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Department News

Sunhee KIM Honored by the IIA Austin chapter

Sunhee Kim has been awarded the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Austin Chapter Student Scholarship. She is currently enrolled in the Master in Professional Accounting program, is a member of the IIA and worked as an internal auditor at Merit Medical Systems, Inc. She also attended the IIA Internal Auditing Education Partnership program (IAEP) Leadership and Networking Conference in Orlando last October as a UT accounting student representative.

Accounting PhDs Accept New Positions

Margaret Christ will be joining the faculty at the University of Georgia. Her dissertation is titled “Intending to control: An experimental investigation of the interactions among intentions, reciprocity and control,” and Professor Steven Kachelmeier was her dissertation chair.

Shankar Venkataraman has accepted a position at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta. The title of his dissertation is "The joint impact of commitment to disclosure and prior forecast accuracy on managers’ forecasting credibility." Professors Eric Hirst and Lisa Koonce co-chaired his dissertation committee.

Mark Your Calenders

McCombs Alumni Relations invites all McCombs graduates to join them at alumni receptions this summer, planned in cities across the country and in international locales. Meet up, catch up, network with old friends and make new ones. For more information and to RSVP, go to http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/alumni/summer_receptions/index.asp

McCombs Department of Accounting Again Earns Clean Sweep in PAR Rankings

McCombs again made it a clean sweep in the rankings from Public Accounting Report, taking the No. 1 spot on the lists of the most admired undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in the United States, according to the publication’s 26th annual survey of accounting professors. Public Accounting Report bases the rankings on the largest national survey of accounting academics. This marks the 14th consecutive year that the McCombs School's professional-level graduate program—the Master in Professional Accounting (MPA)—earned the No. 1 spot in the survey. For more on Department of Accounting rankings, go to http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/facts/rankings.asp.

Smith named Harrington fellow

James Smith, doctoral student in accounting, has been awarded one of twelve Harrington Fellowships for 2007-2008. The coveted University of Texas fellowship was created to support gifted and ambitious scholars who will share their knowledge and success with future generations.
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Crawley awarded one of ten deloitte fellowships

Michael Crawley, Accounting Ph.D. student, is a recipient of the Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Accounting for 2008. One of ten winners nationwide, Crawley will receive $5,000 during his final year of course work and $20,000 during the subsequent year of completing a dissertation. Learn more about the fellowship.

Eight Texas MPA students receive TSCPA Scholarships

Congratulations to these MPA students who have been awarded $1500 scholarships by the Accounting Education Foundation (AEF) of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants:

Trevor Angelle Broussard
Katherine M. Clemens
Lauren Elaine Kessler
Tulsi Jitendra Sachde

Lyra Gesseme Burgess
Elizabeth Anne Gawlik
Jenna Kathleen Pickel
Natasha Pennie Tosirisuk

Contributions from TSCPA members and businesses have provided over $4.4 million in support scholarships and other AEF programs since 1957. Click here to learn more about TSCPA and AEF