Faculty presentation: Mr. Scott Anderson, instructor in computer science, coordinator of computer science program, presented Update on IndianaComputes! And Summer Camps at USI to the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation Computer Science Faculty.
Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting, speaks with WEHT's Brad Byrd about tax reform
Faculty presentation: Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting, presented his paper, "Feeling GILTI: Tax Strategies for U.S. Multinational Corporations to Navigate the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" at the 2019 American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Faculty publication: Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. Jill Oeding, assistant professor of business law. Their article, "A Practical Guide to Interpreting Statutes for Business Professionals" was published in the Journal of Business Law and Ethics.
Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting, received the 2019 JLTR Outstanding Paper Award for his article, "A Legal Analysis of State Tax Policy for Online Sales: The Recipe from Direct Marketing," published in the ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research (JLTR). He was recognized at the 2019 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The AAA is the largest community of accountants in academia and the premier accounting organization in academia.
Faculty presentation: Dr. Perry Burnett, associate professor of economics, was invited to be a presenter at the luncheon event of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). His presentation was titled, “Welcome to the Bubble Age: Asset Collapse, Fake News and Euphoria”.
Faculty presentation: Dr. Perry Burnett, associate professor of economics, presented, "The Road to Happiness is Paved with Deception" at USI's 2019 Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Movement(s).
USI names Carey dean of the Romain College of Business
Carey keynote speaker at the Southwest Indiana Chamber’s 2019 Economic Outlook Luncheon.
Presented "Importance of Census Data to the Community," Evansville Chamber of Commerce Board
Faculty publication: Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management, Jeanette Maier-Lytle, instructor in accounting, Dr. Manfen Chen, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Kevin Celuch, professor of marketing, co-authored the article, "Engaging Students Through Activity Design: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective," which was published in the Journal of the Academy of Business Education.
Faculty publication: Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management, Jeanette Maier-Lytle, instructor in accounting, Dr. Manfen Chen, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Kevin Celuch, professor of marketing, co-authored the article, "Engaging Students Through Activity Design: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective," which was published in the Journal of the Academy of Business Education.
Dr. Sang Choe, professor of marketing, presented, "A New Investment Mecca: North Korea for Global Enterprises," at the MBAA International Conference 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.
Faculty publication: Dr. Sang Choe, professor of marketing. Choe's co-authored article, "A New Investment Mecca: North Korea for Global Enterprises," has been published in The Journal of International Business Research and Practice, Vol. 13 2019.
Cindi Clayton, instructor in business communication, co-presented, "The iGen at Work - an interpretation of data collected in the classroom regarding workplace values" at the Evansville Human Resources Association monthly meeting. The lecture was co-presented by USI senior management major and honors student Mollie Knight.
Cindi Clayton, instructor in business communication, was a panelist at the annual conference of the Organization for Communication, Language, and Gender, which was held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Engagement: Dr. Andrew Dill discusses his research into Ethics & Fraud: Part 1 (youtube)
Faculty publication: Dr. Andrew Dill, assistant professor of accounting. His research article, "Towards an Understanding of the Dark Triad, Ethical Fading, and Ethicality of Behavior," was published in Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research.
Faculty publication: Dr. Abbas Foroughi's article, "What is Block Chain - and Why Do I Need to Know About It" published in the latest issue of USI's illume magazine.
Faculty publication: Dr. Abbas Foroughi, professor of computer information systems, chair of management and information sciences department. Foroughi's paper was published in June, 2019, in the Journal of Management Science. Foroughi, A. (2019). Psycho-Social Aspects of Learning in MOOC Courses.Journal of Management Science, 1(2), 26-42.http://dx.doi.org/10.34038/jms.2019.06.001
Faculty presentation: Dr. Abbas Foroughi, professor of computer information systems and chair of management and information sciences department, presented the attached paper, “Supply Chain Workforce Training: Addressing the Digital Skills Gap”, at the 2019 Convention of the Decision Sciences Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the paper was published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, Foroughi chaired a session, “Digitization and Industry 4.0: Current State of Digitization and Industry 4.0” at the conference.
