2019 News

January

• Looking to double your salary? Try an M.B.A. (article on The Wall Street Journal)
• Meet graduate assistant Alyssa Moore '17, president of USI Speaking Eagles Toastmasters
• Getting to know Mr. Ray Farabaugh, member of the Romain College Board of Advisors
• Getting to know Teri Hollander Albin, member of the Romain College Board of Advisors
• 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.
• 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.
• USI students ready to prepare taxes through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program
• Alumni Update: Darin Hammers appointed as CEO of DYSIS Medical LTD. 

February

• Women in Economics Symposium - Register Online
• 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.
• USI VITA Tax Program underway (Channel 14 WFIE)
• 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.
• Hilliard Lyons CIO to present "Lessons Learned as a Portfolio Manager."
• Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting, speaks with WEHT's Brad Byrd about tax reform
• Faculty presentation: Mr. Timothy Bryan, instructor in accounting, presented to the Evansville Area Fundraising Council, discussing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The talk focused on changes in the standard deduction and itemized deductions and their potential impact on charities receiving donations. He also expanded into strategies to mitigate any negative impact.
• Meet Kelly Reisinger, SVP at Old National Bank, and member of Romain College's IT Alliance advisory board
• Students attend Women in Economics Symposium at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• The Romain College of Business launches Lessons Beyond the Classroom Speaker Series
• Engagement: Mr. Mark Nickel, CIO Hilliard Lyons, discusses his experience in the investment industry
• Hilliard Lyons CIO Mark Nickel: Take chances in your career
• 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. 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
• USI students, professors celebrate successful UNITE CubeSat deployment

March

• USI First Annual Hackathon
• 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.
• Getting to Know Celeste Tabor, a Young Professional on the Romain College Accounting Circle advisory board
• 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”.
• USI ACM chapter to host Hackathon for students and general public
• Congratulations to Romain College alumna Jamie Robey '11 M'15 for being recognized at the 18th annual Phenomenal Women of USI banquet. The program honors and celebrates women from all walks of life who have made contributions to diversity in the USI and the Evansville communities.
• First annual Hackathon a success
• Startup Weekend Evansville 8.0 to focus on community health care
• USI prepares for visit from Gen. Colin Powell, USA (Ret.)

April

• Author, blogger Erik Deckers to present on personal branding through social media
• Romain Auto Park professionals visit Dr. Marie Bussing's economics classes
• More than 40 students inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society; USI president Dr. Ronald S. Rochon inducted as chapter honoree
• USI alumni return to campus to share their experiences abroad, promote book
• 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.
• Nontraditional students are truly USI role models - meet management major Dana Jones
• USI Romain College of Business receives dual re-accreditation from AACSB
• Congratulations to Romain College alumna Aleisha Jones '17 M'19 for being recognized at the 18th annual Phenomenal Women of USI banquet. The program honors and celebrates women from all walks of life who have made contributions to diversity in the USI and the Evansville communities.
• 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).
• Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity collecting toys for local kids
• 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.
• Health-centered Startup Weekend Evansville awards prizes to winning teams
• 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.
• Accountants in the Classroom
• Romain College of Business 2019 Awards
• 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.
• Blogger Deckers talks to job seekers about the power of personal branding and networking
• Alumni-in-Residence speakers discuss life in the foreign service and career opportunities
• 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.
• General Colin Powell offers lessons on failure, leadership
• USI to hold Romain College of Business undergraduate commencement on Saturday, April 27
• USI Romain College of Business receives dual re-accreditation from AACSB
• USI business fraternity collecting toys for local kids
• Health-centered Startup Weekend Evansville awards prizes to winning teams

May

• Meet USI Romain College of Business 2019 Distinguished Graduate Taylor Colbert
• USI student recipient of German language scholarship
• Visit highlights growing USI/Germany partnership
• Dr. Jinsuk Yang, assistant professor of finance, has been awarded a grant for his proposal, "Does Credit Rating Attenuate Corporate Earning Management?"
• USI ranks in top five for CMA exam success
• APS Club receives IMA Gold Certificate of Excellence designation
• 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).
• 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 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."
• 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.
• 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.
• USI names Carey dean of the Romain College of Business
• McGuire receives Lybrand Certificate of Merit
• Visit highlights growing USI/Germany partnership
• UNITE CubeSat reaches 100 days in orbit, a milestone for student-build satellites
• Romain College of Business to offer certificates in Cybersecurity, Data Analytics for Business beginning fall 2019

