School of Business Gazette > June 2004

Faculty-Staff News  

Terry Warfield , associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, is president-elect of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association. He will begin his one-year term as president in August 2004. Following his term as president, Warfield will serve as chair for the Section's mid-year research conference to be held in January 2006.

Assistant Professor Holly Ashbaugh, Accounting and Information Systems, was awarded the Evening MBA Class of 2004 Outstanding Teaching Award. She has taught Analysis of Financial Reports. The award will be presented at the Evening MBA graduation luncheon at Monona Terrace following the Evening MBA graduation ceremony at the State Capitol on July 10.

Senior Lecturer Rod Matthews, Real Estate, was awarded the Beta Gamma Sigma Alpha Chapter Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence during the Chapter's awards breakfast in April. Student officers in Beta Gamma Sigma vote on the award. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student can receive in an undergraduate or master’s program at a school accredited by the AACSB–The International Association for Management Education. 

Carol Aspinwall, associate director of the Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management,was recognized as the Madison APICS Chapter Board Member of the Year for contributions to growing the UW-Madison student chapter, presenting at professional development workshops and actively participating in the National APICS conferences for the past two years. She also made a presentation to the Madison Chapter of American Production and Inventory Control on conflict resolution in the workplace and presented a workshop for Middleton High School students on summer job search strategies.

Associate Professor Mason Carpenter, Management and Human Resources, received a $20,000 grant from the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) to compare corporate governance metrics. Greg Reilly, a Ph.D student in Management and Human Resources, is also involved in the project.

Julie A. Wood joins the Small Business Development Center this month as an outreach specialist. She is the coordinator for the SBDC Business AnswerLine (BAL), a statewide, toll-free business hotline Previously, she was director of operations of the Madison office of Oriel Incorporated. Wood also worked as a financial software consultant for Suby, Von Haden & Associates. She has a B.S. in Education from UW-Madison and is working on a master’s degree in Educational Technology, also at UW-Madison.

Linda D. Davis will join the Small Business Development Center in August as an outreach specialist. She will be an SBDC business counselor serving in Dane, Columbia and Sauk counties. She also will mentor start-up entrepreneurs enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Training Program. She has been president of Virtual Management Solutions since 1994 and has worked part-time as a business counselor for the SBDC since 1995. She has a B.A. from Miami University and an MBA from Old Dominion University.

Retirement Celebration Held

On May 13, School of Business faculty and staff gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of employees who have retired or are retiring between June 2003 and July 2004. Between them, Chris Christensen, Janet Christopher, Sandra Ihle, Gary Lovelace, Don Schwab and Barbara Seffrood have contributed 143 years of service to the School of Business. On hand to accept honorary plaques from Dean Michael M. Knetter (center) were (l. to r.) Gary Lovelace, Janet Christopher, Sandra Ihle and Barbara Seffrood.