School’s Advanta Center for Research in Financial Institutions
Risk & Insurance Fraternity Receives Bowers Award for 7th Year
New Faculty
Distinguished Wharton Professor J. David Cummins Joins the Fox School
Appointments
Mary Weiss • President of the American Risk and Insurance Association
Recruiting
Industry Leaders Recruit Fox Risk Management and Insurance Students for Internships
Awards
RMI Associate Professor R.B. Drennan to receive Benjamin Franklin Award from the Philadelphia CPCU Chapter
Fox Risk Management and Insurance Students Win the Most Spencer Scholarships — Again
Events
April 10 • Aon CEO to speak at 19th Annual Risk Insurance & Actuarial Science Awards for Excellence Luncheon
Gamma Iota Sigma Spring 07 Events
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February 2007
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Fox Undergraduate RMI Program in Top 5
In its 2007 rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked the undergraduate Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) program of Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management the fifth-best program in the nation.

“These rankings are a testimony to The Fox School’s reputation, the impressive statistics of its incoming freshman class, the growth of our honors program and our excellent placement services,” said M. Moshe Porat, Fox School dean.
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Cummins to Lead Revitalization of The Fox School’s Advanta Center for Research in Financial Institutions
This fall, professor of risk management and insurance, and finance J. David Cummins will be joining the Advanta Center for Research in Financial Institutions at The Fox School of Business as director, and reenergizing the center with new initiatives.

The Advanta Center conducts research in financial institutions and promotes the study of financial services within The Fox School. Carrying out its research mission, the center also publishes the journal Risk Management and Insurance Review and the Journal of Risk Finance, and has helped a number of Ph.D. students from the risk, insurance and healthcare management, and finance departments by granting them doctoral assistantships.
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Risk & Insurance Fraternity Receives Bowers Award for 7th Year
The Sigma Chapter has done it again and brought home the prestigious Edison L. Bowers Award for seven years in a row — 11 out of the past 13 years! The Bowers Award was given at the Gamma Iota Sigma Annual International Management Conference held in October 2006 in Indianapolis.

The Bowers Award was created to recognize one Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma that demonstrates an exceptional, well-rounded and organized program each academic school year.
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