2019 Scholarship Breakfast: Former Dallas Mayor Emphasizes Need for Education
Former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tied education to economic viability in a keynote conversation at the Jindal School’s major annual fundraiser, the Scholarship Breakfast. The event raised enough to provide scholarships for more than 40 students.
UT Dallas Wins Ethics Case Competition
A Jindal School junior in accounting and a School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences freshman in political science won the Eller Collegiate Ethics Case Competition recently. Their collaboration earned them each $500 and a trip to New York.
Accounting Alum Earns Top CPA Exam Recognition
Jindal School accounting alumnus Matthew Brooks, MS’18, passed all four sections of the CPA Exam on his first try and scored so well that he earned an esteemed award recognizing him as being at the pinnacle of the 86,000 test-takers last year.
JSOM Internship Expo Creates Opportunities for Students and Employers
The Jindal School’s Undergraduate Internship Expo brought together 1,500 students and recruiters from more than 50 companies. The expo helped students practice networking skills, and it helped employers find students to fill internships.
Phi Beta Lambda Turns in Strong Performance at Texas State Leadership Conference
Based in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, the UT Dallas chapter of the student organization Phi Beta Lambda brought home 26 first-, second, and third-place awards from the Texas State Leadership Conference.
Seven Dallas ISD Students Commit to UT Dallas as Jindal Young Scholars
The Jindal Young Scholars Program, an outreach initiative that helps Dallas Independent School District students prepare for college, welcomed it second cohort recently. Seven DISD students signed letters of intent to enroll at UT Dallas this fall.
Fraud Summit Audience Grows, Hears Keynotes by Embezzler and Two Investigators
The 14th annual UT Dallas Fraud Summit brought nearly 1,000 people to campus. They came to the Jindal School-hosted event for continuing education in internal auditing and to hear speakers who included top investigators and a reformed fraudster.
Jindal School Accounting Team Takes Second Place in Case Competition
Jindal School accounting students placed second in the annual Grant Thornton Metroplex Case Competition with an advisory plan for a fictional furniture and imported goods retailer laboring to stay in business.
Financial Accounting Standards Board Member Brings Accounting to Life
Jindal School students got a career-highlight opportunity to meet and interact with a financial reporting “deep thinker” when Financial Accounting Standards Board member Christine Botosan spoke at JSOM on FASB’s operations and current projects.
JSOM Senior Wins $5K Scholarship
JSOM senior Rachel McKenna won a $5,000 scholarship from the charitable arm of Ascend, a Pan-Asian professional organization. A leader in the UT Dallas Ascend chapter, McKenna will use the money to help fund her graduate studies in accounting.
Financial Executives International Honor Late JSOM Professor with Scholarship
A new Jindal School scholarship funded by the Dallas chapter of Financial Executives International honors the late Dr. Constantine Konstans, a former chapter president and founder of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance.
