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Six alumni and one company were honored recently with 2018 Pamplin Awards - Rising Alumni, Mentoring, Ut Prosim, and Corporate Ambassador awards from the Pamplin College of Business.

Continuing their efforts to foster diversity among accounting faculty, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has awarded its annual Minority Doctoral Fellowship. Each of this year’s recipients will be given $12,000 to aid them on their journey towards becoming accounting professors and serve as role models to future CPAs.

“Knowledge and skills are essential, but it is equally imperative to develop yourself as a leader, teammate, and friend. This is the most important lesson I learned as a student in the Pamplin College of Business,” said Helena Snow, of Chester, Virginia, who will graduate from Virginia Tech on Dec. 14 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting and information systems.

Washington, November 1, 2018 -- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced today that George Botic has been named the director of the Division of Registration and Inspections, the PCAOB’s largest division.

Jacob Shortt has been awarded Pamplin's 2019 Certificate of Teaching Excellence. Jacob Shortt has been with Virginia Tech since the Fall of 2016. He has taught Intermediate Accounting Part I and Part II, Accounting Systems and Controls, and most recently a newly created class, Accounting Analytics. Jacob developed the Accounting Analytics course over the Summer of 2018 with the input of his colleagues and through insights gained from the 2018 American Accounting Association Intensive Data and Analytics Summer Workshop. He first taught this course in the Fall of 2018 and continues to teach it.