Tippie Magazine (Winter 2022) - Tippie College of Business

EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMIST NEW
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
David J. Cooper is the new departmental executive officer for
the Department of Economics. As an experimental economist,
Cooper says he was attracted to the storied department, in part
for in role its pioneering the Iowa Electronic Markets,
the world’s first prediction market.
#16
BEST
PUBLIC BUSINESS
ANALYTICS PROGRAM
IN THE NATION
(U.S. News & World Report, 2022)
New Leadership in
the Undergraduate
Program Office
Charles Wayne Keene became the
new associate dean for the Undergraduate
Program in July 2021. Keene stepped
into the role that was held by Ken Brown
since 2014. Brown, who holds the Tippie
Children Professorship, returned to his faculty
position in the Department of Management
and Entrepreneurship.
ACCOUNTING PROFESSOR COLLINS TO RETIRE—
EXCELLENCE FUND ESTABLISHED IN HIS HONOR
Dan Collins (BBA68/PhD73), a force in the University of Iowa Department of
Accounting for more than four decades, is retiring at the end of the 2021-22
academic year. Kay Rath Hegarty (BBA80) and her husband, John Hegarty Jr.
(BA79), are honoring Collins through the creation of the Kay and John Hegarty
Accounting Faculty Excellence Fund, which provides funding to faculty for their
most pressing needs. Collins was also honored with the 2021 Hancher-Finkbine
Faculty Medallion. The award, the most prestigious at the University of Iowa,
recognizes individuals of extraordinary ability and potential.
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