MBI Program Makes Finals<\/strong> Dean Appointed<\/strong> DSI Student Consortium<\/strong> \u201cFocus On Excellence\u201d Awards<\/strong> All three of the College of Education winners are from the Department of Teaching and Learning. Yasar Bodur, associate professor, and Julie Maudlin, also an associate professor, both won the Award for Excellence in Contributions to Service. Associate Professor Scott Beck was awarded for Excellence in Contributions to Instruction. Traditionally, winners present talks associated with the area of the award. Bodur will speak on \u201cPersonal Benefits of Service.\u201d Maudlin\u2019s talk is titled \u201cYou Are What You Do: Service as Self-Knowledge.\u201d Beck will speak on \u201cFYE 1410 Global Citizens: Immigration, Migrants & Farming.\u201d<\/p>\n New Chairs Named<\/strong> Murali Medidi, Ph.D., was appointed the chair of the Computer Sciences Department. He joined Georgia Southern from Boise State University where he also served as chair of the Department of Computer Science. His principal research interests include wireless and sensor networking.<\/p>\n Frank \u201cSkip\u201d Gross, Ph.D., appointed chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, is an expert in antennas, smart antennas, electromagnetics and propagation. He earned his Ph.D. in EE from Ohio State University, and served for 18 years on the faculty of Florida State Georgia Southern professor, Brian L Vlcek, Ph.D., is the new chair of the Department of Named Among Top Ten Schools<\/strong> ICSA Special Citation<\/strong> Georgia Southern News Roundup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fall-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Molecular Biology Initiative (MBI) program was a finalist for a 2013 Georgia STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Award presented by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). The MBI project partners with teachers to bring hands-on, relevant content and technology into high schools. In the program, Graduate Teaching Assistants are trained by Georgia Southern faculty to go into area high schools to work with teachers and students to promote interest in the STEM fields.<\/p>\n
\nCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences<\/h4>\n
\nCurtis Ricker, Ph.D., was appointed the new Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS). Ricker, who assumed his new duties on Nov. 1, had been Interim Dean since July 2012. He has been at Georgia Southern since 1984, serving in various roles including CLASS Associate Dean for Faculty and Research. The new dean said he is especially honored to serve with the finest faculty in the University and professors who love their teaching, scholarship and creative activities.<\/p>\n
\nCollege of Business Administration<\/h4>\n
\nWillis Mwangola, a Ph.D. candidate in the Logistics\/Supply Chain Management program was invited to participate in the 31st annual Decision Sciences Institute\u2019s (DSI) Doctoral Student Consortium in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 16. The Doctoral Student Consortium is an invitation-only event in which participants are selected competitively based on the merit of their applications. Mwangola\u2019s research topic was titled “An empirical analysis of the vulnerability-efficacy tradeoff in Manufacturing Companies.”<\/p>\n
\nCollege of Education<\/h4>\n
\nThree College of Education faculty were awarded University-wide \u201cFocus on Excellence\u201d awards at Fall Convocation. The annual awards are given to two faculty in each of three categories: contributions to research\/creative scholarly activity, instruction and service.<\/p>\n
\nAllen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology<\/h4>\n
\nThe College of Engineering and Information Technology has four new department chairs. Mike Jackson, Ph.D., is serving as the chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management. The Macon, Ga., native spent the last 12 years on the faculty of the Civil Engineering and Construction Management Programs at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
\nUniversity in
\nTallahassee.<\/p>\n
\nMechanical Engineering. He joined the University in 1997, and has served as faculty advisor to ASME and Eagle Motorsports, leading student teams to impressive finishes in regional SAE competitions. All four chairs will also serve as faculty members.<\/p>\n
\nCollege of Health and Human Sciences<\/h4>\n
\nThe Department of Health and Kinesiology\u2019s online Master of Science degree in Sport Management has been recognized among the top ten by TheBestSchools.org. Sport Management is one of the fastest growing fields of study in the country. The Georgia Southern program can be completed in two years or once a student accumulates the required 36 credit hours. Students with this degree are prepared for such careers as athletics directors, coaches, league managers, agents and sports information, media or communications specialists.<\/p>\n
\nJiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health<\/h4>\n
\nBiostatistics professor Dr. Lili Yu and Ruth Whitworth, an IT expert and webmaster received a Special Citation from the President of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) in recognition of their contributions to the growth of the ICSA. Yu\u2019s area of research is mainly concentrated on survival analysis and Whitworth is a liaison between the College and IT Services and has worked with the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium as a webmaster and registrar since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"