University of Richmond Installs Thomas Cossé as CSX Chair in Management and Accounting
February 16, 2004
The University of Richmond's Robins School of Business installed Thomas J. Cossé, professor of marketing and associate dean for international business programs, as CSX Chair in Management and Accounting on Feb. 2.
CSX Corporation established the chair with a gift to the university in 1983. Cossé is the fifth professor to hold the faculty position.
A member of the business school faculty since 1975, Cossé holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana Lafayette) and M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arkansas. He was an American Marketing Association doctoral consortium fellow and has been a visiting professor at the University of Bath, England, and at IFI Group ESC Rouen, France.
Cossé specializes in the application of marketing concepts to public policy issues, such as human organ donation. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, and in 1998, he was co-recipient of the Society for Marketing Advances' Stephen J. Shaw Award. He has received the Robins School's Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Scholarly Activity awards. Three of his M.B.A. student teams have won the Governor's Award for Excellence for projects they completed for Virginia companies through the Virginia Economic Development Partnership's International Marketing Program.