Maya Schwabe Takes Home Grand Prize at StartUp Columbus' 2025 LaunchCon BizPitch Competition

Maya Schwabe took home the $20,000 grand prize at StartUp Columbus' recent LaunchCon BizPitch Competition for her app, MindMunch, which turns screen time into study time. As WRBL's Bob Jeswald explains, the competition, co-sponsored by the Turner College and held at the Columbus Trade Center, connects local and regional entrepreneurs through workshops and seminars focused on sharing ideas and strategies for growth. As explained on its website, MindMunch is the first productivity app to integrate customizable, munch-sized quizzes into daily scrolling. The app was developed by a global team of students who got tired of feeling unproductive, unfocused, and overwhelmed —and decided to build the solution themselves. Now they are backed by schools, accelerators, and education leaders who believe in their solution. The company has so far used more that 500 beta testers and received more than 150,000 impressions. Past winners were also present at the recent event sharing their successes. Previous winner Jay Pitts, who works in the clinical research field, explained to Jeswald that "BizPitch, StartUp Columbus . . . all of it . . . was really instrumental in helping me define exactly what I wanted to do." Lastly, Tara Harris took home the runner-up prize of $10,000.

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ABDC Releases 2025 Journal Review, Now Ranks Journal Edited by Phil Bryant

The long-awaited journal review being conducted by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has been released and there are a number of news items that relate to faculty in the Turner College. One of these is the ABDC's decision to now include Compensation and Benefits Review in its journal rankings. This is big news for the Turner College as its editor, Phil Bryant , is a professor of management in the Turner College. The ABDC is proposing that the journal enter its system for the first time as a C-rated journal. Acting Turner College Dean Tesa Leonce sits on the journal's editorial board, while Turner College management professor Mark James has guest-edited an issue of the journal. Published by SAGE, Compensation & Benefits Review is the leading journal for senior executives and professionals who design, implement, evaluate and communicate compensation and benefits policies and programs. The journal supports compensation and benefits specialists and academic ex...

New Butler Center Report Identifies Employment Gaps in the Columbus Area

Officials in the Turner College's Butler Center for Research and Economic Development recently put the finishing touches on an extensive report on trends in educational programs and occupations in the Columbus area. The report also includes data on business and technology trends. According to Fady Mansour , Director of the Butler Center, there are several key takeaways from the report regarding 10 occupational gaps that currently exist in the Columbus area. First, software development occupation exhibits the biggest labor shortage, with the report adding that the TSYS School has a bachelor's degree program in information technology along with a new AI track for the bachelor's degree in computer science, both of which can qualify students for this occupation. Other educational programs are in demand, such as computer programming and cloud computing. Second, there is a gap of 30 employees per year in general and operations management. This gap could be addressed by the Turn...

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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