"Tek" Narongsak Thongpapanl receives his US $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).