FACULTY NEWS

APPOINTMENTS

• Professor Charles M. Linke was appointed associate dean for graduate affairs this fall. He will continue as chair of the Department of Finance.
• Kevin Fertig has been appointed director of the Executive Development Center. He continues as director of the Executive MBA Program

Faculty appointed to named professorships this past year are:

• Andrew D. Bailey, Jr., professor and head of accountancy, to the Ernst & Young Distinguished Professorship in Accountancy.
• Clifton E. Brown, professor of accountancy, to the H.T. Scovill, Professorship in Accountancy
• Charles M. Kahn, professor of economics, to the IBE Professorship in Economics
• Greg R. Oldham professor of business administration to the C. Clinton Spivery Professorship in Business Administration
• Jay R. Ritter, professor of finance, to the Fred S. Bailey Memorial Chair in Finance.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Peter F. Colwell, ORER Professor of Real Estate, was elected president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AUREA) for 1995.
• Stephen P. D'Arcy, professor of finance, was selected as a University Scholar. This prestigious designation is given to faculty across the campus in recognition of their outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and public service. University scholars receive a stipend of $1200 for each of three years to be used to support their scholarly activities.
• Hun Y. Park, associate professor of finance, was awarded the American Association of Individual Investors Award by the American Finance Society for his paper entitled, "The costs and Benefits of Endogenous Market Making: The Case of Dual Trading." He and his co-authors will be recognized at the AFS annual luncheon.
• Wayne Shafer, Commerce Alumni Professor of Economics, was elected a Fellow in the Econometric Society.
• Ira Solomon, KPMG Peat Marwick Distinguished Professor of Accountancy, served as chair of the audit section of the American Accounting Association for 1994-95.
• Bart Taub, associate professor of economics, was awarded a 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship to study contracts as a means of producing information in society. He was one of 152 scholars across the nation to receive this distinguished award and the only University of Illinois faculty member to receive one this year.
• Richard E. Ziegler, the Grant Thornton Professor of Accountancy, was selected to receive the St. Louis Accountancy Committee Excellence in Teaching Award. He was recognized for this achievement at a reception in St. Louis on May 24.

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