Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl receives his $7,500 TISCO Dissertation Research Award from Dean Iftekhar Hasan of the Lally School of Management & Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA. The grant is made from the TISCO Endowed Scholarship Fund for Thai students attending RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). Sivaporn set up this endowed scholarship fund in 1990.