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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear members of the Texas A&M University-Commerce community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">With great professional satisfaction and personal pride</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am delighted to announce that
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he Board of Regents of
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Texas A&M University System has honored Dr. Srinivas Nippani with this year’s
<i>Regents Professor Award—</i>the </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">S</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ystem’s highest distinction for exemplary performance and professional service by a faculty
member. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Nippani, our Economics and Finance Department, and our College of Business for this award. This coming spring semester we will have a formal convocation to honor Dr. Nippani and his family for this wonderful achievement.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dr. Nippani joined Texas A&M University-Commerce in 2002 as an assistant professor of finance. He was promoted to associate rank in 2005 with tenure and was promoted to full
professor status in 2009. He was the 2012 recipient of H.M. Lafferty Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity. This is the highest award given for scholarship and creative activity by
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Texas </span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A&M</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> University</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Commerce. He is also the inaugural winner of
Texas A&M University-Commerce’s 2010 Provost Award for Full Professor for Research and Creative Activity for the College of Business. He was a finalist for the prestigious national John Robert Gregg Award in Business Education in 2013. Dr. Nippani has taught
seven different graduate level courses and five different undergraduate courses at
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Texas A&M-Commerce.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">He is an excellent teacher who consistently receives good evaluations. He also serves on the editorial boards of two journals and served as an ad hoc reviewer for sixteen academic journals.
He served a two year term on the Board of Directors of the Southwest Finance Association. He also served on the program committee of SWFA for a number of years. Dr. Nippani was the first director of the MS Finance program at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
His work in creating, planning and coordinating this program was very instrumental in its success. He also chairs the Faculty Committee in the College of Business. This committee oversees AACSB accreditation, ethics, hiring procedures and tenure procedures.
He also served as chair of the Academic Life </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">C</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ommittee while serving on the faculty senate. He is a mentor for junior faculty
in the college.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dr. Nippani is among the University’s top researchers and publishers. His work has been published in such high level finance journals as Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Fixed Income, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, The Journal of Economics and Finance, Review of Financial Economics, Applied Financial Economics and Managerial Finance among others. He
is one of the leading researchers in the nation on the issue of Treasury Default Risk. His work on
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">T</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">reasury default risk and other works have been cited/summarized in over a dozen textbooks, the U.S. Congress,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he Government Accountability Office,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he National Bureau of Economic Research,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he Australian Parliament blog,
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he United Nations Economic and Social Council, several policy making bodies such as
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he Reserve Bank of India, Bank of Greece, Lowry Institute for International Policy (allied to Brookings Institution), National
Bank of Belgium and the Center for Financial Analysis and Policy at the Judge Business School in University of Cambridge. His two recent works on Treasury Default risk published in the Journal of Fixed Income, a top journal with three Nobel Prize winners on
its board of editors have been both summarized twice in the CFA Digest, the leading outlet for finance practitioners. Two leading law journals that influence policy cited his work on Treasury default. His work has also been cited in the New York Times, Washington
Post, CNBC.com, USA Today and Huffington Post among others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would like to close with a heartfelt thank you
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">to </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">all
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">for what </span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">you do to further the mission of our university and also want to express my sincere appreciation for the privilege of serving as your Provost. I wish each of you and your families a peaceful and
enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Adolfo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">Adolfo Benavides<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">McDowell Administration Bldg Room 280<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">P. O. Box 3011 - Commerce, TX 75429<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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