Sondra L. Barbour, FOX MIS alum and Executive Vice President, Information Systems & Global Solutions, Lockheed Martin was named to Fortune’s list of Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business worldwide for 2013. Barbour is also the recipient of the 2005 Fox information technology award for distinguished alumni and serves as Executive-in-Residence for the Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology.
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Professor Youngjin Yoo honored as ‘faculty of the game’
Professor Youngjin Yoo was honored as faculty of the game during the Temple Owls homecoming game on October 19, 2013 in front of about 25,000 fans.
Dr. Yoo is Irwin L. Gross Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Center for Design+Innovation. The recipient of more than $3.5 million dollars in research funding, Dr. Yoo has worked with internationally recognized companies including Samsung Electronics, American Greetings, Moen, NASA and Anderson Consulting. His research interests include digital innovation, design, and experiential computing. He was appointed senior editor of MISQ (the number 1 journal in MIS) in May 2013.
Professor Yoo’s most recent research includes a project with Ola Henfridsson titled “The Liminality of Trajectory Shifts in Institutional Entrepreneurship” which was just accepted for publication in Organization Science. The paper is a field study of 8 years of working with Saab in their attempts to integrate Android in their car.
David Dupell receives Society for Information Management’s Future Leader Award
David A. Dupell is the recipient of the 2014 Philadelphia Society for Information Management’s Future Leader Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement and the potential for leadership in the information systems field.
David is a senior majoring in Management Information Systems (and Accounting). He maintains a 3.85 grade point average and has earned numerous scholarships. David placed second in the international AIS student competition in the IT Risk case category. The competition was hosted by Walmart. He has interned at AmerisourceBergen and The Dow Chemical Company.
David volunteers for Temple University’s Income Tax Assistance program. He is also the VP of Finance for TUAIS, the Student Professional Organization for the Department of Management Information Systems.
The award was presented on October 1, 2013 at the Philadelphia SIM quarterly membership meeting. With over 3,000 members and 31 chapters throughout the US and Canada, SIM is the premier society for IT executives focused on networking, leadership, and education.
IT Career Fair on October 9, 2013
The Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) announces the Fox IT Career Fair on October 09, 2013, 11am-3pm, Alter Hall. Interact with top employers who are specifically interested in recruiting Fox MIS, ITACS, ITM, Digital Marketing, and ITIE students (majors and minors, grad and undergrad).
Merck, Lockheed Martin, AstraZeneca, Cigna, Dow, and QVC are attending as well as many others to recruit for full-time and internship positions. See http://ibit.temple.edu/careerfair for a complete list of employers. These employers are coming because they have made a commitment to your program and major, and to the Fox Department of Management Information Systems.
To participate in this career fair you will need:
- To be CSPD’d
- An approved eportfolio listed on the Fox MIS Community eportfolio site at: http://community.mis.temple.edu/eportfolios/
- Completed registration on http://ibit.temple.edu/careerfair/about/attendance-and-registration/. The deadline is October 2, 2013.
In order to have an approved eportfolio you must submit it to the above site for approval. Please be sure to read all of the points on the samples and resources page before submitting your eportfolio.
Each student that registers by the deadline will receive free special business cards to hand out to employers at the Fox IT Career Fair. These business cards will list your name, major, email address and will have a QR code to scan and easily access your eportfolio.
Digital badges recognize the professional achievements of MIS students
The Community platform introduces digital badges to recognize the professional achievements of FOX MIS students. To be awarded a badge, students will add a custom developed widget to their eportfolio. Once the widget is added, the student will automatically receive the appropriate badge based on their professional development points. The badge levels are:
- Grand Master (2000 plus): The pinnacle of professional readiness. Grand Master’s have extensive experience in engaging with industry, have demonstrated extensive leadership and communication skills, and are likely to take on leadership roles in the future.
- Master (1500 plus): The master of professional achievement. Master’s have gone above and beyond all the basic requirements and excelled in every category of professional development, career knowledge, networking and are expected to be stars in their careers.
- Candidate (1000 plus): The complete well-rounded student. Candidates have excelled in meeting all the department’s requirements for professional development. They are ready for the workplace!
- Apprentice (700 plus): Apprentices have started investing in their professional development early and are well on track to meet the department’s requirements for professional achievement.
The badges will go into full use at the start of the Fall 2013 term. To see examples, visit: http://community.mis.temple.edu/daviddupell/ or http://community.mis.temple.edu/joshwise/
Read the article by Peter Key of the Philadelphia Business Journal on the MIS Community platform!
Temple sweeps AIS international competition!
FOX MIS students (again) swept the 2nd Annual AIS International Competition receiving first, second or third place in the categories they entered. The competition was held as part of the 2013 Walmart IT Summit and AIS Student Chapter Conference, Bentonville, Arkansas, April 18-20, 2013. Read more…
MIS awards honor students, faculty, and staff
The Thirteenth Annual FOX IT awards on April 16, 2013 honored the following students, faculty and staff.
MIS STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Ryan Oliveira
MIS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given to graduating MIS students for academic excellence.
Iris Kapo
Elias Hessler
MIS RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in research.
Paul Pavlou
MIS FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Richard Flanagan
MIS TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
David Schuff
MIS ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
Dina Lichtman
MIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given annually to a MIS or IBIT administrative employee for outstanding performance.
Joseph Allegra
MIS ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Cynthia Smith
IBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Jennifer O’Malley
NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP
Rachael Jill Voluck
JOHN H. SHAIN SCHOLARSHIP
Paula L. Kozak
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AIS) AWARDS
AIS Outstanding Officer
Czarina Agravante
AIS Outstanding Member
Gabrielle Lopez
David Schuff wins Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
With 50 letters of support from students and faculty, Fox School of Business Associate Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) David Schuff was selected for this year’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from Temple University.
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Yoo, Wattal, and Zhang receive $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics
Professors Youngjin Yoo, Sunil Wattal, Bin Zhang, and Temple Biology Professor Rob Kulathinal were awarded a $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics. This is the third NSF grant the researchers have received, since a grant from French research foundation CIGREF. In total, the research has received about $675,000 in grant funding. The organizational genetics project is titled “The structure and dynamics of generative innovations: An organizational genetics approach.”
The project will focus on how organizational ecosystems are built and evolve over time. For example, success and failure of digital products, such as smartphones, is determined by the size and scope of various apps that are built by third-party developers in the ecosystem.
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New Certificate Programs in IT Auditing and Cyber-security
