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				New Professorships Richard D. Phillips, associate professor of risk management and insurance, has been named Bruce A. Palmer Professor. Phillips earned this honor for his superior scholarship, excellence in teaching and commendable service record. Upon his retirement in fall 2001, former chair and professor Bruce A. Palmer was honored by the Board of Trustees of Educational Foundation, Inc. and Dean Sidney Harris with the establishment of a professor-ship in his name. Martin F. Grace, professor and associate director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research, became the first holder of the James S. Kemper Professorship. Grace was selected from a small group of internationally recognized leaders in risk management and insurance education. Accountancy William F. Messier, Deloitte & Touche LLP professor and interim department chair, was named editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. In addition, Messier joined some of the nation's leading financial researchers and practitioners at the Deloitte & Touche/University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems. Messier, along with other academic researchers and representatives from all of the "Big Five" accounting firms discussed the issue of fraud in the industry and how to prevent it and suggested ways to enforce the recommendations. Lawrence D. Brown, distinguished professor, presented to a group of quantitative analysts and money managers at the Eighth Annual Corporate Earnings Analysis Seminar in New York City. Brown also will assume a three-year term as an editor of The Accounting Review, the premier research journal of the American Accounting Association. Computer Information Systems Vijay K. Vaishnavi, professor, has been elected to IEEE's (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) highest grade of membership: an IEEE fellow. The grade of fellow is given to a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Balasubramaniam Ramesh, associate professor, was awarded Georgia State's Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award for 2002. The award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated excellence in research, teaching and service. Ramesh is the first CIS faculty member and only the third Robinson College faculty member to receive this university-wide recognition. Finance Alfred Mettler, assistant professor, was in Switzerland to present a three-day seminar for senior bankers enrolled in the Swiss Banking School's Advanced Executive Program. Mettler serves on the permanent faculty of the Swiss Banking School. Marketing Daniel C. Bello, Marketing RoundTable Professor, presented a research project on export channels to Eastern Europe at the Third Annual International Business Research Forum, hosted by the Institute of Global Management Studies at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. Don Cook, assistant professor, was appointed to the publications board for the International Society for Quality of Life Studies and will be on the advisory board for the Doctoral Student Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association. Corliss Green Thornton, associate professor, was a member of the winning team that received the Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Excellence in Communications Education at the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) Foundation's 31st Annual Faculty/Industry Seminar. Risk Management and Insurance William S. Custer, associate professor, was appointed to the State of Georgia Governor's Action Group on the Accessibility and Affordability of Health Insurance. Group members represent a broad base of citizens, insurance providers and policy makers who are concerned about the accessibility and affordability of health care in Georgia. Sanjay Srivastava, Carnegie Mellon University's Alumni Professor of Economics and Finance and director of the university's Center for Financial Analysis and Securities Trading, joins the department as a visiting professor. He will serve as director of the department's mathematical risk management program. David P. Richardson, financial economist with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis, also joins the department. Richardson specializes in public sector and international economics, applied econometrics, industrial organization, employee benefits, and Social Security and Medicare taxation. He received the distinguished Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award while a fellow at Boston College. Top

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