Professor Min-Seok Pang was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Dr. Pang joined the department in in 2014 and has since built an outstanding record of scholarship around the role of information technology in government. He also is a highly-rated instructor in the BBA in MIS, the MBA program, and the Ph.D. program, teaching courses in the strategic management of information technology and data science.
Emily Repshas has been promoted to Assistant Director of MIS. Repshas joined the MIS Department in 2016. Her contributions to the department include managing the MIS PRO program, the PRO store, and expanding the department’s social media presence. In her new role, she will be adding marketing and communications to her responsibilities, including our undergraduate and master’s programs.
Professor Amy Lavin has been appointed a Dean’s Teaching Fellow for 2018. Professor Lavin has been an innovator in the classroom. She is the Academic Director of the MS in Digital Innovation in Marketing (MS-DIM). In 2017, Professor Lavin was named the MS-DIM Faculty Member of the Program, an award given based on student feedback. She has presented at conferences such as the Americas Conference on Information Systems and the Higher Education Social Media Strategies Summit.
Professor David Schuff was named the Fox School of Business Executive Doctorate in Business Administration 2018 Faculty of the Year. The award recognizes his “significant contribution to the academic and intellectual growth of Executive DBA students,” according to Academic Director and Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management Susan Mudambi.

Emily Schucker ’17 thought she’d major in biology when she began studying at Temple University. Frank Tkachenko ’18 planned to reinvent himself. Both found their paths thanks to the Fox School of Business.

From streamlining the dining experience to changing the way families care for ailing loved ones, the Spring MIS Capstone Showcase demonstrated the transformative impact of technology. On April 24th, 2018, nine teams of seniors from three classes, as selected by their professors, presented their final projects. These projects were the culmination of a semester (and four years) of hard work, which involved everything from creating a business plan to designing a functional prototype.
After years of hard work and study, MIS seniors always have a lot to show off at the Fox School of Business Management Information Systems Capstone Project Showcase. The most recent Showcase, held at the end of April, was no exception: The 17 teams of seniors that gathered to present their final projects unveiled everything from a medical app designed to help doctors track elderly patients’ health regimens to a personalized news aggregation service to an improved search function on Temple’s course database.
Receiving notable recognition for a research paper is not what senior Eric Koeck originally set out to do.
The Association for Information Systems honored Atish Banerjea, Chief Information Officer, Facebook, and Fox School ’91 alum, with the inaugural Association for Information Systems Leadership Excellence Award on December 12, 2016 at the 37th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Banerjea also delivered the keynote address at the conference while accepting the award.
Ciara Murphy doesn’t give up easily — especially when it comes to helping others.



