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A new study by TSYS School computer scientist Yi Zhou and TSYS School students Prudhvi Raj Nelapatla and Elijah Starkey  asserts that the rapid growth of large language models has made training energy efficiency  a major systems and sustainability challenge. As they explain, training requires substantial computation,  memory, communication, and electrical energy, yet the literature often treats runtime,  floating-point operations, memory, communication, cost, energy, and carbon as inter changeable indicators of efficiency. To examine these issues, the trio of researchers  critically reviewed 54 research papers and  one supporting software tool across measurement and carbon accounting, model and  numerical efficiency, memory and communication, distributed planning, GPU power con trol, carbon-aware scheduling, lifecycle design, and reliability. They classified evidence as  direct, modeled, simulated, reported-comparison, or enabling, while they in...

The Turner College Awards & Scholarships Committee is making progress to restore the financial stipends to the organization's annual faculty and staff awards. The committee chair, management professor Mark James , has been working overtime to provide the needed information to Kimberly Gill,  the Interim Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs in the CSU Provost's Office and point-person for that office on this project. As explained by Gill, under the USG Incentive Compensation and Rewards Policy, any award with a monetary value must be part of an incentive plan approved by the USG Office of Fiscal Affairs and Office of Human Resources before it may be awarded or paid. Individual college awards are not submitted to the System Office individually. Instead, they must be included in CSU's institutional incentive plan. The approval process for that to happen requires information be provided to the USG regarding (1) purpose, (2) eligibility, (3) nomination process, (4) award c...

New research by Turner College management professor Johnny Ho, Yaojie Li of the University of New Orleans, David Ang of Auburn University at Montgomery, and Tristan Shytle of Home Depot, explains that supply chain management is a dynamic business concept that continually adapts  to the evolving market landscape. Dating back to the ninth century, individuals have engaged in the trade  of goods, which requires a number of interconnected systems that revolve around the ideas of trust,  risk, and opportunity. Supply chain management addresses critical issues and frequently uncovers inefficiencies in  current models and solution approaches. To better understand and mitigate these inefficiencies, Ho and his co-authors state that  there is a growing focus on researching and implementing supply chain risk management, which  fosters transparency among all supply chain participants, enhancing the likelihood of a  seamless process with optimal efficiency. While g...

Nominations from the Turner College for the 2026 CSU Faculty and Staff Awards will soon be named. Each April, CSU confers awards to faculty for teaching excellence, research and scholarship, service, the scholarship of teaching, teaching innovation, graduate education, online teaching excellence, and creative endeavors. At the most recent awards ceremony in April of this year, Turner College economist Wen Shi won the CSU Teaching Innovation Award, joining Turner College accounting professor Charles Boster on the stage, who won the CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award. During that same ceremony, TSYS School computer scientist Yesem Kurt Peker won the CSU Teaching Excellence Award.  In April of 2025, the TSYS School's Linqiang Ge won the CSU Online Teaching Excellence Award, while Turner College finance professor Brett Cotten won the CSU Chappell Graduate Faculty Award and Turner College accounting professor Jasmine Bordere won the CSU Scholarship of Teaching Award. Stay connect...

TSYS School cybersecurity lecturer Elke Brumbaugh has departed CSU for a new position with FIS. Brumbaugh remarked on her LinkedIn account earlier this evening that she is blessed  "to start a new journey at FIS today as a Senior Mainframe Software Engineer," and that she "is grateful for her CSU journey over the past six years" and "extremely excited about this new journey." Only two hours after making her announcement this evening congratulations and well wishes were pouring in from other LinkedIn connected professionals, including officials at CSU and Turner College and TSYS School alumni. Turner Business congratulates Elke on this professional milestone and wishes her the best going forward.

TSYS School students  are taking cybersecurity learning beyond the classroom.  Faculty and students from the TSYS School recently participated in the BSides Cybersecurity Conference, connecting with cybersecurity professionals and exploring current tools, practices, and emerging challenges in the field.  Experiences like BSides give students an opportunity to learn directly from the cybersecurity community, expand their professional networks, and connect what they are learning in the classroom with real-world cybersecurity practice.  In these ways students actively engaging with the professional community and taking advantage of opportunities that help prepare them for their future careers.  Thanks are due Yesem Kurt Peker and Christopher Lovelock for their ongoing mentorship and commitment to helping students grow beyond the classroom.