Turner College Activities Update

Columbus State University recently received confirmation that it has been re-designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD). As Patrick Aiken, Director of the Turner College’s TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, explained to Turner Business, “So much vision and tireless effort goes into this type of prestigious award. There is no way to recognize everyone who played roles in this designation, but special recognition has to go to . . . [TSYS School] . . . . Shamim Khan, and . . . Graduate Programs Coordinator, Yesem Kurt Peker for managing the application process that allowed us to earn this designation.

Atlanta Braves Senior Coordinator for Event Services, Jamiya Brinson, will be visiting the Turner College on Thursday, February 23, at 12:30 pm. Brinson will be speaking in the Synovus Center Theater on professional research, customer service and event management, all topics relevant to courses taught by Becca Jones, assistant professor of marketing in the Turner College, who invited Brinson to address students. Brinson earned a B.S. in exercise science in 2015 and an M.S. in sport and fitness management in 2018, both from Georgia State University. She is on track to earn an MBA from the University of Georgia later this year. She is an experienced events professional with a demonstrated history of working in the sport management industry.

CSU recently hosted the Scholastic Gaming and ESports Conference at the Cunningham Center. Thanks are due to Rodrigo Obando, a computer science faculty member in the TSYS School, and to Turner College students, Michael Grantham and Mary Alderman, for assisting with the event. Grantham thanked CSU for giving him the chance to talk about his experience at SGEC 2023, noting to Turner Business, “I can’t wait to see what’s next for our gaming community here at CSU.”

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Four Turner College Faculty Recognized for Outstanding Teaching

CSU Head Women's Soccer Coach Jay Entlich recently released a list of CSU faculty who have been chosen by a player as a member of the CSU faculty who has impacted the player in a positive way along their journey at CSU. Four Turner College faculty were included on the list, along with the player who nominated each. Management professor Phil Bryant was named by Sophia Leal , a freshman midfielder from Oxford, Georgia. Sophia attended Eastside High School and was a two-time all-region selection during her high school career. Through the first 10 games of 2024, she has scored one goal and recorded three assists. Next, management professor John Finley was named by Lizz Forshaw , a graduate student forward from Stockton, England. Lizz, who attended IMG Academy in south Florida, has scored four goals and recorded four assists this season. During her senior year in 2023, she scored three goals and recorded two assists. As a junior in 2022, Lizz scored three goals ...

Seven Turner College Management and Marketing Faculty Have Combined to Produce Eight A-Level Journal Publications Between 2021 and the Present

A number of faculty in the Turner College's Department of Management and Marketing, which includes faculty in management information systems, have produced A-level journal publications in the last few years. This report covers that activity, starting with John Finley , the chairperson of the department. Professor Finley published a paper in the Journal of Computer Information Systems in 2022. Finley is joined by Kirk Heriot , the Crowley Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship. Heriot, who earned a PhD in management from Clemson University, published in a 2021 issue of Small Business Economics . One of the study's co-authors, Andres Jauregui of Fresno State University, was previously a member of the Turner College's economics faculty. Next is Johnny Ho , a professor of management, who has a 2022 publication in the Journal of Computer Information Systems . Ho has won CSU's Excellence in Research Award on multiple occasions, while he has compiled 2...

TSYS School, Jianhua Yang, Lixin Wang Each among Top Five in the World

New research by computer scientists in the School of Information Technology at Universiti Utara Malaysia that ranks institutions and individuals on the basis of scholarship in the area of stepping-stone attacks heaps praise on the Turner College’s TSYS School of Computer Science and two of its faculty – Jianhua Yang and Lixin Wang . The article, published in the April 2023 issue of the International Journal of Research in Engineering and Science , provides a bibliometric analysis of both publication and citation data from 2000 to September of 2022 related to research on stepping-stone intrusion. Among several results, it reports that Columbus State University ranks second worldwide, trailing only the University of Houston, using total publications on the subject as the basis of comparison. A number of other U.S. institutions appear in the top 10, including third-ranked North Carolina State University, fourth-ranked University of Illinois, sixth-ranked Iowa State U...

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