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New research by the Director of the Turner College's Center for Economic Education, Frank Mixon , and Kamal Upadhyaya of the University of New Haven, provides a citations-based ranking of Black academic economists in the U.S. Based on citations data compiled using the Google Scholar Profile feature in the Publish or Perish open-source software package, the study identifies the top 230 Black academic economists. This group has garnered almost 300,000 citations, with a  mean of 1,269 and a standard deviation of 3,200.   The median and mode number of citations for this group are 213 and 16, respectively.  The study, which is set to published in a future issue of the Review of Black Political Economy , reports that Caroline Hoxby,  the  Scott and Donya Bommer Professor  at Stanford University ranks first with 25,228 citations.  Hoxby is followed by Cecelia Rouse, the Katzman and Ernst Professor  at Princeton University, with 17,397 citations. In ...

Currently a technical project manager with over 20 years of experience in information technology, TSYS School graduate Jay Knape has demonstrated progressive responsibility working in analytical and collaborative efforts for the development, execution, and management of technical strategic plans. After graduating in 1998 from Howard Payne University with a bachelor's degree in communications, Jay took a position as multimedia computer programmer with Gulliver Richie Associates in Norcross, Georgia. There he  produced Web-based and CD-ROM multimedia training modules for varied businesses and industries, using Authorware. Two years later, Jay moved to Quisic - Arthur Anderson Virtual Learning Network in Atlanta, where he held the position of custom solutions programmer. From there he came to CSU as a technical project manager in 2002, later rising to Manager of Web Services in 2008, Senior Manager of Web Content Services in 2011, and Project Management Officer. During this time Jay ...

Turner College associate professor of management Phil Bryant recently surpassed 2,500 career Google Scholar citations. Additionally, Google Scholar reports that his i 10-index is equal to 13, meaning that Bryant has published 13 studies that have each garnered at least 10 citations. Google Scholar also reports two additional metrics. One of these is a scholar’s h -index, which is the largest number, h , of a scholar’s publications that have each garnered at least h citations. Bryant’s h -index is 11, meaning that his 11 most-cited studies have each generated at least 11 citations. Another Google Scholar metric is a scholar’s g -index, which is the largest number, g , of a scholar’s publications that have collectively garnered at least  g 2  citations. Bryant’s g -index is 33, meaning that his 33 most-cited studies have collectively produced at least 1,089 citations.  Bryant's top-cited publication is a 2010 study on retaining talent that appears in  Acade...

Columbus CEO recently spoke with Patrick Aiken, the Director of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, about the Turner College's academic programs in cybersecurity. Aiken spotlighted the Nexus programs, emphasizing that graduates earn four important industry certifications during their studies. These certifications are highly marketable, and graduates have secured employment with Global Payments, Aflac, Synovus and other companies that benefit from the expertise gained by these students. Aiken also touched on the TSYS School's graduate degree offerings in cybersecurity and cybersecurity management. Be sure to click the link to learn more about these programs.

The CSU Department of Athletics had four student-athletes graduate in the Turner College's Fall Class of 2023 commencement ceremonies on Thursday, Dec. 7 and Friday, Dec. 8. Commencement was held in the Frank G. Lumpkin, Jr. Center on CSU's Main Campus.  The Turner College graduates of CSU Athletics include four student-athletes from four sports: cross country/track & field, men's basketball, tennis and women's soccer. Cross Country/Track & Field Justin Love - Master of Science, Cybersecurity Management Men's Basketball Joshua Guilford - Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing Tennis Mariana Ramirez - Bachelor of Business Administration, General Business Women's Soccer Brooke Ouimette - Master of Business Administration Congratulations to the Class of 2023 and best of luck in your future endeavors.

Turner Business congratulates Mariana Ramirez on earning a BBA in general business at last week's Turner College graduation ceremony. Mariana is a native of Pereira, Colombia, and as of last week a graduate student member CSU's varsity tennis team. Last year Mariana posted a 12-6 overall singles record, and a 6-1 record in Peach Belt Conference competition, playing in the #1 singles position. Mariana also posted a 9-1 doubles record playing in the #1 doubles position with Sara Ramirez. Last season Mariana was named to the All-Peach Belt Conference First Team in doubles, as well as the All-Peach Belt Conference Second Team in singles. Prior to joining CSU's team, she competed for Eastern Arizona College. Mariana will begin pursuing an MBA from the Turner College in the spring semester.  Turner Business wishes Mariana the best of luck in both her academics and athletics pursuits going forward. CSU's first tennis match of the upcoming season will be played against Ander...

