UNCG has honored Professor Vidyaranya Gargeya with the 2006 Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.  Professor Gargeya has been a faculty member at the Bryan School since 1993 where he teaches courses in global operations strategy, supply chain management, and total quality management.  With nearly 400 full-time, tenured faculty members at UNCG, this campus-wide award is one of the University’s highest honors and it is the second major award given to a member of the Bryan School Faculty in as many years.  Last year, Dr. Prashant Palvia, also from the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, received the University’s Research Excellence Award. 

With over twenty years of experience in the classroom, Dr. Gargeya has been winning teaching awards for almost as long as he has been teaching.  He received his first teaching award while he was a graduate student at Georgia State University.  His first award at the Bryan School came in 1997 and he has since gone on to win two Teaching Excellence Awards (1997 and 2002) from the Bryan School.  Dr. Gargeya and his Acid Test (an interactive case that he uses in MBA courses as a final examination) received the Wick Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2003.

Dr. Gargeya was recently selected as an Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Award and has been named the Interim MBA Program Director for the 2006-2007 academic year. 

-June 2006