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STEM Scholarships and Awards

The BBA in MIS is a STEM (Science, Technology, Math, Engineering) certified program and MIS students are eligible for special STEM scholarships and loans. To make it easy for you to find STEM specific opportunities, the department has created the following list of STEM specific grants and scholarships.

Note: Fox BBA in MIS majors are encouraged to contact Joseph Allegra at jallegra@temple.edu and ask for a document that provides additional details on each of the scholarships listed below.

STEM SCHOLARSHIPS
Name	Value
ASCEND/ING Scholarships	$1,000
Betty Stevens Frecknall Scholarships	$2,000
CORE Scholarship	Up to $4,000
Cummins. Inc	$2,500
HENAAC Student Leadership Awards	$500
Hispanic Scholarship Fund	$500 to $5,000
Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP)
Joseph James Morelli Scholarship	$500 to $2,500
McAfee
NSF Scholarships in STEM
Ray and Carmella Mellado	$1,000
Robert Yourzak Scholarship	Up to $2,000
Scholarship America Dream Award	$15,000
SciTech Scholarship	$3,000
STEM Major Scholarships for Undergraduate Students AFCEA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)	$2,500
STEM Major Scholarships for Undergraduate Students AFCEA Science, Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM) CYBERSECURITY	$5,000
Technology Scholarship	$1,000
VIP Women in Technology Scholarship	$2,500
Wayne V. Black Scholarship	$5,000

Temple AIS wins 2013 Student Chapter of the Year

January 8, 2014

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) has named Temple AIS Chapter of the Year, the highest honor any student chapter can receive. And it’s not just for the glory, either: with this distinction comes $1,000 in grant money, allocated for 2013 student initiatives.

Temple’s first place win follows three years of having been named runner-up as Outstanding Chapter, and reflects incredible dedication from its student members. A committee of faculty and students oversaw this year’s rigorous selection process, poring over annual reports to find the chapter with the most “exceptional, well-rounded, and organized program,” notes AIS.

We have continued our legacy of offering our members the best in professional development and networking opportunities. Each one of my twenty officers has been working like crazy to make sure we pull all of this off seamlessly. It is a pretty awesome group of students. We have the most intelligent and creative students in the Fox School.

Josh Wise, Chapter President

Founded in 1994, AIS is the world’s premier organization for academics specializing in Information Systems. The Chapter of the Year recipient must “lead the research, teaching, practice, and study of information systems worldwide,” says the organization.

As its 2013 title indicates, Temple AIS set benchmarks for other chapters, fostering an environment in which its members could thrive in the field of IS and as a cohesive community. Chapter President Joshua Wise attributes much of his chapter’s success to the group’s unique personality and culture of “entrepreneurial spirit” — comprising a buoyant blend of teamwork, fun, and (friendly) competition. “We like to challenge each other and find new ways of doing things,” notes Wise.

Among the chapter’s banner accomplishments and offerings in 2012-2013:

Top placement in every category entered at last year’s 2013 AIS Competition, hosted by Walmart in Bentonville, Arizona (Two 1st place finishes; one 2nd and one 3rd place ranking)
$5,000 in prize money invested in the Patriot Fund
Over 175 members, and a spike in meeting attendance (tracked via an attendance program coded by AIS officers)
Professional development and networking events with speakers from Comcast, NBC Universal, Cigna, Ernst and Young, AstraZeneca, and J.P. Morgan
Workshops every Friday and Saturday featuring technical training intensives
Well attended social events and community service initiatives, including $800 raised for CHOP and computer repair for non-profits

Current officers of AIS include:

Josh Wise, President
Scott Raff, COO
Cam Crossley, EVP of Marketing
Puja Shah, EVP of Professional Development
Dave Dupell, EVP of Finance

Cyberwar: New course for spring 2014!

December 28, 2013

“Good Bye DARPA” “Hello Google” ^[¹^]

This unique first ever course is being co-taught by Chris Kearns, a program director at Lockheed Martin currently working on a project for the DoD, and Marty Kearns, president of NetCentric Campaigns, an expert in online activism.

The course is offered in a hybrid online format and includes participation in a cyber-war conference featuring practitioners.

