April 30, 2002
Cooper Named Career Research Excellence Award Winner
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Austin, Texas - He’s the only University of Texas at Austin professor ever known to have taught someone later portrayed by Russell Crowe on film.
But octogenarian William Wager Cooper, Foster Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus of Finance and Management at the McCombs School of Business, won’t be honored by the University Co-op for teaching John Nash, the brilliant mathematician and Nobel Prize winner whose descent into schizophrenia was portrayed by Crowe in last year’s “A Beautiful Mind.”
Cooper has been described as an academic entrepreneur whose research has had significant impact on the fields of accounting, finance, marketing, quantitative methods, managerial strategy, risk management and management science and ethics.
He will be feted with the career research excellence award at the 6th annual Robert Hamilton Book Awards dinner on April 28 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
As he nears 90, Cooper, a famed economist, accountant and physical chemist, shows no sign of slowing. He has co-authored or edited 22 books and monographs and published 476 refereed (peer reviewed) articles in his nearly six decades in academia, the last 22 years of which have been spent on the Austin campus.
Still very active although he lives in a retirement home, Cooper spends most afternoons in his office on campus, although his doctor has ordered him to lay off swimming and one-handed chin-ups.
UT President Larry Faulkner will present Cooper with the research excellence plaque along with a $5,000 check. Faulkner will also announce the faculty winner of the campus-wide outstanding book-of-the-year award, who will receive a plaque and a $10,000 check.
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