Engel Named To Chair


Allison Engel, the first to hold the Dean Helen LeBaron 
Hilton Endowed Chair, has a strong media background, 
including reporter, author, magazine editor and freelance 
writer. She has won several journalism awards, including a 
Knight Journalism Fellowship from Stanford University in 
California. 

She also was selected as a national spokesperson for AT&T, 
touring nearly 100 U.S. cities, and co-authored Food Finds: 
America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them, 
for HarperCollins, with her twin sister, Margaret Engel.

"My primary goal is to bring the good works of the college to 
a broader public," she said. "There is an overwhelming amount 
of quality research being done."

"Allison Engel is nationally recognized for her work as a 
journalist," Dean Beverly Crabtree said. "We are thrilled to 
have a person of her caliber join our faculty as the first 
Hilton Chair."

One of Engel's first projects will be organizing a conference 
on faculty research for national journalists. The conference 
is scheduled for spring 1996.

"The conference will enable College of Family and Consumer 
Sciences faculty to showcase their research," she said. "It's 
a great opportunity for faculty to respond to issues of 
public interest while building solid relationships with 
journalists."

Engel graduated with honors from Iowa State in 1973. She 
received the B.A. in home economics journalism. Her father, 
Jack Engel, was a professor in ISU's department of journalism 
and mass communications.

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