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McCombs, TACC Receive Gifts from Chevron to Educate the Next Generation of Scientists

September 5th, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Top Stories

Posted by Christine Burdell

From McCombs Today

Left to right: Chevron’s Jim Green with Jerry Malcolm, Sharon Dunn, Douglas Morrice and Edward Doan of the McCombs School’s IROM Department.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin today received gifts totaling $230,000 from Chevron Corporation to train [...]

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Eight Faculty Earn Endowment Appointments

September 2nd, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News

Posted by Christine Burdell

From McCombs Today
Congratulations to the following faculty members who received endowment appointments effective Sept. 1:
Janet Dukerich – Harkins & Company Centennial Chair
Dukerich joined McCombs in 1989 and since then has established herself as a well known scholar. She is one of the 50 most-citied scholars in the field of management. Her research and teaching expertise [...]

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Carvalho to Join Faculty as Visiting Harrington Fellow

March 31st, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News

Posted by Annette Dalla

From McCombs Today

Assistant Professor Carlos Carvalho (right) of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business will join the McCombs School’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) as a visiting scholar in the coming academic year under the prestigious Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program.”
“Professor Carvalho is an outstanding young researcher in econometrics and [...]

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