Temple MIS has more than 7,500 Alumni across a diverse set of industries. They demonstrate leadership in every facet of Management Information Systems including a varied and growing array of related professions, reinforcing the value of a professional MIS education at Temple and Fox.

We invite you to reconnect with us and engage with your fellow Alumni. The MIS Department and Alumni Advisory Board host a variety of events throughout each year. Please be sure to update your information here to ensure you are receiving invitations to these events and other notifications from the Board.

Some of the most important ways to stay connected to Temple MIS are through our MIS Community website and our MIS Department’s LinkedIn page. Be sure to edit your LinkedIn “Education” and add our LinkedIn Fox School of Business – MIS “school” page too.

We encourage all of our Alumni to get involved by sharing news items, promotions and roles, connecting with our MIS Department for job posting and attending MIS Department & Alumni events. (misalumni-faculty@temple.edu)

Each year, the Management Information Systems Department recognizes the accomplishments of students, faculty, and administrators.

 

• Award recipients
  • 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
• Award criteria
  • Student Leadership
  • Faculty Leadership
  • Administrative Leadership
  • Professional and Academic Achievement
  • MIS Researcher of the Year
  • Faculty Teaching Award (full-time)
  • Faculty Teaching Award (part-time)
  • AIS Officer of the Year Award
  • AIS Member of the Year Award

 

 

 

Award recipients

2026

• Student Leadership Award: Faiza Ahmed
• Faculty Leadership Award: Sezgin Ayabakan
• Administrative Leadership Award: Crystal M. Harold
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Sarah Maher, Nadia Bodnari
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Wei Zhang, Erez Yarden
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Chidinma Nze, Sloka Samanthula
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Vraj Patel, Mira Rabinovich
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Sezgin Ayabakan
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): David Lanter
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Courtney Minich
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Laura Carpenter
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Kamilya Salikhova

2025

• Student Leadership Award: Deepya Paramata
• Faculty Leadership Award: Konstantin Bauman
• Administrative Leadership Award: Claudia Bereshnyi
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Kelly Liu, Alexandra McDonnell
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Alison Park (Spring and Fall)
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Tina Nguyen, Padin Stein
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Sloka Samanthula, Christopher Tacuri Sanmartin
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Sunil Wattal
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Konstantin Bauman
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): David McGettigan
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Alison Park
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Yulu Yang

2024

• Student Leadership Award: Angel Cherian
• Faculty Leadership Award: David Lanter
• Administrative Leadership Award: Tom Carney
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Stela Profka, Elizabeth Nguyen
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Adam Foster-Baird, Ethan Chheda
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Cammy Nguyen, Carly Krieger
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Sayandeep Das, Neel Patel
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Aleksi Aaltonen
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Marie-Christine Martin
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Brian Green
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Cole Roberts
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Tyler Allen

2023

• Student Leadership Award: Anna Boykis
• Faculty Leadership Award: Marie-Christine Martin
• Administrative Leadership Award: Charles Allen
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Vattey Meas, Stefan Tschudi
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Maggie Luong, Kelly Deng
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Hojoon Lee, Kelly Liu
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Melissa Giang, Cammy Nguyen
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Jason Thatcher
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Aleksi Aaltonen
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Liang Yao
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Quinten Powers
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Rhenece Andrew

2022

• Student Leadership Award: Connor McShane
• Faculty Leadership Award: Jason Thatcher
• Administrative Leadership Award: Lori Roseman
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Jany Huang, Tanner Valentine
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Lauren Quinn, Vattey Meas
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Rhea Kumar, Alexander McShane
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Angel Cherian, Jerimiah Arbertha
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Jason Thatcher
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Amy Lavin
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Brian Green
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Abbey Helterbran
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Nicholas Bortz

2021

• Student Leadership Award: Sean Boyer
• Faculty Leadership Award: Munir Mandviwalla
• Administrative Leadership Award: Taylor Tropea
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Kyra Lloyd (Spring and Fall)
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Carly Krzywicki, Logan Piatetsky
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Safaniya Paul, Abigail Helterbran
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Abigail Helterbran, Ajay Oomman
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Jason Thatcher
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Amy Lavin
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Liang Yao
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Kevin Publicover
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Katherine Lobdell

2020

• Student Leadership Award: Nhi Nguyen
• Faculty Leadership Award: Steven Sclarow
• Administrative Leadership Award: Dina Maslennikova
• Administrative Achievement Award: Joseph Allegra
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Nhi Nguyen, Quyen Le
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Madison Collins, Andrew Smuszkiewicz
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Tammy Tsoi, Tigue Devine
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Quynh Nguyen, Oviya Soundararajan
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Detmar Straub
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Min-Seok Pang
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Liang Yao
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Madison Collins
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Jessica Ladzenski

