Beacom School of Business

VERMILLION, S.D. – Beacom School of Business senior Megan Thomas won first place in the 2018 Project Run With It team competition at the Beta Alpha Psi annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.

VERMILLION, S.D. – Srinivasan Ragothaman, Ph.D., was awarded the “2018 Outstanding Researcher Award” by the strategic and emerging technologies section of the American Accounting Association (AAA). Ragothaman is a professor of accounting and interim chair of accounting and finance at the University of South Dakota’s Beacom School of Business.

VERMILLION, S.D. – The USD Neuroscience, Nanotechnology & Networks Program (USD-N3), in collaboration with the Beacom School of Business and the Graduate School, hosted the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for faculty, staff and students of all disciplines to learn how to market their research to business and commercial sectors.

VERMILLION, S.D. -- The Summer Accounting Institute, hosted by the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota, attracted 30 high school students from across the country to learn about the accounting profession and opportunities within the accounting field. This was the largest turn-out in the 11-year history of the institute.

VERMILLION, S.D. – Three Beacom School of Business students received Accounting Excellence Scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year from the South Dakota CPA Society. The society awards scholarships annually totaling $9,500, and Beacom students received $4,000 of this total.

VERMILLION, S.D. – Carrie Wintle, a University of South Dakota business administration and mathematics graduate, was crowned Miss South Dakota.

VERMILLION, S.D. – The student chapter of Financial Management Association (FMA) in the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota has been named a 2017-18 Superior Chapter.

VERMILLION, S.D, –Beacom School of Business student John Oynes was recently awarded the 2018 Pi Sigma Epsilon President’s Award of Special Merit. Oynes graduated in May with a major in health services administration.

VERMILLION, S.D. – Conrad Adam, a graduating University of South Dakota senior, was recognized by the South Dakota Board of Regents for his leadership and vision serving as student regent since 2016.

VERMILLION, S.D. – The Arthur A. Volk Symposium, together with the Beacom School of Business, hosted international best-selling author Dan Roam to speak about using simple pictures to solve financial and technology problems.