Faculty News
More faculty awards and honors
Dr. Scott Vandervelde,
assistant professor in the School of Accounting, is the winner of the Moore School’s 2007 Alfred G.
Smith, Jr. Teaching Award, the school’s highest teaching honor. The award was presented April 27 at
the last faculty meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year. Prior to earning his Ph.D. degree at the
University of Iowa, Vandervelde was an auditor at Arthur Andersen. Vandervelde, who joined the
Moore School faculty in the fall of 2002, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
auditing.
A study by
Dr. Douglas P. Woodward on the effects of Mexican
immigration on South Carolina’s economy received a Notable State Document Award in March 2007 from
the South Carolina State Library.
Woodward is professor of economics and director of the Moore School’s Division of Research. The study by Woodward and a team of international business graduate students, entitled “ Mexican Immigrants: The New Face of the South Carolina Labor Force,” was released last year. It represented the first phase in an ongoing effort by Woodward to understand more fully this exploding segment of the employment base, which has not been tracked. The State Library has presented the awards each spring since 1991 to recognize state governmental publications of “ outstanding merit and usefulness to the citizens of South Carolina.”
Dr. Stacy L. Wood, Moore Research
Fellow and associate professor of marketing, is director of the Center for Neuroeconomic Research
(CNR) at the Moore School. The CNR is a new center aimed at facilitating “ the understanding, use,
and dissemination of neuroeconomic research within the academic community.” Neuroeconomics is an
interdisciplinary field that integrates research in cognitive psychology, economics, and consumer
behavior with neuroscience investigation of brain activity. The goal of neuroeconomic
research? To “better inform models of judgment and decision-making through an understanding
of brain mechanisms.”