2019

• Student Leadership Award: Cara Evans
• Faculty Leadership Award: Jeremy Shafer
• Administrative Leadership Award: Amanda Barber
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Andrea Behler, Cara Evans
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Michelle Purnama, Pham Xuan Bach Hoang
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Sophia Alvarez, Madison Collins
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Kevin Dang, Sean Boyer
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Jung Jaehwuen
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Patrick J. Wasson
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Justin Kish
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Sean Boyer

2018

• Student Leadership Award: Rebecca Jackson
• Faculty Leadership Award: Mart Doyle
• Administrative Leadership Award: Rachel Carr
• Administrative Achievement Award: Emily Repshas
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Grisselle Rivera, Nina Sjostrom
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Rebecca Jackson, Cara Evans
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Linh Dang, Sarah Labbad
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Cong Ngo, Joshua Kim
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Jeremy Shafer
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Leonard Nelson
• AIS Officer of the Year Award: Michael Doyle
• AIS Member of the Year Award: Jacqueline Henry

2017

• Student Leadership Award: Eric Koeck
• Faculty Leadership Award: Amy Lavin
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Philip Tocci, Alexandra Iacovetti
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Matt Oberst, Joshua Grover
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Josh Veloso, Kyle Haberman
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Shray Patel, Cara Evans
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): Laurel Miller
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Anthony Messina

2016

• Student Leadership Award: Ciara Murphy
• Faculty Leadership Award: Jeremy Shafer
• Administrative Leadership Award: Jackie Van Orden
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Senior): Artemid Leskaj, Julia Knable
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Junior): Samantha Talarico, David Yastremsky
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Sophomore): Matt Oberst, Ari Abramson
• Professional and Academic Achievement Award (Freshman): Drew Holt, Kellen O’Connor
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Brad Greenwood
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): David Schuff
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Wade Mackey

2015

• Student Leadership Award: Peter Hwang
• Faculty Leadership Award: James Moustafellos
• Administrative Leadership Award: Debbie Riley
• MIS Student Achievement Award: Jordan Szenicer, Nishith Jani
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): David Schuff
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Amy Lavin
• Administrative Achievement Award: Jillian Reilly

2014

• Student Leadership Award: Joshua Wise
• Faculty Leadership Award: Mart Doyle
• Administrative Leadership Award: Karen Murtha
• MIS Student Achievement Award: Jennifer O’Malley, Andrew Roche
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): David Schuff
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Dina Lichtman

2013

• Student Leadership Award: Ryan Oliveira
• Faculty Leadership Award: Richard Flanagan
• Administrative Leadership Award: Cynthia Smith
• MIS Student Achievement Award: Iris Kapo, Elias Hessler
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award (full-time): David Schuff
• Faculty Teaching Award (part-time): Dina Lichtman
• Administrative Achievement Award: Joseph Allegra

2012

• Student Leadership Award: Michelle Dy-Reyes
• Faculty Leadership Award: Carey O’Donnell Jr.
• Administrative Leadership Award: Brandon Lausch, Director, Fox School of Business
• MIS Student Achievement Award: Saraya Hyder, Adam Alalouf
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Paul Pavlou
• Faculty Teaching Award: Steven L. Johnson
• Administrative Achievement Award: Manoj Chacko

2011

• Student Leadership Award: Brian Connelly
• Faculty Leadership Award: Steven Johnson
• Administrative Leadership Award: Rachel Tomlinson, Director, Fox School of Business
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Youngjin Yoo
• Faculty Teaching Award: David Schuff
• Administrative achievement Award: Manoj Chacko

2010

• Student Leadership Award: Tom Steigerwald
• Faculty Leadership Award: David Schuff
• Administrative Leadership Award: Sheri Stahler, Associate Vice President, Computer Services
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Sunil Wattal
• Faculty Teaching Award: David Schuff
• Administrative achievement Award: Joseph Allegra

2009

• Student Leadership Award: Brian McMahon
• Faculty Leadership Award: Mart Doyle
• Administrative Leadership Award: Matthew Dampf, IT Coordinator
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Youngjin Yoo
• Faculty Teaching Award: David Schuff

2008

• Faculty Leadership Award: Cindy Joy Marselis
• Administrative Leadership Award: John P. DeAngelo, Associate Dean
• MIS Researcher of the Year: Youngjin Yoo
• Faculty Teaching Award: David Schuff

2007

• Student Leadership Award: Michael Luckenbill, BBA MIS
• Faculty Leadership Award: Cindy Joy Marselis, Instructor
• Administrative Leadership Award: Debbie Campbell, Assistant Dean

2006

• Student Leadership Award: Urvi Patel, BBA MIS, January 2007
• Faculty Leadership Award: Mart Doyle, Instructor
• Administrative Leadership Award: Corinne Snell, Director, CSPD
• Faculty Teaching Award: Mart Doyle and David Schuff

