The Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance has a new partnership with the Barron’s in Education Program from Dow Jones, which provides Muma College of Business students, faculty and staff complimentary 24/7 digital content from Barron’s. All Muma College of Business students, faculty, and staff can activate their free subscriptions for Barron's in Education here.

“The class is designed to help students understand not only the science behind beer making but also the business side of the industry, from branding and marketing to distribution and energy usage,” said Joe Askren of the Muma College of Business' School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Read more.

Researchers with the USF Muma College of Business continued to rank high on a nationwide survey of scholarly publications in 24 of the nation’s leading business journals. The rankings, compiled and released by the University of Texas-Dallas, included articles published in 2020 and showed USF business professors ranking No. 38 among public universities in the United States.

Overall, Muma College of Business researchers were No. 61 on the list of the top 100 colleges. Learn more.

Allowing the public to bet on elections — currently illegal in all states — could provide more accurate forecasts, writes Murad Antia, an instructor in the Muma College of Business' Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance in an op-ed piece published in the Tampa Bay Times recently. Not only should it be allowed, it should be encouraged by permitting all the brokerage houses to serve as conduits for betting. You should be able to sign into your brokerage account and place a bet, he writes.

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The event, scheduled from noon until 1 p.m. on Feb. 25, is free of charge, but guests must register. To register, click here.

While the program is highly technical, no prior technical skills or technical knowledge is required. For more information, click here.

All training for the spring of 2021 will be virtual. Only current students are eligible to participate. Candidates will attend an Information Security Boot Camp from 2-5 p.m. on Jan. 29, via Teams.

To sign up, click here. Selected students will complete one pre-session in February and four subsequent sessions. Students who successfully complete the program may be invited to interview for limited internship openings or a full-time position with ReliaQuest.

Triparna de Vreede, G.J. de Vreede and grad student Naif Alawi recently won the "best paper award" in the Collaboration Systems & Technology Track at the HICSS Conference. The paper is titled: "Achieving Success in Community Crowdsourcing: Lessons from the Field."

Eileen Rodriguez, regional director of the Florida Small Business Development Center at USF, was tapped to give predictions for the new year in a Tampa Bay Times story. To read the piece, click here.

Avijit Sengupta, instructor with the School of Information Systems and Management, was the runner-up for the best dissertation proposal award at the WITS 2020 Conference. The proposal is titled "Designing a Health Coach-Augmented Health System for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease."

Balaji Padmanabhan, professor in the School of Information Systems and Management, and Kaushal Chari, former associate dean of the Muma College of Business, contributed to a study that found systems using AI in matching medications to patients could cut prescription costs. Read more.

Lin Jiang and Dezhi Yin received the 2021 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement for an Academy of Management Journal paper published a year ago. Read more.

David DeLeon (‘14, Marketing), an intelligence officer in the Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, was named an Outstanding Young Alumni by the USF Alumni Association. DeLeon has given more than 400 hours to multiple charitable organizations and created a mentorship program for USF ROTC cadets.

Anthony “Tony” Morrison ('11, General Business Administration) is a senior social media producer for ABC’s Good Morning America and owner of Anthony Morrison Photography. He recently was named an Outstanding Young Alumni by the USF Alumni Association. Morrison is the recipient of two Daytime Emmy Awards and two Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Bob Wisler (’89, Management and Information Systems) was named chief information officer and director of the Management Information Center at Vincennes University in Indiana and serves as principal consultant of Wisler & Associates. Prior to that, Wisler served as chief information officer for more than 17 years at Northwood University in Michigan.

Shannon Ciesluk ('05, Accounting; '14 MBA) Accounting Circle board member, has been promoted to director in the Forensic & Financial Services Department of CBIZ in the Tampa office. She previously served as senior manager and has been with CBIZ for 16 years.

A long-standing tradition at the USF Alumni Association is to recognize annually outstanding alumni and community leaders, including one non-alum, who have made a significant contribution to the university and the community. For a list of awards click here. The deadline to make nominations has been extended to Jan. 29. To nominate someone, click here.

What better way to learn the complexities of business than to study the model of Dunder Mifflin. Join USF alumni in a fun filled and educational trivia night in which all the questions will be drawn from The Office. Test your knowledge of beet farming, paper industry regulations, and Jim's pranks. Grab your fellow Office fans and join us for an evening of fun at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 26. USF prizes will be awarded to the winning team and the most creative team name on the Zoom call. Participants can play Trivia with one device, but if you’re playing virtually with your team, you may want a second device for communicating, such as via text or FaceTime. To register, click here.