What are the lessons from the front lines of the cyber war and how do you apply the lessons to business strategy? The ongoing cyber battles which are only expected to increase impact business and consumers of all shapes and sizes and in multiple dimensions including security, innovation, defense, law, intellectual property, branding, brand value, infrastructure, social activism, and consumer protections. The cyber battles represent an obvious threat but they also represent sources of innovation and new business opportunity. The course will discuss methodologies and approaches of cyber war and how they can shape business models. The class will explore frameworks for finding powerful new ways to apply emerging lessons for organizing and marketing new business startups.

The real power of military history is not just for the recall of the who, when, and what of prior campaigns but the opportunity to glimpse into the mind of strategists, their rationale, and their successes and failures. The most important lessons of history are discovered and learned at enormous cost. The same dynamic is true in today’s cyber war. Legitimate cutting edge innovation and strategy is emerging from the front lines of the cyber-attacks and defense.

The course includes real-world case studies taken from news headlines. Students will apply unique frameworks to extract and identify the value of each strategy. Cases cover business, crime, activist organizing, politics, medicine, banking, communications, and consumers.

The hybrid online class includes 6 face to face sessions and 7 online sessions. The course is also the first to integrate with and feature a cyber-war conference. The conference will provide students with a unique opportunity to interact with cyber war strategists and practitioners.

To learn more and register for the course, please contact Joseph Allegra at jallegra@temple.edu.

Martin Kearns

President/CEO
Netcentric Campaigns

Chris Kearns

Program Director
Lockheed Martin

Martin Kearns is an innovator in the field of online networking. He pioneered integration of network-centric principals for civic organizing and advocacy work. He is President of Netcentric Campaigns, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the advocacy efforts of foundations and nonprofits by building networks of people to move change forward. He started the organization in 2000, to provide a professional suite of communication tools, trainings and services to help the environmental movement communicate more effectively. He is also the co-founder of a global network of activists who use cell phones for civic action and engagement.

He is a consultant on online networking strategy in advocacy campaigns. Clients include the Ford Foundation, Packard Foundation, Barr Foundation, Open Society Institute, Hewett Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, Brainerd Foundation, American Heart Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Greenpeace, and the Moore Foundation.

He speaks frequently at major conferences including the Personal Democracy Forum, Environment Grant Makers Association, Momentum, the Media Consortium, NTEN, River Rally, State Environmental Leadership Program, Harvard’s Berkman Center, Conservation Leadership Institute, Organizers Forum-West, True Spin Conference, Media Reform Conference, Rootscamp and the New Organizing Institute. He developed an extensive curriculum to train community organizers in online networking strategies in the US and internationally. He has written chapters in Rebooting America and Mobilize2.0, and his essays have been published in Huffington Post.

Previously, Kearns founded the Georgia River Network, a group dedicated to preserving Georgia’s rivers. He also spent three years working at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and served for two years as a Jesuit International Volunteer in Kingston, Jamaica teaching computers at St. George’s College and working with inner city youth. Kearns has a Bachelor of the Arts from LeMoyne College and a Masters in Environmental Science from Yale University.

As the Program Director for the Global Information Grid (GIG) Services Management – Operations (GSM-O) Program at Lockheed Martin, Mr. Kearns is responsible for managing activities related to Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) networks. The program provides various DoD branches and agencies with reliable and secure communications. Lockheed Martin’s IS&GS-Defense team provides programmatic, operational and engineering services as well as offer material support the network’s management. This global operation led by Mr. Kearns employs over 700 engineers and technicians across several partner companies and small businesses in Maryland, Illinois, Hawaii, Germany and Bahrain.

Previously, Mr. Kearns was the Program Director of Desktop Services for Lockheed Martin Corporation. In that role he managed the desktop portfolio including the strategy; the service desk; projects and services; operations and maintenance of collaboration and end user systems; and development activities related to Enterprise collaboration solutions.

Mr. Kearns also has held the role as the Operations Director for the Center for Leadership Excellence (CLE), where he was responsible for the operations, optimization and strategic development of the center’s activities. The CLE represents the Corporation’s commitment to life-long learning, to building the best professional workforce in the industry, and to assure that Lockheed Martin maintains a leadership role, across the globe, in the 21st century.

Mr. Kearns was also the Program Manager for the IS&GS Unity Development Program and led various other IT development projects. Mr. Kearns holds a master’s degree in Information Science from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Scranton. He serves on the Industrial Advisory Board to the Engineering Department at the University of Scranton.

