10 Accounting Ph.D. Students Receive $25,000 Deloitte Fellowship Grants

The Deloitte Foundation has awarded ten $25,000 grants to top accounting Ph.D. candidates through the Deloitte Foundation’s annual Doctoral Fellowship program.

Given to students who plan to pursue academic careers upon graduation, the award will support the 2017 recipients’ final year of coursework and the subsequent year to complete their doctoral dissertations.

This year’s recipients and the institutions they attend are:

Hailey B. Ballew, The Ohio State University
Andrea K. Down, University of Michigan
Raphael Duguay, University of Chicago
Michael T. Durney, Cornell University
Nicholas M. Guest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert H. Hills, Duke University
Kevin C. Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Jessica C. Watkins, Indiana University
Edward M. Watts, Stanford University
Chengi Zhu, New York University

“Growing the pipeline of accounting educators is critical to developing future talent and strengthening the accounting profession. The Doctoral Fellowship grants provide financial support to assist accounting Ph.D. candidates complete the requirements to become an accounting professor,” said Tonie Leatherberry, president, Deloitte Foundation. “This is just one of many foundation programs that are helping to advance education.”

Each year, approximately 100 universities are invited to apply for the fellowship. Student applicants are nominated by the accounting faculty of their school. A selection committee composed of four eminent accounting educators chose this year’s recipients.

The Deloitte Foundation, founded in 1928, is a not-for-profit organization that supports education in the U.S. through a variety of initiatives that help develop the talent of the future and their influencers and promote excellence in teaching, research and curriculum innovation. The foundation sponsors an array of national programs relevant to a variety of professional services, benefitting middle/high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, and educators. Learn more about the Deloitte Foundation.