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Lucien Bass • Lucien Bass is the 2006 recipient of the Henry
St. George Tucker Award, given by the students of the University’s
Honor Committee to the faculty member who exemplifies the principles
of the Honor System. Outgoing Honor Committee member Matt Miller
(McIntire ’06) says of Bass, “His rigorous devotion to honor
ensures that the faculty and students both understand and challenge
the Honor System, which secures the system’s continued health and
vigor.”
Whit Broome • The Virginia Society of Certified Public
Accountants (VSCPA) Board of Directors honored Whit Broome in April
2006, issuing a resolution that expressed gratitude for his
dedication to the protection of the public interest and his positive
influence on thousands of students and CPAs now in the accounting
profession. The resolution noted Broome’s 42 years of teaching, his
more than 28 years of membership in the society, his distinguished
service as the Educator member of the Virginia Board of Accountancy,
his six years of service as the Executive Director and Trustee of
the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, and his service as
chair of the CPA Examination Review Board and member of the national
CPA Board of Examiners, among other accomplishments. The resolution
quoted administrators and students describing Broome as “a master
teacher,” “knowledgeable, enthusiastic, approachable, friendly,
humorous, and caring.”
Rob Cross • Rob Cross is this year’s recipient of the
University’s Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award. The award is
given to a full-time tenure-track University faculty member for
excellence in the classroom and carries a $2,500 award, one semester
of research leave with pay, and a $1,500 research award.
Mary Jo Hatch • The second edition of Mary Jo Hatch’s
co-authored textbook Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and
Postmodern Perspectives, 2nd edition, has been published. Three
thousand copies were sold by April 2006, even though the book was
released in February, after the start of the spring semester.
Bill Kehoe • In honor of Bill Kehoe’s many
years of distinguished service in the honor society community, the
Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society’s Board of Directors recently
resolved to rename the Sigma Beta Delta graduate fellowship the
William J. Kehoe Fellowship. In addition to serving as an adviser to
the McIntire Beta Gamma Sigma chapter, Kehoe served Beta Gamma Sigma
at the national level, both as a member of its Board of Governors
and as its national secretary/treasurer. He played a pivotal role in
establishing the Sigma Beta Delta honor society during his service
on the Beta Gamma Sigma Board of Governors. Sigma Beta Delta was
founded by the Beta Gamma Sigma Board of Governors for students
attending institutions that hold accreditation from one of the six
regional accrediting bodies but not specialized accreditation in
business. The honor society encourages and recognizes scholarship
and achievement among students of business, management, and
administration and encourages and promotes personal and professional
excellence and honorable service to society. Kehoe also had his
recommended reading list published in the April 25, 2006, issue
of BusinessWeek in an article titled “Undergraduate Reading
List: William J. Kehoe’s Book Recommendations.”
David W. LaRue • David LaRue authored a 106-page article
titled “LIFO Recapture on C-to-S Conversions: Filling the Gaps and
Ameliorating the Deficiencies of Section 1363(d)” in the American
Bar Association’s Tax Lawyer (59 Tax Lawyer 1-106
[fall 2005]). LaRue is tentatively scheduled to present the tax
reform proposals developed and discussed in that article before the
Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives
later this year. In addition, LaRue’s testimony and analyses were
cited by the U.S. District Court of Texas in support of its decision
in TransCapital Leasing Associates 1990-II, L.P., et al. v. United
States. This case involved civil issues arising from an abusive tax
shelter commonly referred to as a “lease strip” shelter.
Bryan Lewis • Bryan Lewis recently attained Certified
Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
This certification provides information security professionals with
not only an objective measure of competence but also a globally
recognized standard of achievement. This rigorous assessment has a
75 percent failure rate, which is indicative of the difficulty and
complexity of the assessment. Currently, only three individuals in
the Charlottesville area have earned CISSP certification.
Jack Lindgren • Jack Lindgren was the faculty adviser
of the U.Va. team that won the American Advertising Federation 2006
National Student Advertising Competition in June. He also was
profiled in the March 30, 2006, Cavalier Daily in an
article titled “Golf Pro.”
David Mick • David Mick was invited in late April 2006 to
Georgetown University to present some of his latest research on the
wear-in and wear-out of rhetorical techniques (e.g., rhymes, puns)
in advertising. The title of his presentation was “Wear and Why:
Effects of Verbal Rhetorical Figures under Repeated Incidental
Exposures.”
Mike Morris • Mike Morris has been
named Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.
Ryan Nelson • Ryan Nelson participated in an Internet radio
talk show program called “CIO Talk Radio” April 12, 2006. The
invitation emanated from his March 6, 2006, ComputerWorld
article titled “Evaluating Project Success, Failure, and Everything
in between.”
Jeannine Parisi • Jeannine Parisi joined the McIntire School
of Commerce as the Wachovia Career Adviser, in the Commerce Career
Services office. Parisi is dedicated to one-on-one advising for the
Commerce student body, with a particular focus on providing advisory
services to women, minority, and international students.
Bill Shenkir • An article by Bill Shenkir and Paul Walker,
“Enterprise Risk Management and the Strategy-Risk-Focused
Organization,” appears in the May/June 2006 issue of Cost
Management. Shenkir and Walker also received a grant from the
Bureau of National Affairs for research on enterprise risk
management. They previously received grants for ERM research from
the Financial Executives Research Foundation and The Institute of
Internal Auditors Research Foundation. In addition, the two have
been appointed research fellows for the North Carolina State
University’s Risk Management Initiative in the College of
Management.
Vicki Simons • Vicki Simons joined the McIntire School during
the spring semester as Assistant Director of Alumni Development. She
has a lead role in implementing and managing the McIntire Alumni
Trustee Program.
Bob Webb • During February and March 2006, Bob Webb spent
three weeks as a Visiting Professor in the School of Business at The
University of Sydney, where he worked with Australian colleagues on
research projects. While in Australia, Webb presented a paper at
Griffith University (Gold Coast campus). In addition, so far this
year, Webb has been quoted in seven Bloomberg News articles dealing
with commodity futures markets and exchanges.
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