[1] Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a renowned member of the pioneering hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow who was working at the DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, split for Silicon Valley to join his former DARPA boss, Regina Dugan. “Goodbye DARPA,” he tweeted. “Hello Google!” http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-geeks-on-the-frontlines#i.1y35frbnv3dqtq

Fox IT Advisory Board chooses winning BBA in MIS capstone project

December 23, 2013

Fox BBA in MIS students produced nine capstone projects in fall 2013. Under the guidance of industry mentors, the students designed and presented their creations for review to the Fox IT Advisory Board, an illustrious committee comprised of entrepreneurs and business leaders.

The roster of projects was particularly impressive this year, said professor and facilitator Munir Mandviwalla — a true testament to the quality of the BBA in MIS curriculum as well as the efficacy of each mentorship. After difficult deliberations, the board chose the project titled Groupstir as winner and recipient of an IBIT sponsored $500 prize.

“Groupstir,” the brainchild of students Brian Schwitters, Jonathan Abraham, Brandon Roberts, and Scott Pawlowski and mentored by Joseph Spagnoletti of Campbell’s Soup, is a direct-to-consumer promotion platform designed specifically for restaurants, which enables businesses to increase volume during off-peak hours and create a social, engaged experience for its customers.

Members of our group have worked in the restaurant industry, and we discussed various ways to increase customer volume during off-peak hours…We really enjoyed getting to work with our mentor Joe Spagnoletti, and it was most rewarding to witness his excitement of our vision.
Groupstir member: Jonathan Abraham.

For the 2013 Spring semester members of the Fox School of Business IT Advisory Board volunteered as ‘mentors’ to student project teams in the MIS 4596 Information Systems Integration class. The mentors’ experience with the student project teams was so successful and enjoyable that there were many volunteers for [this] semester.
Fox IT advisory board Chairman Bruce Fadem

After such a fruitful project collaboration this year, Fox MIS looks forward to what students can cook up in 2014! Below is a recap of the rest of the group projects, followed by a complete list of the mentors.

Stor.me 3D Printing Services

Danielle Heller, Damon Isaac, Jennifer O’Malley, Caitlin Carr; Mentored by Ben Hasan, SVP, Walmart
A 3D Printing Service site that allows consumers to make personalized objects via a user-friendly interface.

TUFTs (Temple University Food Trucks)

Sam Lee, Su Tan, Igor LEONOV; Mentored by Niraj Patel
A time-saving app that displays the menus and availability of every food truck on campus.

P3: Perfect Project Planner

Richard Somerville, Xiao Liu, Kenneth Ho, Sam Berkowitz; Mentored by Harold Hambrose, CEO, Electronic Ink
A flexible application tool that allows professors and students to manage tasks, optimize schedules, and submit documents.

Clear Construct

Dan Van Norton, Jeff Garvey, Joe Musumeci; Mentored by Michael Bradshaw, VP and CIO, Lockheed Martin
A smartphone-compatible project management application for architects that consolidates costs and manages their businesses.

PreZen

Caleb Harris, James Gitto, Eugene Kim, Andrew Nguyen, Christian Markel; Mentored by Craig Conway, Conway Technology Consulting Inc.
A computer program that analyzes body language, hand gestures, voice projection and more to evaluate, and improve the presentation abilities a company’s employees.

Quest

Nicholas Nendel, Jason Pan, Timmy Tran, Peter Yum, Joanna Zuo; Mentored by Andrea Anania
A peer-to-peer commerce network that allows students to offer various activities (or “quests”) that are securely reimbursed upon completion.

USecure

Maria Collette, Souraya Esreb, Adnette Kamugisha, Yevgeniy Kravets, Magen Sheeran; Mentored by Tim O’Rourke, Temple University
A mobile security application for student and faculty that’s integrated with campus police and Blue Light systems.

Fresh Choices

Derek Hamner, Zep Shemuale, Brett Bedevian, Eboni Strawder, Iyana Lester; Mentored by Jeff Hamilton, Pfizer
An application that works with Fresh Grocer to find students the best food deals that support healthy eating.