 

Turner College alum  Rashel Asfour has had  quite an interesting career in  higher education management and  academic affairs . After earning a BS in applied mathematics from CSU in 2011, Asfour entered the MBA program in CSU's Turner College. She earned that degree in 2012 while working as a resident assistant on CSU's main campus. Equipped with her CSU education, Asfour then took a research position in  the Suliman Olayan School of Business at the American University in Beirut. In this position she a ssisted the Executive Director of Undergraduate Programs in various research and student services-related projects. From there Asfour took a research role at Lebanese American University wherein she  assisted the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research in research development projects. After filling this role and being about two years beyond earning an MBA from the Turner College, Asfour worked for almost seven years as a lecturer at both Lebanese Canadian Univ...

The TSYS Center for Cybersecurity recently held a meeting of its Advisory Board during which Patrick Aiken summarized for members all of the cybersecurity-related accomplishments of the TSYS School.  Aiken summed up the value of the Center's Board for  Turner Business , noting " How blessed am I to get to spend [time] with this incredible group of executives who are true partners and servant leaders. So much energy and so many ideas about improving the [TSYS School's] cybersecurity Nexus program."  Supporters of the Turner College likely do not know who the members of the board are at the current moment. They are: Mark Bradford — Director of Information/Cybersecurity, W.C. Bradley Company Kevin Gowen  — Chief Information Security Officer, Synovus Lee Himes  — Senior Director of Cyber Threat Management, Synovus Alicia Herring  — Chief Business Information Security Officer, Cognizant Mike Kane  — Senior VP of Global Security Operations, Global Payments ...

Beginning in January of 2024, Michelle Zeller will bring more than 30 years of professional experience with companies like Eastman-Kodak, Char-Broil, Newell-Rubbermaid and others to Turner College classrooms on a full-time basis as the newest member of the organization's marketing faculty. Zeller, who will hold the position of lecturer, serves as an executive advisor to Think Consulting, a national technology and operations advisory practice that provides on-the-ground transformation and consulting, led by executives and adapted for the mid-market. She is also a C-Suite member of Chief, a private network built to drive more women into positions of leadership. In addition to Turner College marketing students, students in sections of the College's Introduction to Business course will also benefit from her educational and professional expertise. It is also possible that Turner College entrepreneurship students will benefit from her instruction. Zeller holds a bachelor's degr...

Turner College faculty Fady Mansour and Uma Sridharan  will soon complete a site visit to Dubai in preparation for a new study abroad program for Turner College students. Pending a successful site visit, the new program will commence in December of 2024 and potentially be an annual program that takes place each December, shortly after completion of fall semester. Mansour informed Turner Business that he is hoping the new program will also include a visit to Abu Dhabi. This will be exciting news for Turner College students. Stay connected to Turner Business  for updates on the team's site visit.

New research by TSYS School computer scientists Yi Zhou and Linqiang Ge develops artifact and design principles for a campus-wide crisis management system for dealing adverse events, such as the  COVID-19 pandemic.  Drawing upon crisis management literature and the uncertainty reduction theory, their study, which appears in the current issue of Information & Management , develops a preliminary crisis management system with three fundamental components – dashboard, portal, and forum – geared toward aggregating environmental information, expert knowledge, and stakeholder insights.  This immediate, integrated, and interactive campus crisis management system discussed in the study aims to promote organizational learning through knowledge acquisition, dissemination, and utilization while reducing stakeholders’ uncertainty about the crisis.  "Through comprehensive evaluation, we further synthesize and summarize new design principles for prospective artifacts, includi...

The recent visit to the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity by ISSA-Columbus Chapter President and Turner College alum Benjamin Price  was a huge hit. In fact, one of the Center's classrooms was filled in anticipation of Ben's visit, when centered around the use of Python for Security Engineering. "I  enjoyed it . . . and am happy that I was able to give a little back to the community that's given me so much. Thanks to everyone who came and supported this event," Price stated. It was clear that attendees were the real winners.  According to Amari Gamble, a cybersecurity graduate of Pinellas College, " The speech on the content was great. I was very glad to see Mr. Price and be in that environment once again."  If you are a current or aspiring cybersecurity professional in the Columbus or surrounding area, you have an open invitation to attend any of these events.

The notion of "fake news" has risen in prominence in the U.S. political arena over the past decade, largely due to the proliferation of social media platforms.  A recently published study by TSYS School computer scientist Yi Zhou and colleagues from Yangzhou University and Auburn University proposes  a computational approach for detecting fake news in a real time. Their method, described in the 2023 volume of Expert Systems with Applications ,  leverages event and topic extraction techniques in tandem with a topic merging mechanism to process news data and reduce the number of topics. "Our  approach incorporates a two-stage procedure to optimize the cold-start ratio between initial and other data batches to improve memory management  during the processing of streaming data," Zhou explained. Computational experiments in different system settings for benchmarking the proposed methodology demonstrate that it takes less time in detecting fake news by reducing the n...

