Yang Nominated for 2025 CSU Faculty Service Award

TSYS School professor of computer science Jianhua Yang has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2025 CSU Excellence in Online Award. This award recognizes those members of our faculty who have contributed outstanding professional service to the University and/or community. Service is defined as the contribution of the faculty member's expertise in his or her discipline to worthwhile efforts of the university, community, educational, environmental, business and economic life of the community. In terms of service to CSU, Yang is currently a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee. At the Turner College level, he is a member of both the Curriculum and Faculty Resource and Development Committees. At the beginning of this semester, the Turner College Dean's Office announced that Yang would be assuming the CAE Coordinator, making him responsible for managing the TSYS School's cybersecurity accreditation efforts. At the TSYS School level, Yang is a member of the Tenure and Promotion, Faculty Search, and Undergraduate Programs Committees, all in addition to serving as Coordinator of the TSYS School's Cybersecurity Program. Next, under the support of an NSA Gencyber grant, Yang and his team held four Gencyber camps on cybersecurity in the summers of 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023. The Gencyber program supported more than 100 middle school girls in four years to study cybersecurity basic skills and concept via playing cyber games, outreach activities, and storytelling. Lastly, Yang served as guest editor on special issues for the Journal of Electronics and Frontiers in Energy Research, in addition to serving as ad hoc reviewer for Senors, Journal of Computers & Security and Journal of Internet Service and Information Security, among others. Turner Business wishes Yang the best of luck in April 2025, when the winner of the award will be named.

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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 ...

Turner College Grad Publishes Academic Study on Corporate Culture and Strategy

Former Turner College student Tamara Todorova , now an associate professor of economics at American University in Bulgaria (AUB), recently published a study on corporate culture and strategy. Todorova earned an MBA from the Turner College in 1996 and then went on to earn a doctorate in international economics from the University of Economics - Varna in 2001. She has been on the faculty at AUB since August of 2000. Todorova's study, which appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Business Performance Management , investigates how corporate culture helps to economize on the transaction costs of internal organization. As she explains, the dimensions of corporate culture that assist in this task include increasing trust and reducing intrafirm opportunism. Todorova's study demonstrates that setting common goals and a common direction reduces the sizeable costs of internal organization. Tamara's prior research appears in Economics of Transition , International ...

Hammer joins Turner College Finance Faculty

The Turner College's Department of Accounting and Finance welcomes Melissa Ingle Hammer , who joins the group as an adjunct faculty in finance. Hammer graduated from the Turner College in 2005, after earning a BBA in finance. She later went on to earn an MBA from Auburn University, a Specialist Certificate in Conduct Risk from the University of Manchester, a Certificate in Team Culture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Certificate in Executive Presence from Cornell University. Hammer is the SVP of Fair Lending Product Management with RiskExec at Asurity. She previously worked as Compliance Manager of Fair Lending at Synovus, a senior regulatory consultant with Wolters Kluwer, and as VP of Compliance at TD. This semester Hammer will be teaching FINC 3135, Financial Institutions and Technologies. Turner Business welcomes Melissa and wishes her a great first semester in the Turner College.

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