November Faculty Features

John Everett, Ph.D., School of Business
Everett, professor in accounting in VCU's School of Business, has been presented the 2004 Outstanding Service Award by the American Taxation Association. During his career, Everett has served on over 30 of the association's committees and held the positions of president and vice president. He also is the co-author of several textbooks, a past editor of the association's monograph "Tax Planning for Educators," and has published over 70 articles in professional and academic journals.

Everett's latest edition of TaxPoint, an interactive taxation course, is available for previewing on line at http://taxpoint.swcollege.com. The association and other tax organizations recommend TaxPoint for building essential technology skills. Everett co-authored TaxPoint with Cherie O'Neil, Ph.D., Colorado State University.

William J. Frable, M.D., Department of Pathology
Frable is the 2004 recipient of the Fred Waldorf Stewart Award, presented annually by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Pathology Department to an individual who has made significant contributions to the study of human neoplastic diseases or the growth of benign or malignant abnormal tissue. Frable's many contributions to the field of pathology, and cytopathology—the study of disease in cells, center on diagnosis and education. His contributions during the past 40 years include hundreds of published papers, dozens of book chapters, four major textbooks and numerous workshops and lectures. Frable will receive the award at a ceremony this month at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Justin Miller, School of the Arts’ Art Foundation Program
Miller was awarded a Fulbright Grant in the field of painting and printmaking by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board. He will leave to study in the Republic of Georgia in February 2005. The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its inception, the program has exchanged over a quarter million people who have studied, taught or researched abroad and nearly 163,00 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The program operates in more than 150 countries worldwide.