Ambrose Jones III, a faculty member in the Bryan School of Business and Economics, is profiled in a 3½-minute video on MSN Money, “Invest in Yourself: Getting a Ph.D.”MSN is the fifth most visited website in the world.

The video, produced and edited by associate professor of media studies Michael Frierson, is part of the “Invest in Yourself” series, sponsored by Merrill Lynch, featuring individuals who find a second career in the second stage of their lives.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Jones spent 33 years in public accounting, 23 of those as a partner in the national firm McGladrey & Pullen. In May 2007, he attained a lifelong goal: a PhD in accounting.

During his graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business, his interests moved towards behavioral research in accounting. His dissertation, “Antecedents and Consequences of Life Choices in Public Accounting,” focuses on the role stress, coping mechanisms and job outcomes play in public accounting.

Jones, in his fifth year at UNCG, teaches accounting and auditing.

“My life now consists of being a full-time professor at UNCG and focusing on the three components of being a professor: research, service and teaching,” he says in the video. “I attack each one of those very enthusiastically.”

Frierson has created other videos for MSN. In July, he traveled to New York with Colby Gottert, an MFA student in his department’s film and video production program, and his son, Evan, UNCG Class of 2013, to document the 9/11 memorial at ground zero that opened on the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Their videos, posted on the video website of MSN’s BING, about the role of firefighters who responded; the significance of the memorial; and personal memories of being on the scene that day from Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the memorial, have attracted almost 90,000 views. Gottert shot the videos; Frierson produced and edited them; and Evan Frierson served as a production assistant.

9/11 videos by Michael Frierson:
Memorial honors sacrifice by first responders (2:25)
Tour the new 9/11 memorial (2:26)
Memories of attacks still fresh (4:44)
Time-lapse of memorial construction on July 19 (0:59)

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