Ten African-American Accounting Students Win Doctoral Fellowships

The KPMG Foundation has announced that 10 African Americans are among the 11 first-year doctoral students who will receive $10,000 as part of KPMG’s Minority Accounting Scholarship program. The scholarships can be renewed for up to five years of doctoral study. All together the foundation awarded $390,000 in Minority Accounting Scholarships this year.

The program, which seeks to increase the number of minority students teaching accounting at U.S. business schools, now offers financial assistance to a large percentage of all minority doctoral candidates in accounting in the United States.

The 10 new African-American scholarship winners are listed below along with the university at which they are studying for their doctorate. Note that six of the 10 students are at historically black universities.

• Dereck Barr, University of Mississippi
• Cathalene Bowler, Morgan State University
• Elicia Cowins, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Paige Gee, Temple University
• Aisha Meeks, Jackson State University
• Wayne Nelms, Morgan State University
• Genese Rogers, Morgan State University
• Menghistu Sallehu, Drexel University
• John Williams, University of North Texas
• Reginald Wilson, Jackson State University

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