2005

• Student Leadership Award: Muhammad Shihab, MS MIS
• Faculty Leadership Award: Ozgur Turetken, Assistant Professor
• Administrative Leadership Award: Deborah Riley, Fox School Dean’s Office
• Full-Time Teacher of the Semester Award: David Schuff and Paul Weinberg
• Part-Time Teacher of the Semester Award: Arnold Kurtz and Mart Doyle

2004

• Student Leadership Award: Marcus Hayes, BBA MIS
• Faculty Leadership Award: Paul Weinberg, Professor, Executive-in-Residence, and Senior Fellow
• Administrative Leadership Award: Robert Green Hall V, IT Coordinator
• Full-Time Teacher of the Semester Award: David Schuff
• Part-Time Teacher of the Semester Award: Steve Salvia and Arnold Kurtz

2003

• Student Leadership Award: John D’Arcy, PhD MIS
• Faculty Leadership Award: Heinz Klein, Associate Professor of MIS
• Administrative Leadership Award: Laurel Miller, Associate Director
• Full-Time Teacher of the Semester Award: Anat Hovav and Paul Weinberg
• Part-Time Teacher of the Semester Award: Jonathan Goldstein and Steve Salvia

2002

• Student Leadership Award: David Abraham and Hetal Pawani
• Faculty Leadership Award: David Schuff, Assistant Professor of MIS
• Administrative Leadership Award: Peter Soontharothai, Network Administrator

2001

• Student Leadership Award: Ying Liang and Zeena Panackal
• Faculty Leadership Award: Ravi Patnayakuni, Assistant Professor of MIS
• Administrative Leadership Award: Laurel Miller, Administrative Assistant
• Vikram Singh, Director of Computer Services, Fox School of Business and Management

Award criteria

 

Student Leadership

Awarded annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department

Eligibility: All full time undergraduate MIS students, all full and part-time MIS graduate students.

Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.

Faculty Leadership

Given annually to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.

Eligibility: Full and part-time faculty who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term.

Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.

Administrative Leadership

This award is given annually to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.

Eligibility: Full time administrators of the Fox School of Business and Management who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term. Administrators of the MIS department are not eligible for this award. (Updated 3/2017)

Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.

Award selection process

A committee selects the above three award recipients. The committee is chaired by the MIS awards coordinator and includes at least one faculty, administrative, current student, and alumni representative and the department chair. Normally, the committee is comprised of previous recipients of the award.

Professional and Academic Achievement Award

Professional achievement is professional development, career knowledge, leadership, networking, and readiness for the workplace. Professional achievement is different from academic achievement, which is measured by excellence in the classroom and grades. Both are important. This award is designed to recognize MIS students who are excelling in both academics and professional achievement on a per-term basis. 

Eligibility: All full-time undergraduate MIS students with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher.

Criteria: Each eligible student will receive a score based on their GPA and Professional Achievement Points. The freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior with the highest score in a given term will receive the award. In the event of a tie, the MIS Awards Coordinator will call for an ad-hoc committee to determine the winner(s).

The scores for eligible students are calculated twice a year. The first calculation is for the spring/summer term award and the second calculation is for the fall term award. Each winner will receive a certificate to recognize their work in the Professional Achievement Program.

The score is calculated per term by taking the sum of the GPA Percentage and Points Percentage for students during that particular term.

GPA Percentage = [(Term GPA / 4.0)) * 100]
Points Percentage = [(Term Points / 600) * 100]
Score = [GPA Percentage] + [Points Percentage]

Notes about the calculation:

• 600 is the theoretical maximum number of Professional Achievement Points earnable in one term.
• Point and in-term GPA values are expressed as percentages to give each an equal weight in the calculation.
• Students are categorized as Freshmen/Sophomore/Junior/Senior as follows:
  • Freshman: 0 to 29 Credits
  • Sophomore: 30 to 59 Credits
  • Junior: 60 to 89 Credits
  • Senior: 90 to 119+ Credits

MIS Researcher of the Year

Recognizes outstanding MIS-focused scholarly research publications appearing in print in the prior year. The primary award criteria is a scoring system for publication of high quality MIS-centric peer-reviewed journal articles. (Criteria updated 2/2010)

Eligibility: Full-time faculty of Temple University

Guidelines

• Published articles qualify only if Temple University is identified as the author’s affiliated organization.
• Published articles qualify only if they have an MIS focus. If the MIS focus of an article is not obvious then the awards coordinator will rely on the author for clarification.
• Only publications with a publication date of the previous calendar year are considered for point scoring (e.g., for the 2010 award, publications in 2009 are considered); the publication date is determined by when the article is in print (e.g., the year used in scholarly citations).
• Articles qualify for Tier I as long as they meet all other criteria and the journal is a Fox A-list publication.
• If one or more faculty published a qualifying Tier I journal article, only those faculty are eligible for the award. If only one faculty member published a qualifying Tier I journal article, they are the award winner, regardless of the point totals of other faculty members. When two or more faculty have qualifying Tier I journal articles, award determination will proceed based on point totals among only those faculty.