This Friday, December 8, CSU will celebrate the 734 Columbus State University students who comprise its Fall 2023 graduating class. The festivities will include three ceremonies throughout the day that mark the university’s 126th commencement exercises. The Turner College, which will confer 172 degrees, will kick off events with a 9:00 am graduation ceremony. Computer science professor Shamim Khan will be serving as one of the marshals at this ceremony.  Counting all academic levels, the top five disciplines — in order of the total number of degrees and certificates to be awarded — are public safety, business administration , nursing, cybersecurity and health science. Two of these five disciplines are housed in the Turner College.  This fall’s ceremonies will mark the first over which Stuart Rayfield  will preside as the university’s president. She began her tenure in June 2023 and was formally installed as the university's sixth president in October 2023.    ...

With the rapid growth of cloud computing, frequent workload bursts show an increasing influence on the quality of service and energy efficiency of cloud-based data centers. Existing virtual machine placement schemes are expected to optimize either quality of service or energy efficiency for cloud data centers running under bursty workload conditions. To bridge this gap, new research by TSYS School computer scientist Yi Zhou  and his colleagues at Jinan University, Hainan University, University of Exeter and Auburn University proposes a burst-aware and thermal-efficient virtual machine placement technique that leverages a split-and-recombine algorithm to deal with bursty workloads.  Their technique prioritizes critical workloads while preventing low-priority workloads from starvation, thereby assuring quality of service. It does so by  utilizing an enhanced simulated annealing algorithm to offer optimal thermal-efficient virtual machine placement solutions, aiming to minim...

For the first time in the history of collegiate sports, college athletes can be compensated without the risk of losing their status as amateurs. New research by Turner College alum Stephanie Parrish-Chester   explores the impact that Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) laws have had on the financial performance of the universities in the Southeastern Conference. The correlational study, which appears in a recent issue of the International Journal of Management and Humanities , analyzes the profitability of universities before and after passage of NIL legislation to determine if there is a correlating pattern. Parrish-Chester is currently a doctoral student at Hampton University. She has a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA from CSU's Turner College. During her undergraduate studies, Stephanie was a member of the CSU women's soccer team,  Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, NAACP, Accounting Club, Who’s Who Among College Students, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholar...

Information security experts, Joseph Frantz and Benjamin Knox , recently visited the Synovus Center on CSU's main campus to speak to the TSYS School's cybersecurity Nexus students. Frantz is the Director of Information Security and Cyber Threat Defense at Synovus. Knox, a former TSYS School Nexus student, is IAM Engineer at Synovus. Frantz earned an A.D. in avionic systems technology from the Community College of the Air Force in 2011. That same year he completed the B.S. degree in from the University of Phoenix.  In 2013, Frantz earned an MBA from the University of Phoenix, which he followed up a year later by earning a second A.D. (military information systems technology) from CCAF. Lastly, in 2018 he earned an M.S. in information assurance from the TSYS School. Frantz and Knox spoke to the Turner College students about Zero Trust Security. The visit was summed up aptly by Patrick Aiken , the Director of the Turner College's TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, " It's...

Turner College grad Renitta Sweet was recently named Communications Chair for the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals. Renitta, who is currently the Manager of Sales and Marketing for the New York-based the*gameHERs, holds a bachelor's degree in management and marketing from CSU. "The Urban League Young Professionals has been an incredible way to become involved and active in my community. Since 2016 I've served as a founding member of the Columbus chapter, Treasurer and then President. I was excited I had the opportunity to continue in service after relocating to Atlanta," Sweet explained. Renitta is also a member of the Junior League of Atlanta, AMA Atlanta, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Chattahoochee Valley. Turner Business salutes Renitta for her philanthropic efforts and professional success .

With over one billion population, India is the third largest consumer of petroleum on the globe. To maintain this position, India imports a substantial percentage of its total oil consumption. The world oil market can be extremely volatile. Given India’s current position as a large importer of oil, how does oil price volatility affect the Indian economy? This question is addressed in new research by Turner College economist Frank Mixon and his co-authors, Kamal Upadhyaya of the University of New Haven and Raja Nag of New York Institute of Technology, in new research appearing in the International Journal of Financial Studies .  Results reported in the study suggest that  innovations in oil prices explain about 10.5% of the variation in India’s aggregate output over three months, rising to about 11.5% over six months, before falling to 10.25% percent over nine months, and again to about 9.5% over one year.         Relatedly, impulse response functions ...