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AIS Newsletter |
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IS SECTION / AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION. |
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Congratulations! |
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Awards presented at the Mid-year Meeting in January 2008: · Distinguished Service as Mid-Year Meeting Chair to Mary Curtis · Distinguished Service as New Scholars Consortium Chair to Greg Gerard · Mid-Year Meeting Outstanding Research Paper presented to Efrim Boritz and Jee-Hae Lim of the University of Waterloo for their paper “IT control weaknesses, IT governance and firm performance.” · Mid-Year Meeting Outstanding Education Paper presented to Guido Geerts and Kinsum Tam of the University of Delaware for their paper “KaDo: An Advanced Enterprise Modeling, Database Design, Database Implementation, and Information Retrieval Case for the Accounting Information Systems Class.”
Carolyn Strand Norman, VCU Congratulations to Carolyn Strand Norman of Virginia Commonwealth University for being named the Associate Editor for AIS Educational Research at Issues in Accounting Education. Carolyn was chosen to help in the review and selection of AIS education research and encourages you to submit your work to Issues.
Murphy Smith, Texas A&MMurphy Smith, accounting professor at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School, was presented the Distinguished Teaching Award by the Academy of Educational Leadership at its international conference in Reno, Nevada in October 2007. The award recognizes Smith's innovative and creative teaching. Smith is a long-time member of the IS Section. He first taught accounting information systems at the University of Mississippi in 1982.
During his academic career Smith has taught classes at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral level. He has also attained a notable research record and is ranked in the top one percent of U.S. accounting faculty according to number of articles published in leading accounting journals, ranked 2nd among 1983 doctoral graduates. His work has been cited in various news media, including Fortune, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Photo: Dr. Murphy Smith (left) receives the Distinguished Teaching Award from Conference Chair Dr. Jim Carland.
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