The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has given awards to two women academics for their innovative teaching practices.
Karen Tabak, associate professor of accounting and economics at Maryville University in St. Louis, was honored with the 2011 George Krull/Grant Thornton Teaching Innovation Award for using art and drawing to enhance critical thinking skills of students in junior- and senior-level accounting courses.
Priscilla Wightman, chair of the department of business administration and accounting at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, received the Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award for her first-year seminar course, “$Chocolates$.” In this course, entry-level accounting students studied the financials of the world’s largest chocolate companies.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.