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12 November/ December 2014 BizEd headlines TROPHY: ESKAYLI M /TH I N KSTOCK I LLUSTRATION: LUCIANO LOZANO/G ETTY I MAG ES Accolades for Accountants MORE THAN A dozen awards were handed out to faculty and practitioners at the American Accounting Association's annual meeting this summer. Among the prizes was the Innovation in Accounting Education Award, sponsored by the Ernst & Young Foundation. This year's award went to a group of 11 practitioners and academics who created "This Is Accounting," a simple visual model that re-envisions how accounting can be taught. "Currently, accounting education is perceived to be black-white, debits- credits, answer-in-the-back-of-the-book, and boring," says one of the group win- ners, Ellen J. Glazerman of the Ernst & Young Foundation. "In our vision of teaching accounting, you start with economic activity, which is when someone does something, and you record and describe it through accounting activity. Each descrip- tion requires accounting judgments and critical thinking, and there are consequences to every decision." Other honors announced at the event were the Out- standing Accounting Educator Award, which went to Wayne R. Landsman of the University of North Caro- lina in Chapel Hill and John C. Fellingham of The Ohio State University; and the Outstanding Service Award, which went to Gail Hoover King of Purdue University Calumet and Martha M. Eining of the University of Utah. See a full list of winners at aaahq.org/awards/ PressRelease/2014.htm. Top Prize for BizEd BIZED WAS named Magazine of the Year by the Flor- ida Magazine Association as part of its 2014 Charlie Awards competition, which honors writing, design, website, advertising, and overall excellence among Florida-based publications. BizEd also took home five other prizes in the com- petition. Three were Charlie Awards, which are the equivalent to gold. One was for best overall maga- zine in the association category, and one was for best OCK I theme or show issue. BizEd received its third Charlie for best service feature, "For Profit, For Good," which was written by Jane Hughes and appeared in the Novem- ber/December 2013 issue. The magazine received two additional awards for writing excellence: a silver for best ser- vice feature, "Attracting the Best Faculty," written by co-editor Sharon Shinn and published in the Septem- ber/October 2013 issue; and a bronze for the editorial "Light It Up," written by co-editor Tricia Bisoux and published in the November/December 2013 issue. NSF Partners With More B-Schools THE NATIONAL SCIENCE Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will provide a multimillion dollar grant to create a hub of innovation that unites public and private institutions throughout Southern California. The hub will be headquartered at and administered by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, and the University of California Los Angeles. The new center is part of the NSF Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, initiative, which helps entrepreneurs learn how to commercialize technologies generated by NSF-funded research. The NSF works with partners in the private sector to secure funding and additional resources to help entrepreneurs' startups succeed. Other I-Corps "nodes" already exist in the San Fran- cisco Bay Area; New York City; Washington, D.C.; Georgia; and Michigan. NSF also is adding a node in Texas. (For more information about I-Corps, see "Bringing Ideas to Market" on page 31 of the November/December 2013 issue of BizEd.)