Associate professor of management Peter Will received McKendree University's 2011 Grandy Faculty Award for outstanding service.

The association presents the annual award to a full-time, tenured faculty member recommended by faculty, administrators and the senior class.

Will, a Lebanon resident, earned two bachelor's degrees, in chemistry and industrial technology and in business administration; a master's degree in general management, a master's in financial economics, and a doctorate in biochemistry.

He was a research scientist and industrial manager at a pharmaceutical company for many years before he joined the faculty in 2002. Will advises the Sigma Beta Delta business honor society, and attends numerous student athletic competitions, concerts, plays and presentations.

Rory Scher is this year's Technos Award student winner. Technos International College in Tokyo honored 2011 graduate Scher, a psychology major from Belleville, for leadership, outstanding academic achievement and promoting international understanding. She was student vice president of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society chapter and a member of the Psi Chi psychology honor society.