SportBusiness ranked USF's Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program No. 2 in the world in the 2025 Postgraduate Rankings. Read more→

Mike Sinclair, who advises the Rho Psi Chapter at USF St. Petersburg, was named National Chapter Advisor of the Year by Delta Sigma Pi. Read more→

Hospitality faculty member Seden Dogan shares how coffee became a national ritual in her native Turkey in this CNN Travel feature. Read more→

Florida SBDC at USF team members were honored for outstanding contributions at the 2025 Florida SBDC Network's Performance Excellence Awards. Read more→

Four new USF-themed murals designed by student-artists, including one by marketing student Eva Davis, can be found around the Tampa campus. Read more→

Twin brothers Blake and Brock Gratton will share their story about building a $100 million brand at the Sept. 26 Conversation with a Founder event in Sarasota-Manatee. Read more→

CEO and serial entrepreneur Roy Kirchner was named the 2025 Mentor of the Year for the USF Nault Center's Entrepreneurship Mentorship Program. Read more→

The Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance launched the Finance Talent Pathway program to prepare students for finance careers. Read more→

What a turn out! Thanks for helping us kick off the fall semester at our Week of Welcome events in Tampa and St. Petersburg. Watch the video→

Faculty Spotlights

Jacqueline Reck, the Robert Keith Professor in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, was reappointed to serve on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board through June 2032. 

Giti Javidi, professor in the School of Information Systems, received the “Best AMCIS 2025 Complete Paper Runner-Up" award at the Americas Conference on Information Systems.

Dipayan Biswas, the Frank Harvey Endowed Professor of Marketing, was featured on a Bloom episode discussing the effects of technology on our behavior.

Tengteng Ma, assistant professor in the School of Information Systems, received the Editorial Contribution Award and the Author Service Award from the Electronic Commerce Research Journal and the Meritorious Reviewer Award from INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Rouzbeh Behnia, assistant professor in the School of Information Systems, received the Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops.

Kerry Myers, associate professor of instruction in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy, contributed a WalletHub article about extended car warranties.

Alumni Updates

Nia’Symone Francisco (‘23, BS, Business Advertising, ‘24, MS, Marketing) is the marketing coordinator at Raymond James. She also published her second poetry collection called Black Dandelion. 

Andres Kofman (‘16, BS, Information Systems and Decision Sciences) is starting a new professional chapter as a salesforce senior consultant with Deloitte in its Zurich office. 

Adam Kupferman (‘22, BS, Business Administration, ‘23, MBA/MS, Sport and Entertainment Management) is starting a new position as an account executive for Elevate. 

Tyler Schulman (‘21, BS, Finance and Personal Financial Planning) has a new position as vice president, Global Wealth and Investment Management Credit Product Specialist at Bank of America. He is a former USF Muma College of Business 25 Under 25 Award honoree. 

Alvaro Ruiz (‘13, BS, Finance) joined AMD Development LLC as an associate on the development team. He is a former USF Muma College of Business 25 Under 25 Award honoree. 

Liz Wilhelm (‘10, BS, Management) was promoted to director of business performance at IPG.