Mentors

Bruce Fadem – Chair; Retired CIO and VP of Wyeth
Andrea Anania – Retired VP and CIO of Cigna
Tim O’Rourke – VP and CIO, Temple University
Craig Conway – CTO
Jeff Hamilton – SVP, Pfizer
Michael Bradshaw – VP and CIO of Lockheed
Harold Hambrose – CEO, Electronic Ink
Ben Hasan – SVP, Walmart
Niraj Patel – Chief Strategy Officer, Elsag North America
Joseph Spagnoletti – VP and CIO, Campbell Soup Company

Additional Feedback

Mart Doyle – Professor, Temple University
David Schuff – Professor, Temple University
Joe Allegra – Senior Program Coordinator

Instructors

Munir Mandviwalla
Bruce Hohne

See all the pictures of the event on Flickr, click here!

Credits: Pictures, Joe Allegra

Cultural differences affect online lending, says new study by Professor Sunil Wattal

December 19, 2013

What factors drive us to lend money online to people in far and distant lands? That’s the question behind Professor Sunil Wattal’s latest study, which sought to determine whether cultural differences and/or geographic proximity affected someone’s inclination to lend money through an online platform. Findings suggest that we’re more likely to give to someone similar to us, even when donating through a website that seeks to neutralize cultural gaps.

To compile data, Wattal and his team analyzed more than three million transactions that took place between 2005 and 2010 via Kiva.org, an online investing platform that helps fund entrepreneurs in developing countries. Through a crowdfunding model, Kiva facilitates peer-to-peer lending from individuals (i.e. investors) to burgeoning businesses across the world.

While cultural differences have previously been studied as a source of friction in extended interactions, the goal of this study was to determine how said differences affected the act of selecting a transaction partner. The conclusion? Lenders do, in fact, prefer someone both culturally similar and geographically proximate to themselves.

Further research revealed that cultural differences are actually more distancing than physical geography—as one standard deviation in cultural differences resulted in 30 fewer lending acts, compared to one standard deviation of physical distance, which resulted in a decrease of only 0.23. Equally noteworthy was an apparent “substitution effect,” which showed that an increase in physical distance mitigated the effect of cultural difference—as if to suggest that we are more comfortable being cultural different from someone far away from us than physically near.

In addition to its findings, the study recommends to Kiva approaches to overcome this cultural barrier to lending, specifically with respect to their “reputation rating system” for microfinance intermediaries. The team also discusses the broader implications for pro-social lending, online crowd funding, and electronic markets.

Professor Wattal was recently appointed Associate Editor of the prestigious MIS Quarterly, which seeks to enhance and communicate knowledge concerning the development of IT-based services. Wattal’s study is forthcoming in MIS Quarterly.

Adjunct faculty

Full-Time Faculty

	Sezgin Ayabakan Associate Professor Management Information Systems 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 ayabakan at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/ayabakan
	Xue Bai Professor Statistics, Operations, and Data Science (primary) Management Information Systems (secondary) xue at temple.edu Biography
	Konstantin Bauman Associate Professor Management Information Systems 207G Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 kbauman at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/kbauman/
	Mart Doyle Associate Professor & Department Chair Management Information Systems 210 Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 mdoyle at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/mdoyle
	Keith William Gutierrez Assistant Professor of Practice Management Information Systems 206B Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 keith.gutierrez at temple.edu
	JaeHwuen Jung Associate Professor Management Information Systems 201E Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 jaejung at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/jaejung/
	Lauren Kerner Instructor Management Information Systems 1810 N. 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 lauren.kerner at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/kerner/
	Subodha Kumar Professor Statistics, Operations, and Data Science (primary) Management Information Systems (secondary) Alter Hall 530 1801 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 subodha at temple.edu https://sites.temple.edu/subodha/
	David Lanter Director, Master of Science – IT Auditing & Cyber Security Management Information Systems 209C Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 tue87168 at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/dlanter/
	Amy Lavin Associate Professor & Deputy Chair Management Information Systems Director, Master of Science – Digital Innovation in Marketing Temple University 210 Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 amyl at temple.edu
	Xueming Luo Professor Marketing (primary) Management Information Systems (secondary) Charles Gilliland Chair in Marketing 511 Alter Hall 1801 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 luoxm at temple.edu https://www.fox.temple.edu/mcm_people/xueming-luo/
	Laurel Miller Associate Professor Management Information Systems Executive Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology 207 Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 laurel.miller at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/lpfitzin
	Steven E. Sclarow Assistant Professor Management Information Systems 209F Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 sclarow at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/ssclarow/
	Jeremy Shafer Associate Professor Management Information Systems 209D Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 jeremy at TEMPLE.EDU https://community.mis.temple.edu/jshafer/
	Detmar W. Straub Professor and IBIT Research Fellow Management Information Systems Temple University 207 Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 straubdetmar at gmail.com https://community.mis.temple.edu/dstraub/
	Sunil Wattal Professor, MIS and Harold Schaefer Senior Fellow Management Information Systems 201 Speakman Hall 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 swattal at temple.edu https://community.mis.temple.edu/swattal/