June

• USI team competes in final four in IMA national accounting competition for twelfth time
• Engagement: Dr. Andrew Dill discusses his research into Ethics & Fraud: Part 1 (youtube)
• Interim dean Dr. Brian McGuire and son Andrew '17 M'19 featured in Strategic Finance magazine as second and third generation IMA members
• Technology Commercialization Academy participants “sprinting” toward startups
• 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
• 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. 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.

July/August

• Romain College Advising Center heads into its fifth year
• Introduction to Coding for Elementary Teachers on USI campus
• Zack Snyder: The Programmer behind the University's UNITE CubeSat satellite
• Dr. Jason Fertig, associate professor of management, quoted in USA Today about social media and technology use and overuse
• 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.
• 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.
• Mr. Brian Routh, instructor in accounting, co-authored the article, "Bank Failures: A Study of Georgia Banks," which has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Finance Vol. 19(5) 2019.
• 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
• Students to present final Technology Commercialization Academy pitches Thursday, July 25th
• Friendship State Bank Names LeeAnn Boggs as new director 
• Blake Frazier owns and operates Flyboy LLC 
• Jessica Schwarz departs for Peace Corps service in Ukraine 
• Berry Global appoints Bill Norman President of Consumer Packaging- North America Division 

September

• 2019 marks the 8th year of the summer program in Germany
• Getting to Know Reid Edwards, chair of the Romain College Student Advisory Board
• Meet USI Speaking Eagles Toastmasters president Austin Graber
• Meet USI Marketing Club co-president Elizabeth Seng
• 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.
• Meet Braden Taylor, president of Beta Alpha Psi
• Honey+Moon Coffee Co co-founder talks to Marketing class about small business ownership
• Faculty presentation: Mr. Brian Routh, instructor in accounting, was a speaker at the Course Hero Education Summit 2019.
• Everyone loves Swag!
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis team records podcast with Economics Club
• 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.
• USI co-hosts annual Economics Camp for high school teachers
• USI to honor achievements, present awards at annual Faculty Convocation
• USI graduates, faculty member under 40 recognized as emerging leaders
• USI to host delegation from UAS Osnabrück
• Brian Stahl earns promotion from The Peoples Bank 
• Jarrard, Nowell & Russell promotes Justine Lovell

October

• Evansville-based nonprofit brings marketing strategy discussion
• 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 (page 50)
• Alumni Update: Tyson Wagler Named to German American Bancorp Inc. 
• 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.
• Alex Stein '18, management, drafted by NBA G League team
• 'It's OK not to be OK': USI student-athlete Darin Lawrence, computer science, shines light on mental health awareness (Courier & Press)
• Business alumni pay it forward visiting UNIV101 classes
• Business alumna talks to Accounting 201 class
• 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.

November

• Rob Wedding '84, partner at BKD CPAs & Advisors, recognized as 2019 USI Distinguished Accountant
• 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.
• 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.
• Fall of the Wall Celebration interdisciplinary panel event
• 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 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 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.
• 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. Thomas Weber, assistant professor of management, presented Caring Organization and Innovation at the Academy of International Business - U.S. Southeast Annual Conference 2019. 
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Jinsuk Yang, assistant professor of finance, presented Informativeness of Sell-Recommendation at the Academic Business Research (ABR) conference. 
• 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.
• Senior accounting and finance major part of winning team at BGS 2019 Global Leadership Summit 

December

• 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.
• Beta Alpha Psi inducts seven new members.
• Accounting & Professional Services (APS) Club members attend IMA Leadership Conference.
• Accountants in the Classroom
• Top Student Participants for Fall 2019 Semester Announced
• Computer science senior project presentations
• Enjoy our "A Semester in Photos" of Fall 2019 at the Romain College
• Two students represent Romain College at leadership summit; one part of winning case team
• #USIGrad story: Starting from the bottom