February 18, 2010
Etc.: Campus news & notes
PATRIOT SALUTED: UW Tacoma History Professor Mike Allen is getting national attention since a book he co-authored, A Patriot’s History of the United States, hit the number one spot on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble’s best seller lists. The book was published in 2004 and revised in 2007, so why the sudden attention? It’s considered the conservative’s answer to The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, a liberal who died last month. And Glenn Beck, a national conservative talk show host, recently interviewed Allen’s co-author, Larry Schweikart, from the University of Dayton. Beck has talked about the book several times on his show, so apparently his listeners are buying it. Allen got local coverage for the feat from the Tacoma News Tribune.
INVESTMENT CHAMPS: A team of five MBA students from UW Bothell won the Pacific Northwest Investment Research Challenge organized by the Seattle CFA Society, after competing against teams from seven other universities in the region. The UWB team will now represent the Pacific Northwest at the Americas Investment Research Challenge in New York City next month, where they will compete against 30 teams from North and South America. The winning team in New York will move on to the Global Investment Research Challenge in Hong Kong in April 2010.
The team worked for nearly two months to produce an investment advisory report on Fisher Communications, a Seattle-based broadcasting firm. They met with the CEO and CFO of the firm to understand the nuts and bolts of its business operations, forecast future growth prospects and make financial projections on profitability and stock prices. Ahmed Khalil, Ashna Nagi, Patrick McShane, Shau Pang and Teddy Lin, all MBA students at UW Bothell, were on the winning team. Gowri Shankar, associate professor in the UWB business program, was the faculty sponsor.