Part-Time Faculty

	Caswell Anderson Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tul04442 at temple.edu
	William Bailey Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems william.bailey at temple.edu
	Orlando R. Barone Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems President Barone Associates orby114 at aol.com Biography
	Darin Bartholomew Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tuc09664 at temple.edu
	Larry Brandolph Vice President for Information Technology & Adjunct Professor Information Technology Auditing and Cyber Security Temple University larry.brandolph at temple.edu Biography
	Allen Chou Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tul54727 at temple.edu
	Larry Dignan Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Lawrence.dignan at temple.edu
	Victor Feinman Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems victor.feinman at temple.edu
	Mark Ferrari Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tup37471 at temple.edu
	Brian Green Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Systems Analyst UltraRAD brian.green at temple.edu
	Jaclyn Hansberry Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems jaclyn.hansberry at temple.edu Biography
	Miranda Joseph Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tuu53679 at temple.edu
	Wade Mackey Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Risk Advisor The Vanguard Group wade.mackey at temple.edu Biography
	David McGettigan Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Vice President Pfizer, Inc. David.McGettigan at pfizer.com Biography
	Noah Mercado Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems noahmercado at gmail.com
	Courtney Minich Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tuc29599 at temple.edu
	Thu Nguyen Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Assistant Vice President and Audit Manager Wells Fargo Thu.Nguyen at wellsfargo.com Biography
	Deval Shah Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Deval.Shah at temple.edu
	Austin Culmer Smith Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems 1810 North 13th Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 austin at temple.edu
	Christie Vazquez Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems tug31640 at temple.edu
	Patrick J. Wasson Adjunct Professor Management Information Systems Assistant Director of Application Development Temple University patrick.wasson at temple.edu Biography

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Professional Achievement Leaders

Yolandra Brown wins Temple Analytics Challenge!

December 2, 2013

Yolanda Brown, BBA in MIS student, earned first place in the Temple Analytics Challenge, a university wide competition which attracted 183 entries consisting of more than 400 students across seven different colleges. Read more…

Gregory Senko appointed Associate Director of ITACS

November 30, 2013

The Fox School’s Management Information Systems department is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory Senko, as Associate Director of the Information Technology Auditing and Cyber-security (ITACS) programs. Professor Senko is an acknowledged industry expert in cyber-security and will work with ITACS director Rich Flanagan to develop the cyber-security elements of the ITACS program.

Gregory Senko holds a BA degree in Political Science (International Relations) from Penn State and an MBA from the Fox School of Business. He has earned Prosci Organizational Change Management, PMP, SCRUM Master and CISSP Certifications.

While a consulting Partner at KPMG, as a Managing Director at BearingPoint Consulting and as a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, Professor Senko led large software development and ERP implementation projects in High Tech, Financial Services, Aerospace, Manufacturing and Healthcare. He led consulting practices that focused on Commercial Sales and Marketing Automation, Government CRM, ERP and Telecommunications market sectors.

As an adjunct professor in the IT Auditing and Cyber-Security (ITACS) program, Professor Senko teaches the Protection of Information Assets course.

	Eskinder Desta received 100 points for getting their portfolio approved in Spring 2026
	Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site Web Application Development
	Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site Web Application Development
	Pratt Etienne profile was updated
	James Wainaina profile was updated
	Pratt Etienne submitted their portfolio for approval
	Eskinder Desta profile was updated
	Dalip Dhillon profile was updated
	Derrick Huynh profile was updated
	Eskinder Desta submitted their portfolio for approval
	Kamilya Salikhova received 100 points for part-time non-major work experience
	Nalini Jain received 50 points for becoming an MIS Alumni
	Dalip Dhillon received 100 points for getting their portfolio approved in Spring 2026
	Derrick Huynh received 100 points for part-time non-major work experience