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New research out of the Turner College's Center for Economic Education examines whether compensating wages and price differentials exist across cities in the U.S. The study, authored by Bishwa Koirala of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Hem Basnet of Methodist University, Kamal Upadhyaya of the University of New Haven, and Frank Mixon , Director of the Center for Economic Education at CSU,  calculates the net implicit monetary values of the cost of living in cities with a higher cost of entertainment offerings. These net implicit monetary values reflect an individual’s willingness to pay for, or willingness to accept, life in cities with a higher cost of entertainment offerings. Viewed in this way, a city’s entertainment offerings are not clearly an amenity or disamenity. On the one hand, the higher costs of entertainment offerings might reflect higher quality offerings. On the other hand, higher costs of entertainment offerings may be a disamenity perhaps because t...

Turner Business occasionally examines the Google Scholar citations of the Turner College business faculty. At latest check, the research conducted by the 14 individuals comprising the corps of instruction of the Department of Management and Marketing, which also includes management information systems faculty, has to date garnered 11,692 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 835.1 Google Scholar citations per faculty member. The research conducted by the 10 individuals comprising the corps of instruction of the Department of Accounting and Finance, which also includes economics faculty, has to date garnered 7,001 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 700.1 Google Scholar citations per faculty member. Given these figures, the research of all 24 business faculty comprising the Turner College's corps of instruction has to date garnered 18,693 Google Scholar citations, for an average of 778.9 Google Scholar citations per faculty member. Lastly, when all 28 Turner College b...

TSYS School associate professor of computer science Lixin Wang has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2025 CSU Faculty Research and Scholarship Award. This award recognizes  outstanding efforts by faculty members in research and scholarship. The award is meant to celebrate the value of these activities, particularly for their role in contributing to the faculty's intellectual growth. It implicitly recognizes the role of research and scholarship in the enhancement of a faculty member's teaching and service capabilities. Since joining the TSYS School in August of 2016, Wang has produced 22 journal publications. Among these are papers appearing in Tsinghua Science and Technology and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , both rated among the A-level journals on the Turner College's publication lists. In addition to these, Wang has published twice in both Electronics and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ...

Six students from the TSYS School recently  had the opportunity to attend the ACM Mid-Southeast Conference. They are  Md. Nurullah , Gaurob Saha , Trenton Jones , Kaleb Horvath , Yasser Mahmoud , and Luka Wilmink . TSYS School faculty are par ticularly proud to highlight Md. Nurullah, a graduate student who was mentored by TSYS School Director Rania Hodhod and Turner College management professor Kirk Heriot , who earned 3rd place for Best Presentation for his research titled "Extracting Entrepreneurial Insights from Open-Ended and Unstructured Survey Data Using NLP Techniques."  A huge congratulations is also due to Helle Friis and Walker Smith for contributing their outstanding work to this project.

TSYS School associate professor of computer science Hyrum Carroll has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2025 CSU Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes  a faculty member's strong commitment to teaching and learning. The criteria for selection include demonstrated use of classroom activities designed to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and/or global and multicultural understanding; use of effective teaching strategies to enhance student learning, such as innovative uses of technology, active learning, learning communities, student portfolios, and assessment; and a strong commitment to fostering academic success through interaction with students outside of the classroom (e.g., advising, mentoring, recruiting, etc.).  During his seven and a half years in the TSYS School, Hyrum has taught an average of 97.6 students per Fall and Spring semester, totaling 1,045 unique students across 66 course sectio...

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 Sch...

Patrick Aiken , Director of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, recently visited management information systems Professor  Jennifer Pitts ' MBA class to speak with students about some cybersecurity concepts. According to Aiken, " Among other things, [the students] were curious about how to protect themselves, so I shared some common sense 'cyber hygiene' best practices." The students also got the chance to tour the newly renovated first floor on the Synovus Center, where the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity is located.