Dr. Sima Fortsch, assistant professor of management, received a $45,000 grant from the Virginia Commonwealth Transfusion Foundation to fund a scientific study of “time–and–motion” to assess the sustainability of the blood value chain by targeting the horizontally–integrated community blood centers in the Tri–State area of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The goal of the project is to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the blood value chain.
Faculty publications: Dr. Sima Fortsch, assistant professor of management. Fortsch's recent research publications include, "The value of inventory and the direction of the supply chain bullwhip effect," "Decreasing operational costs of non-profit community-based blood centres," and "A resilient donor arrival policy for blood."
Dr. Cristina Gilstrap, assistant professor of business communication, presented, "Organizational Sensegiving in Family-Centered Care: How NICU Nurses Help Families Make Sense of the NICU Experience," at the 69th Annual International Communication Association Conference.
Faculty publication: Drs. Cristina and Curt Gilstrap, assistant professors of business communication. Their co-authored article, “Stress in International Work: Stressors and Coping Strategies of RNGO International Directors,” has been accepted for publication in Communication Quarterly.
Faculty publication: Dr. Curt Gilstrap, assistant professor of business communication. Gilstrap had his research paper "Exploring m-leader affordances: team leaders and mobile technologies" published by Emerald Insight. The paper aims to examine how mobile technologies impact virtual team leaders and provides insight into how mobile technologies afford leaders varied capacity to accomplish their team work.
Faculty publication: Drs. Cristina and Curt Gilstrap, assistant professors of business communication. Their co-authored article, “Stress in International Work: Stressors and Coping Strategies of RNGO International Directors,” has been accepted for publication in Communication Quarterly.
Faculty publication: Dr. Xue Han, assistant professor of computer science. His co-authored publication titled, "Reproducing performance bug reports in server applications: The researchers’ experiences," was published in the Journal of Systems and Software
Zaman, T, S., Han X., & Yu, T. (2019). SCMiner: Localizing system-level concurrency faults from large system call traces. 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 515-526.
Faculty publication: Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management, Jeanette Maier-Lytle, instructor in accounting, Dr. Manfen Chen, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Kevin Celuch, professor of marketing, co-authored the article, "Engaging Students Through Activity Design: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective," which was published in the Journal of the Academy of Business Education.
Jeanette Maier-Lytle, instructor in accounting, featured in USI's illume magazine.
Mr. Tim Mahoney, instructor in economics, interviewed about the impact of the government shutdown (WEHT)
McGuire receives Lybrand Certificate of Merit
Dr. Mark McKnight, associate professor of accounting, Brian Routh, instructor in accounting, and Alyssa Moore, graduate assistant, co-authored "Disclosing Tax Consequences of a LIFO Repeal: Considerations Toward an Ethical Decision-Making Model Based on Potential Convergence of IFRS and U.S. GAAP", which was published by the Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research.
Faculty award: Dr. Chad Milewicz, receives the Dean's Award for Excellence in Service.
Faculty publication: Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting, and Dr. Jill Oeding, assistant professor of business law. Their article, "A Practical Guide to Interpreting Statutes for Business Professionals" was published in the Journal of Business Law and Ethics.
Faculty presentation: Dr. Jamie Seitz, assistant professor of accounting, presented "Exploring the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 Whistleblower Provisions and Intentions to Blow the Whistle on Financial Statement Fraud: An Empirical Examination of the Factors that Influence Intent Using the Theory of Planned Behavior" to the University of Mobile auditing class.
Faculty award: Dr. Jamie Seitz, assistant professor of accounting, has received a grant award for her proposal, "The Impact of Employee Loyalty on Potential Whistleblower's Intent to Externally Report Financial Statement Fraud."
Faculty presentation: Dr. Jamie Seitz, assistant professor of accounting, presented, "Exploring the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 Whistleblower Provisions and Intentions to Blow the Whistle on Financial Statement Fraud: An Empirical Examination of the Factors that Influence Intent Using the Theory of Planned Behavior" in a roundtable discussion at the Institute of Management Accountants conference.
