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Sheetz Named PricewaterhouseCoopers Senior Faculty Fellow

Steven Sheetz, professor of Accounting and Information Systems in the Pam- plin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was recently appointed the Price- waterhouseCoopers Senior Faculty Fellow of Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The PricewaterhouseCoopers Senior Faculty Fellowship of Accounting and Information Systems was established through gifts from alumni and friends employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation to support outstanding faculty in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems. The fellowship appointment is for five years.

Sheetz received his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He joined Virginia Tech in 1996 as an assistant professor. He received tenure in 2002 and was promoted to full professor in 2015. Sheetz conducts research on the impact of social and online systems and communities on participants. His research focuses on information sharing, including the complexity of developing information systems, design and use of software metrics, effects of work pressure on IT project teams, use of social media and web archiving related to crises, and affective decision-making. He has published 23 peer-reviewed journal articles and 26 proceedings addressing contexts ranging from the impact of social media in Tunisia to patient-centered care in electronically supported health care. Sheetz has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in database management, information systems design, structured systems development, and programming. He has contributed to the highly ranked master of information technology program.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University and an MBA from Northern Colorado University.

Stein Named Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellow

Sarah Stein, assistant professor of Accounting and Information Systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was recently named the Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellow of Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellowship in Accounting and Information Systems was established by the alumni partners of Deloitte to support the research and teaching of the department’s professors “whose work shows remarkable promise.” The endowment was made possible by the Deloitte Foundation and the collective efforts of various members of the Deloitte community. Stein joined Virginia Tech in the fall of 2013. Her research examines factors influenc- ing audit quality and efficiency. She has published four articles in peer-reviewed journals, two of which are published in one of the top journals in accounting. She is a frequent presenter at top academic conferences. She also serves on one editorial board and is a reviewer for several prominent journals in accounting.

Stein has taught a range of auditing courses and published two teaching cases in the top accounting education journals. She has also served on four doctoral dissertation committees and is working on several research projects with current and former doctoral students. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from Truman State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Before entering the Ph.D. program, Stein worked as an audit manager at Deloitte in Denver, Colorado.

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