Alumni Newsletter Fall 2021

Jean Lacoste Named Darrell D. and Betty R. Martin Junior Faculty Member Jean Lacoste, assistant professor of practice in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, has been named the Darrell D. and Betty R. Martin Junior Faculty Fellow in Accounting and Information Systems by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The Darrell D. and Betty R. Martin Junior Faculty Fellowship was created through a gift from Darrell D. Martin, a 1972 graduate of Virginia Tech, to allow the Department of Accounting and Information Systems the flexibility to recruit, hire, and retain the best faculty. The fellowship, which is to reward teaching and scholarly excellence by those holding the rank of assistant or associate professor, is for a three-year period.

A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1997, Lacoste has been a leader in the practice and development of online education. Her work has explored effective teaching practice in both synchronous and asynchronous online learning environments with a specific emphasis on student engagement in large online sections. She has developed effective multimodal education for as many as 1,600 students a year, giving students the opportunity to choose how they interact with learning materials while enhancing learning, engagement, and satisfaction. Her contributions to innovations in delivery and course development have been noteworthy, receiving strong evaluations from her students and colleagues. This year, Lacoste was awarded the Pamplin College of Business’ 2021 Certificate of Teaching Excellence. In 2016, she received Virginia Tech’s Diggs Teaching Scholars Award. She is the third Pamplin faculty member to win this award since its inception in 1992. Lacoste received her bachelor’s degree from Salisbury State University and her master’s degree from the Department of Accounting and Information Systems. Courtesy of Sookhan Ho and Mark Owczarski Wayne E. Leininger Professorship Awarded to Ling Lisic Jean Lacoste

Ling Lisic was awarded the Wayne E. Leininger Professorship in August 2021. She is also the ACIS Ph.D. Program Director. Ling’s research interests focus on archival tests of economic theories of auditing and financial accounting. Ling has published 12 papers in FT 50 journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Production and Operations Management, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Review of Accounting Studies. She is ranked as a top 1% author on SSRN by paper downloads. Ling is an editor of Journal of International Accounting Research and has previously served as a guest editor for Journal of Business Research. She also serves on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. She has reviewed for many leading business journals and has been invited to present at more than 50 universities worldwide. Ling’s teaching interests are in auditing, financial accounting and managerial accounting, at the Ph.D., master, and undergraduate levels. She has taught Auditing and Intermediate Financial Accounting I to master and undergraduate students, Introductory Financial Accounting to master and undergraduate students, and Financial Statement Analysis and Introductory Managerial Accounting to undergraduate students.

Ling Lisic

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