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74 BizEd MAY | JUNE 2015 Joseph E. Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, has been awarded the title of HEC Professor Honoris Causa at a special ceremony held at HEC Paris. Stiglitz is a former senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He was honored for his work investigating the circumstances in which markets operate ine‹ciently and the role of government intervention in improving the perfor- mance of markets. Annamaria Lusardi, academic director of the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center and Denit Trust Chair of Economics and Accountancy at George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C., has received the 2014 William A. Forbes Public Awareness Award from the Council for Economic Education. She received the award, in part, for her development of a financial literacy measure that has been used in national surveys in several countries, as well as for her research outlin- ing the cost and consequences of financial illiteracy. Rowena Ortiz-Walters of Quinnipiac University's School of Business in Hamden, Connecticut, has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Latinos in Connecticut for 2014. The honor is given by Lati- nos United for Professional Advancement. She was nominated for being the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Women & Business at Quinnipiac. The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) recently presented its 2015 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Awards. This year, Mark Weaver of the University of South Alabama in Mobile received the association's Max S. Wortman Jr. Lifetime Achieve- ment Award. Wilburn Clouse of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro received the John E. Hughes Award for Entrepreneurial Advocacy. Wil- liam T. Jackson of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg took the USASBE Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year award. The 2015 Special Rec- ognition in Entrepreneurship Education Innovation Award went to Ohio Northern University in Ada. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded its Söderberg Prize in Economic Sciences to Tore Ellingsen and Magnus Johannesson of the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. The pair, who will receive a prize of SEK1 million (about US$120,000), were recognized for their study of the intersection between economics and psychology. The Journal of Management Accounting Research has given its 2014 Best Paper award to Shane Dikolli of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, North Carolina; Susan Kulp of George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C.; and Karen Sedatole of Michigan State University's Broad College of Business in East Lansing. They were recognized for their work on "The Use of Contract Adjustments to Lengthen the CEO Horizon in the Presence of Internal and External Monitoring." NEW CENTERS & FACILITIES The Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa is developing a new Business Analytics Lab to serve as a research facility where students and faculty will partner with companies to solve real-world problems. Software provider SAS, aerospace company Lockheed Martin, and Healthcare Business Solutions of Birmingham, Al- abama, will donate technology to be used in the lab. Columbia Business School in New York City has announced the creation of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise, which will serve as the hub of all social entrepreneurship activities at Columbia. The center was made possible through an endowment gift from Sandra and Tony Tamer. Among other things, the new center will establish the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, which will award seed grants of up to US$25,000 to early-stage enterprises. The University of San Diego in California has es- tablished its first permanent international studies facility in the heart of Madrid in Spain. To celebrate the opening, which is scheduled to accommodate a summer program, the center conducted a drawing in March to o™er a free round-trip flight to Madrid to an undergraduate who had completed an appli- cation to the fall study abroad program. In February, the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University in Raleigh opened the NC State Entrepreneurship Clinic. The clinic is housed in HQ Raleigh, a collaborative workspace in the city's downtown area. With the aid of faculty, students will work at the center to provide consulting services to area startups and fuel new applied research in entrepreneurship and commercialization. COLLABORATIONS The Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C., has partnered with the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI) Foundation to support the reduction of conflict and promote equitable economic growth in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The GSEI and NDPI will work together to increase awareness of the regional economic benefits of conflict mitigation; improve the NDPI's organizational e™ectiveness and stakeholder engagement; and share and showcase best practices in corporate responsibility. people+places Vlerick Business School Goes to Russia In January, Vlerick Business School in Belgium opened its new campus in Saint Peters- burg, Russia. Located close to the Hermitage and the Nevsky Pros- pekt in the city center, the campus includes employee o•ces, a video conference room, six breakout rooms for student teams, a lounge area for up to 100 people, and a flexible auditorium space that can be set up for small classes, meetings, or large networking events.