Three professors have been awarded newly established faculty fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year in the College of Business' department of risk management/insurance, real estate & business law.

Professors Glenn Boggs and Barry Diskin have been named Nardozza Fellows, and Randy Dumm, an associate professor, has been named the Peoples First Insurance Fellow.

"The Nardozza Scholars Program and the Peoples First Insurance gift help to advance our risk management/insurance and real estate programs," said Dean Gatzlaff, department chair and Mark C. Bane Professor. "They enable us to recognize deserving faculty while enhancing our research and program capabilities. We are grateful for the generous support of our alumni and friends in establishing these endowed awards."

The Francis J. Nardozza Scholars Program was established by Nardozza to recognize and support scholarly research on a wide range of real estate and urban economic issues affecting public policy. Each year, Nardozza Fellows are named, and their research agenda is supported during the following year.

The Peoples First Insurance Fellowship was created to recognize and reward faculty for their work in furthering student programs in risk management/insurance. This fellowship was made possible by a generous gift from Peoples First Insurance to the Robert A. Marshall Endowment for Insurance Excellence.

Boggs
Boggs, who specializes in business law and real estate, plans to use his Nardozza fellowship to research the governmental use of, and restraints on eminent domain powers and the history of Florida real estate titles. Boggs has taught in the College of Business since 1981 and has written extensively on business law and real estate issues. He received his law degree from Florida State University.

Diskin
Diskin will examine property tax, takings and eminent domain issues during his Nardozza fellowship year. He has written more than 40 articles on real estate issues, received several grants and served as a consultant for his work in the real estate area. Diskin, who has been at FSU since 1980, holds a Ph.D. in land economics and real estate from Georgia State University.

Dumm
The Peoples First Insurance fellowship, awarded to Dumm, will help facilitate internship opportunities in the RMI area. Since joining the faculty in 1997, Dumm has built an impressive record of service and scholarship. Dumm served as a Fulbright Scholar to the Vienna University of Business and Economics, and more recently he was the Swiss Re Visiting Professor in Risk and Insurance at the Ludwig Maximilians University's Institute of Risk and Insurance. In 2006, he helped establish the Katrina "Katie" Froeschle Memorial Golf Tournament, which has enabled the Katie Froeschle Scholarship endowment to reach more than $100,000. Dumm received his doctoral degree from the University of Georgia.

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