April 22, 2010
Etc.: Campus news & notes
AEROSOLS AND CLIMATE UW Atmospheric Sciences Professor Robert Charlson, who has spent decades researching the effects of tiny airborne particles called aerosols on climate, has been selected to deliver the third Bert Bolin Lecture in Climate Research at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. In his lecture next month, Charlson will trace the history of research on aerosols’ effect on climate and discuss the need for much more work on this problem, since the effect of aerosols remains the biggest uncertainty in climate change research.
The lecture is named for a meteorology professor at Stockholm University who was instrumental in establishing the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which produces periodic reports assessing the state of climate change. The panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
PHD PRODUCTIVITY: The UW Foster School of Business doctoral program in accounting ranks among the top five in the world, according to a new study measuring the research productivity of such programs. The study, conducted by a team of researchers at Brigham Young University and Utah State University, based the rankings on the number of articles published by doctoral graduates in 11 top accounting journals during the years immediately following their graduation.
Foster accounting alumni who graduated between the years 2000 and 2009 rank second in the world for articles published within three years of graduation; accounting alums graduating between the years 1990-2009, rank fifth. Rankings were also compiled separately by topical area and by research methodology. For articles published in the topical areas within three years of graduation, those with Foster accounting doctorates ranked second in financial, third in tax, sixth in managerial and twenty-fourth in audit. With respect to research methodology, they ranked second in empirical and fifth in experimental.
The Foster Accounting doctoral Program is small compared to programs at larger public schools, with 12 to 15 students in residence at a time and two or three graduating each year.
PROUD POETS: A team from the UW made it as far as the semifinals for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, a four-day event coordinated by the Association of College Unions International. The UW team was one of 10 teams to emerge from preliminary bouts among 35 entrants, even though this was the first year the University had sent a team. The top four teams went on to the finals, where the University of Wisconsin-Madison emerged as the winner.
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