Scoring

• Qualifying articles published in MISQ or ISR receive 6 points.
• Qualifying articles published in all other Tier I publications receive 5 points.
• Qualifying articles published in a non-Tier I publication appearing on the Fox target journal list receive 3 points.
• Qualifying articles published in any other refereed journal receive 1 point.

Tie-Breaker

If there is tie in point values from qualifying journal articles, the awards coordinator will form an ad-hoc committee to identify the winner. This committee is instructed to consider the following additional factors in selecting the award winner: other scholarly output (e.g., books, conference proceedings, presentations), scholarly impact of eligible work, best paper awards, scholarly grant applications and awards, and any other activity that promotes the research profile of the Fox MIS Department.

Faculty Teaching Award (full-time)

Recognizes outstanding teaching in the prior year (e.g., the award given at the 2021 ceremony is for courses taught during the 2020 calendar year). (Criteria updated 3/2021)

Eligibility

Full-time faculty of the Management Information Systems department who taught two or more courses in the previous calendar year (summer courses included) and met the departmental teaching rigor requirement.

Selection Process

1. MIS Awards Coordinator reviews teaching evaluation data and for each eligible full-time faculty member calculates the average of four questions on the student feedback forms for all courses taught by them in the previous calendar year (including spring, summer, and fall semesters):
   • Q13 – The instructor promoted a classroom atmosphere in which I felt free to ask questions. (Before Fall 2020: Q5 – The instructor promoted a classroom atmosphere in which I felt free to ask questions.)
   • Q12 – The feedback I received in this class helped improve my learning. (Before Fall 2020: Q6 – The instructor provided useful feedback about exams, projects, and assignments.)
   • Q3 – Overall, the instructor was effective in helping me learn the material in this course. (Before Fall 2020: Q8 – The instructor taught this course well.)
   • Q4 – Overall, I learned a great deal from this course. (Before Fall 2020: Q11 – I learned a great deal in this course.)

   The obtained score is used to select a short list of top five candidates.

2. Student nominations are collected by survey sent to all MIS majors through two questions:
   • Which instructor was the most impactful for you among the MIS courses you took over the past year?
   • In what ways has this instructor made a difference to you.

3. The collected information is considered by the MIS Teaching Awards Committee to determine the winner. The criteria for the selection process includes:
   • Innovative teaching, including new curriculum development, technology use, novel curriculum and changes to model or delivery method.
   • The types of courses and course load of each faculty member (e.g., class size, difficulty and level of classes).
   • Impressive teaching evaluation scores.
   • Positive comments from the student feedback forms.
   • Supporting rationale provided with students’ nominations.
   • MIS Awards Coordinator may also request selected instructors to provide any additional information that can potentially support their case.

Faculty Teaching Award (part-time)

Recognizes outstanding teaching in the prior year (e.g., the award given at the 2020 ceremony is for courses taught during the 2019 calendar year). (Criteria updated 1/2020)

Eligibility

Part-time faculty of the Management Information Systems department who taught two or more courses in the previous calendar year (summer courses included) and met the departmental teaching rigor requirement.

Selection Process

Same process as for the full-time Faculty Teaching Award mentioned above.

AIS Officer of the Year Award

This award is given annually to high performing AIS Officers.

Award selection process

• The MIS department chair and the AIS faculty advisor review the annual pre-report provided by AIS. They identify officers that had executed their duties well as described there. The chair and the advisor also considered which officers have shown initiative and leadership. The advisor then provides two nominations to the MIS Awards committee, with a justification for each.
• The nominations then discussed and voted upon by a committee led by the MIS Awards coordinator. The committee is comprised of student, alumni, faculty, administrative, and administration representatives including multiple past Fox IT Award winners, and the department chair.

AIS Member of the Year Award

This award is given annually to high performing students who have been active in AIS.

Award selection process

• The AIS Faculty advisor reviews the attendance data from last semester. AIS members with strong activity in multiple areas (Speaker Series, Professional Development Workshops, TDAP Workshops, Community Service and/or Social events) are highlighted.
• The AIS officers reviews the member list provided by the advisor and makes one primary nomination, and at least one alternate nomination.
• The nominations are discussed and voted upon by a committee led by the MIS Awards coordinator. The committee is comprised of student, alumni, faculty, administrative, and administration representatives including multiple past Fox IT Award winners, and the department chair.