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WILTON, CONN., August 19, 2009 — The Deloitte Foundation, a not-for-profit arm of Deloitte LLP, and the American Accounting Association (AAA) have announced the winners of the 2009 Wildman Medal and the American Taxation Association (ATA) Teaching Innovation Award. Both awards are sponsored annually by the Deloitte Foundation. The recipients of this year’s Wildman Medal include Professor Mary E. Barth from Stanford University, Professor Leslie D. Hodder from Indiana University and Professor Stephen R. Stubben from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These leading educators were recognized for their winning submission of a co-authored research paper titled, “Fair Value Accounting for Liabilities and Own Credit Risk.”
Shaun Budnik, president of the Deloitte Foundation and partner, Deloitte LLP, and Professor Audrey Gramling of Kennesaw State University and chairman of this year’s award selection committee, presented the Wildman Award, accompanied by a $7,500 honorarium, to the winning authors on August 4 during the AAA annual meeting in New York City.
“Each year, the Wildman Medal honors outstanding academics who are making an impact on our profession through their leading edge research,” said Budnik. “This award reinforces the importance of expanding the theory and practice of accounting. We congratulate this year’s recipients for their outstanding body of work.”
The Wildman Medal is named in honor of the late John R. Wildman, a partner of a Deloitte & Touche LLP predecessor firm, a professor of accounting at New York University and the first president of the American Association of Accounting Instructors, which later became the AAA.
The ATA Teaching Innovation Award, sponsored by the Deloitte Foundation, was also presented during the AAA annual meeting, at a special awards luncheon on August 3. This year, Marguerite Hutton from Western Washington University was honored for her submission, “Tax Court in the Classroom.” The award’s objective is to encourage creativity and experimentation with new and unusual teaching ideas. It particularly recognizes innovation in tax curriculum currently being taught.
The award presentation, accompanied by a $5,000 honorarium, was presented by selection committee chair, Professor Anne Christensen of Montana State University, and Scott McQuillan, Deloitte’s national campus recruiting leader. This award has been presented annually since 1994, and this year’s honor is the second time Professor Hutton has been recognized. She was previously honored in 2000 for her submission “Structuring a Tax Course to Develop Student Interaction and Analytical Skills: A Peer Review of Student Tax Memoranda.”
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