The Bill Daniels Business Ethics Initiative team at the David Eccles School of Business recently announced this year’s recipients of the Daniels Fund Leadership in Ethics Awards, which are open to faculty, staff and Ph.D. students who make significant contributions to ethics education at the University of Utah.

Finance professor Cal Boardman, the school’s Bill Daniels Chair of Ethics, announced the honorees, who come from across different programs and departments, but who all worked during 2012 to increase and enhance ethics education.

University of Utah researcher and Operations and Information Systems professor Xiao Fang and his colleagues were faced with a mystery: What factors have fueled the explosive growth of Facebook and other social networking sites over the past two years?

On October 4, 2012, Facebook reported it had topped 1 billion users, while runners-up Google+ and LinkedIn cleared the 400 million and 175 million accounts, respectively. For the world’s most popular social network, Facebook, the past two years have seen user totals more than double.

A team of five accounting students from the David Eccles School of Business won the regional round of the FanTAXtic tax case competition run by the Deloitte Foundation, earning a January trip to Texas to vie against eight other schools from across the country in the finals.

The team from the U will be competing in Texas against the likes of Michigan State University, the University of Missouri, St. John Fisher College, the University of South Florida, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas and the College of William & Mary.