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03/2008

• MSQFE Students win at international trading competition
  Four Oklahoma State University MSQFE students and their faculty advisers won first place in an international securities trading competition in Toronto last week. MSQFE students: Erin Abercrombie (Tulsa), George Liu (China), Rusty Roush (Arapaho), and Jeff Steichen (Perry) and their advisors, Ali Nejadmalayeri and William Dare, won first place in the securities and trading division and placed 11th overall in the 2008 Rotman International Trading Competition. Students competing in the stock and trading division bought and sold several securities in a simulated market. Oklahoma State’s team won by earning the most profit over two trading sessions, which simulated the frantic bustle of pit trading. Competitors included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Penn State and the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. For more information about MSQFE, go to www.spears.okstate.edu.
  
  

11/2007

• Congratulations to the OSU FMA chapter for receiving the Superior Chapter Award for 2006-2007.
  This highly coveted award is given to fewer than five percent of FMA chapters. To earn this award, our student FMA chapter had to meet a number of specific criteria, demonstrate exemplary chapter management, and excel in providing members program activities.  Achieving this honor requires a high level of effort and commitment from the students and the faculty advisors.

  The OSU FMA chapter received a special plaque to recognize this very significant achievement and will be recognized world wide for this honor on the FMA International Website.  Our FMA chapter has a demonstrated a strong history of excellence having earned the Superior Chapter award for 16 of the last 17 years.

• 2007 FMA Competitive Paper Award
  Betty Simkins and Antonio Camara received the award for the Best Paper Award in Risk Management given by the Financial Management Association. The award for their  paper, Valuing Options when Stockholders face Bankruptcy Risk was presented at the FMA Annual Meeting in October.

• Congratulations to our award winning graduate students! OSU was invited to participate in the 2005 NYMEX Trading Competition hosted at the University of Houston. Our finance graduate students competed as a team in the first phase of the competition and won first place. Five of our students went on to compete in the open out-cry competition in which Arun Aravind won $100, and Michael Benien won first place with $1000 and an internship at the NYMEX. Click here to continue with the story.

• Congratulations to PhD candidate Vinod Venkiteshwaran on being selected as the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate for the Department of Finance.

• In March, OSU sent 6 students to the Financial Management Association (FMA) Leadership Conference in Chicago.

• Congratulations to Tim Krehbiel for passing the certification exam and professional experience requirements for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) credential.

• Congratulations to Dave Carter for being awarded the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award for the College of Business Administration!
• Congratulations to Tim Krehbiel for being awarded the Merrick Award for outstanding teaching of the American Free Enterprise system!

• The OSU Financial Management Association (FMA) chapter has earned the organization’s Superior Chapter award for 2003-2004. The award is given to fewer than eight percent of FMA chapters nationwide and requires a high level of commitment from both students and faculty. Drs. Betty Simkins and David Carter (finance) are the FMA faculty advisors for the local chapter.

• Jessica Henson, MBA Finance student, received the VHA & High Profile Staffing Services 2004 Scholarship. This is an award of $1,000 for going "above and beyond" as recognized by her peers, supervisor and Human Resources. The award committee based their decision on three factors: an essay from the intern describing what the VHA Internship has meant to her, a performance review and input from peers.

• The OSU Student Chapter of the Financial Management Association participated in the OSU Relay for Life on Friday and Saturday, April 2 and 3. The FMA team of 8 students and two faculty from the Department of Finance raised approximately $1200 for the American Cancer Society. The FMA was the only CBA student organization which participated in the event. The nineteen teams in this year's OSU Relay for Life raised approximately $26,000 for cancer research and the American Cancer Society.
• Lauren Manners, a senior finance major from Edmond, has received the prestigious Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship. There are only three given each year. The fellowship is worth $5,000 and is given to graduating seniors to conduct summer internships in London, Paris, and Washington, D.C. Lauren was one of three finalists for the award, competing against students from Stanford and Harvard. She has accepted an internship with the U.S. Embassy in London and will use the scholarship funds to defray expenses from the internship. She was an OSU Marshall Scholarship nominee last fall.
• Three of the ten Outstanding Seniors in the College of Business Administration are Finance majors: Angie Johnson, Lauren Manners and Daniel Manners.

• Congratulations to Dave Carter on being selected for the CBA's Greiner Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award!
• Congratulations to Emily Breit on being selected as an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant!

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