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n Monika Piazzesi, an associate pro- fessor of finance at the Univer- sity of Chicago Graduate School of Business, has won the 2005 Bernácer Prize as the best European economist under the age of 40 focusing on finance or macroeconomics. The Bernácer Prize, sponsored by Spanish bank La Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, includes a cash award of €25,000, approximately $31,500 in U.S. dol- lars. Winners must have a national- ity from one of the countries in the European Union. Piazzesi is a citi- zen of Germany. n Honors have been bestowed upon two individuals from the Uni- versity of Alabama's Culverhouse College of Commerce and Busi- ness Administration in Tuscaloosa. J. Barry Mason, dean of the business school, has been inducted into the Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame. In addition, Robert W. Ingram, Ross-Culverhouse Endowed Chair of Accountancy and senior associate dean of the school, has been selected to receive the 2006 Cornelius E. Tierney/Ernst & Young Research award presented by the Association of Government Accountants. GIFTS AND DONATIONS n Columbia Business School in New York City has received gifts totaling $45 million from three alumni. Rus- sell L. Carson and Henry R. Kravis each will donate $10 million, and Arthur J. Samberg will give $25 million. All three alumni donors are leaders in the investing community. The Samberg gift is a challenge grant that will endow faculty chairs. The Carson gift will support Busi- ness Practice Partnerships—which team faculty with corporate leaders on internships and research initia- tives—as well as the Social Enter- prise Program. The Kravis gift will underwrite a new center for case study development. n The College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers has been renamed the Lutgert College of Business in honor of support- ers Raymond and Beverly Lutgert. Their gift and matching state funds will provide $18.8 million dollars to construct Lutgert Hall, the new home for the business school. Real estate developer Raymond Lutgert organized the first planned develop- ment in Florida. n Undergraduate business students across the state of Arizona have a chance to benefit from the McCord Scholars program funded by Robert and Sharon McCord. Their $10 mil- lion gift will be divided among three universities: $6 million will go to the W.P. Carey School of Business at Ari- zona State University in Tempe; $3 million to the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona in Tucson; and $1 million to the Col- lege of Business Administration at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. n The Eller College of Manage- ment at University of Arizona in Tucson has established two new chairs as the result of significant gifts from alumni. The Jim and Pamela Muzzy Chair in Entrepreneurship will be offered to a tenured faculty mem- ber who will serve as the executive director of the McGuire Center and be a leader in the school's entre- preneurship research. The Salter Distinguished Professorship in Man- agement and Technology, made possible by a donation from Peter W. and Nancy Salter, will support a partnership between the Eller Col- lege and the College of Engineering. Mohan Tanniru is the newly named Salter Professor. OTHER NEWS n CATAAlliance, Canada's largest high-tech association, has renamed its longstanding award for the best technology product of the year in Canada. The award is now known as the University of Ottawa School of Management Award For Private Sec- tor Leadership. n In its ongoing series of reports called "A Closer Look at Business Edu- cation," The Aspen Institute offers a look at how busi- ness schools are slowly inte- grating social and environmen- tal issues into the teaching of finance. The report offers both commentary by experts and resourc- es for case studies and additional information. The report can be found at www.beyondgreypinstripes. org/pdf/financereportpr.pdf. n The Center for Sport Manage- ment at Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business in South Orange, New Jersey, has launched the Seton Hall Sports Poll Conducted by The Sharkey Institute. The Sports Poll will examine issues relating to sports in society, including moral and ethi- cal concerns. n z BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2006 15