Dr. Michael Moore, professor of accounting, has been selected as the recipient of the Arkansas Society of CPAs 2010 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. The Arkansas Society of CPAs will formally recognize Moore at its Awards Banquet, to be held during the ASCPA Annual Convention, June 3-5, 2010 at the DeGray Lake Resort State Park Lodge near Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Moore will become the Arkansas nominee for the National AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award. Last year, Moore was appointed by Arkansas Governor Beebe to serve a five-year term as a member on the Arkansas State Board of Public Accountancy.
Patricia Mounce, associate professor in the Department of Accounting and Ken Griffin, associate professor in the Department of Management Information Systems, recently published an article entitled, “A Case Study of Paper Mill Emissions: Controlling Pollution While Adding Additional Resources,” in Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly.
Roy Whitehead, professor of business law, and Patricia Mounce, associate professor of accounting, recently hosted a four-hour continuing professional education seminar entitled “Ethics: Rules, Responsibilities and Realities” to a group of accounting alumni. They also conducted the seminar for a group of CPAs in Little Rock.
Jim Downey, assistant professor of Management Information Systems, and L. Smith recently had their article “The Role of Computer Attitudes in Enhancing Computer Competence in Training” accepted in the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing.
Doug Voss, assistant professor of marketing and supply chain management and director of Center for Cooperative Logistics Education, Advancement, and Research, along with David Closs and Gilbert Nyaga, recently published a manuscript entitled “The Differential Impact of Product Complexity, Inventory Level, and Configuration Capacity on Unit and Order Fill Rate Performance,” in the Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 28, issue 1, p. 47-57. The Journal of Operations Management is a top journal in the fields of Operations and Supply Chain Management.
Dr. Mark E. McMurtrey, assistant professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) in the College of Business, will be participating at the annual meeting of the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute to be held at the Dallas Sheraton Hotel on March 2 – 6. McMurtrey is serving as Track Chair for Decision Support Systems/Expert Systems/Knowledge Management (DSS/ES/KM), as well as chairing a session on that topic. His research paper, “Seniors and Information Technology: Much Ado About Something?”, will be presented at a session on MIS as well. His coauthors are Drs. Ronald E. McGaughey, James P. Downey, and Steven M. Zeltmann, all of the MIS Department in the College of Business. The paper investigates the use of computers and information technology by senior citizens. Last spring, McMurtrey, McGaughey, and Downey published another article in this general area, entitled “Seniors and Information Technology: A Potential Goldmine of Opportunity?” in the International Journal of Intercultural Information Management, Volume 1, Number 3, May 2009 , pp. 300-316. IJIIM is an international journal that only publishes 20% of the articles submitted for review.
Dr. Susan Myers, assistant professor of marketing, was recently awarded a grant from the American Academy of Advertising. The $1,500 grant will fund a research study titled, “Finding the Consumer in Direct- to-Consumer Advertising.”