UA Professor Wins Goldsmith Award for Communication Contributions

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Kim Sydow Campbell, professor of management communication in the marketing and management department at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, has been named winner of the 2009 Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for outstanding contributions to engineering communication.

The Alfred N. Goldsmith Award is given by the IEEE in recognition of service within the IEEE Professional Communication Society to improve the quality of engineering communication.

IEEE was originally an acronym for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is the leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The late Dr. Goldsmith was largely responsible for establishing the IRE Professional Group on Engineering Writing and Speech.

Campbell also was awarded the Emily K. Schlesinger Award for Distinguished Service from IEEE in 2007, the IEEE’s other top award.

The award committee noted Campbell’s work on the IEEE research journal, Transactions on Professional Communication. She served as editor-in-chief of the publication from 1998 through 2008.

Campbell is a graduate of Louisiana State University, where she received her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees. She is the Derrell Thomas Faculty Fellow and coordinator of undergraduate writing and director of assessment at the UA business school.

Dr. Rob Morgan, head of the UA department of management and marketing, said, “Scholarly publishing is one of the most important aspects of advancing technology, and Dr. Campbell’s work in this area has been incredible. She has been at the helm of Transactions on Professional Communication through one of its most tumultuous decades, and this recognition is certainly well deserved.”

The Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration was established in 1919, and, in 1929, it became the 38th school to earn admission into the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. The excellence of the UA business school has been acknowledged on a national level. The undergraduate program is ranked 29th among public universities by U.S. News, and the Culverhouse School of Accountancy is ranked 15th among public universities by U.S. News. The graduate accounting program is ranked 19th, and the undergraduate program 15th, by Public Accounting Report. The entrepreneurial program is ranked 20th nationally.