The University of Colorado Denver Business School is pleased to announce the second round of faculty awards from the Tom and Jane Petrie Faculty Development Fund.  The selection committee, chaired by Dr. Marcelle Arak, reviewed an impressive number of proposals before choosing award recipients. The quality of proposals received by the selection committee, which also included Dr. Ajeyo Banerjee, Dr. J.C.Bosch and Dr. Woody Eckard, made decisions difficult, but the committee ultimately made the following awards:

• Dr. Vinit Desai was given an award to pursue the project “Acceptable Losses: Commodity Transportation and Evaluation of Systems Safety”
• Dr. Yufeng Han was given an award to pursue the topic “Are there exploitable trends in commodity futures prices?”
• Dr. Craig Sisneros was given an award to work on the topic “Economic Incentives for Earnings Management – Is it a close substitute for Hedging? Evidence from Energy and Metal/Mineral Sectors”

Congratulations to all of the recipients of the Tom and Jane Petrie Faculty Development Awards!

For more information about any of the projects mentioned above, contact the respective faculty members: craig.sisneros@ucdenver.edu, yufeng.han@ucdenver.edu, vinit.desai@ucdenver.edu