Faculty presentation: Dr. Jamie Seitz, assistant professor of accounting, presented Would Your Employees Report Financial Fraud? at the Ethics Continuing Professional Education (CPE) event. The presentation was delivered to the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Evansville Chapter.
Faculty presentation: Dr. Daria Sevastianova, associate professor of economics, presented, "Introduction to the Economic Education Center at USI," at the Visionaries Breakfast at Old National Bank, sponsored by Purdue University, Indiana Council for Economic Education, and tri-state community leaders.
Visit highlights growing USI/Germany partnership
Dr. Daria Sevastianova, associate professor of economics, presented, "The Global Economy - Why It Matters to You," at The Randall T. Shepard Leadership and Law Academy.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis team records podcast with Economics Club.
Fall of the Wall Celebration interdisciplinary panel event
Faculty award: Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management and MBA Director, received the 2018 Best Paper Award in the Journal of Management History for his paper, "Social Enterprise in Antebellum America: The Case of Nashoba (1824-1829)." It was co-authored by Patrick Murphy, Milorad Novicevic, John Humphreys, Foster Roberts, & Artem Kornetskyy.
Faculty publication: Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management, Jeanette Maier-Lytle, instructor in accounting, Dr. Manfen Chen, associate professor of finance, and Dr. Kevin Celuch, professor of marketing, co-authored the article, "Engaging Students Through Activity Design: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective," which was published in the Journal of the Academy of Business Education.
Faculty presentation: Drs. Jack and Moriah Smothers presented "Applying the SCARF Model to Coaching Pedagogy" at the Lilly Conference on Innovative Strategies to Advance Learning in Asheville, NC.
Faculty publication: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science, authored a chapter published in one of the first standard textbooks on topics in parallel and distributed computing for undergraduates. Her chapter titled, “Scheduling in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems,” is published in *Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing: Enhancing the Undergraduate Curriculum: Performance, Concurrency, and Programming on Modern Platforms*. This is the first initiative taken by National Science Foundation (NSF) and IEEE technical committee on parallel processing (TCPP) toward standardizing text for undergraduate computer science curriculum on topics in parallel and distributed computing.
Faculty award: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science, received the award for the Best Student Organization Advisor of the Year at USI for being faculty advisor for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) club.
Faculty presentation: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science, presented, "Evaluating Student Engagement towards Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) Topics in Undergraduate Level Computer Science Curriculum," at the ACM Technical Symposium for the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2019).
Faculty presentation: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science. Srivastava's paper titled, "A Container-Based Framework to Facilitate Reproducibility in Employing Stochastic Process Algebra for Modeling Parallel Computing Systems" was presented at the 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Introduction to Coding for Elementary Teachers on USI campus
Faculty presentation: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science, presented, "Building a Pipeline of Future Coders" at the Evansville Information Executives Group (EIEG), which was attended by CIOs from local companies, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation officials, and USI colleagues.
Faculty publication: Dr. Srishti Srivastava's article, "Assessing the Integration of Parallel and Distributed Computing in Early Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum using Unplugged Activities," has been published in Proceedings of the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC).
Faculty presentation: Dr. Thomas Weber, assistant professor of management, presented Caring Organization and Innovation at the Academy of International Business - U.S. Southeast Annual Conference 2019.
Faculty award: Dr. Thomas Weber, assistant professor of management, received the Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of International Business - U.S. Southeast Annual Conference 2019.
Global Salon Series presents Ms. Virginia Weiler, instructor in marketing, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Marketing in the Global Space" January 29, 2019, at noon in RL0017.
Dr. Jinsuk Yang, assistant professor of finance, has been awarded a grant for his proposal, "Does Credit Rating Attenuate Corporate Earning Management?"
Faculty presentation: Dr. Jinsuk Yang, assistant professor of finance, presented Informativeness of Sell-Recommendation at the Academic Business Research (ABR) conference.
