National Awards
March 6, 2018

Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award
GREG JENKINS, John E. Peterson Jr. Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, was one of three co-authors to receive the Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award at the 2018 American Accounting Association Auditing Section midyear meeting for their 2010 publication in The Accounting Review, “Auditors’ Use of Brainstorming in the Consideration of Fraud: Reports from the Field.”

Design Service Award
Faculty members ALAN S. ABRAHAMS, WEIGUO “PATRICK” FAN, and G. ALAN WANG; and RICHARD GRUSS, a business information technology doctoral student, received the Design Science Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Information Systems Society. The researchers created a suite of text analytics tools that can identify hazards in consumer products.