23
Oct
Graduate Students Gain Networking Experience
The UTSA College of Business Office of Graduate Studies sponsored 18 graduate students who attended two virtual professional development and career conferences this fall. Five students participated in the National Black MBA Association conference in September. They were Andres Cuellar, Winona Johnson, Khiry Milton, Gabriella Villanueva and Tya White. The conference featured keynote speeches, panels,… Read more »
22
Oct
Business Students Place Second in Cyber Security SOCathon Competition
A team of students from the UTSA College of Business placed second in the 2020 UTSA Cyber Range SOCathon competition. The students were members of the CompTIA student chapter at UTSA. Team members were juniors Cris Rivera and Ryenn White; seniors Chris Bates, Brandon Taylor Bonnell, Adam Kissee and Chandler Santos; and graduate student Steven… Read more »
19
Oct
UTSA Cyber Range Partners with the State of North Dakota
The UTSA College of Business Cyber Range recently partnered with the state of North Dakota to provide training and workshops for their cybersecurity team. “North Dakota plans on using the UTSA Cyber Range in a variety of ways to facilitate training as well as team assessment,” said Joe Mallen, director of the UTSA Cyber Range.… Read more »
15
Oct
Professor Raymond Choo Named Leadership Fellow
Named an Advancing Next-Gen Faculty Leadership fellow for 2020–2021, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo is a professor in the College of Business and holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship in addition to being an information technology Ph.D. adviser. He joined UTSA in 2016 as part of the cluster hiring program to broaden and deepen the university’s area of research excellence in… Read more »
30
Sep
UTSA Place-kicker Hunter Duplessis Taking Things One Kick at a Time
Always focusing on the next kick, UTSA place-kicker Hunter Duplessis, ’20 understands the importance of teamwork both on the field as well as in business. “Investing in the future of football at first was difficult for me,” said Duplessis, who earned bachelor’s degrees in information systems and cyber security in the College of Business. “But,… Read more »
28
Sep
Phillip Green to Present Keynote Address at the Frost Distinguished Lecture Series Oct. 13
Phillip Green, chairman and chief executive officer of Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc., will present the keynote address during the UTSA College of Business Frost Distinguished Lecture Series. The virtual lecture begins at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 13. Green joined the Cullen/Frost organization in 1980 and has served in a number of managerial positions within the company’s… Read more »
25
Sep
Clinton Langford Named UTSA Accounting Alumnus of the Year
Clinton Langford, MBA ’05, has been named the 2020 Accounting Alumnus of the Year in the UTSA College of Business Department of Accounting. Langford is a partner at BKD LLP, CPAs and Advisors in San Antonio. “I’m very humbled and honored to receive this award,” said Langford. “To be honored with the past distinguished recipients… Read more »
21
Sep
UTSA Finance Department Receives $50,000 Gift to Support Research
The UTSA College of Business Department of Finance received a $50,000 gift from Vittal Kadapakkam in support of faculty research with Ph.D. students. The gift will establish the Kadapakkam Chenthamarai Finance Research Excellence Fund. Kadapakkam is the son of UTSA Frost Chair of Finance Palani-Rajan Kadapakkam. The fund, in honor of the donor’s grandfather, will… Read more »
17
Sep
UTSA Student Chapter Receives Superior Merit Award from SHRM
The UTSA student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) earned the Superior Merit Award for 2019-2020 from the national chapter of SHRM. “This honor indicates prestige among the student chapters and recognizes excellence in providing growth and development opportunities to its members,” said Aimee Laun, SHRM chapter adviser and director of the… Read more »
8
Sep
Alumna E’Mon Carson Gains Insights from National Black MBA Association Conference
It is hard not to feel energized and excited after listening to E’Mon Carson ‘19, MSB ’20 share her experience from the 2019 National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Conference. Carson was selected as one of five students from the MBA and Master of Science in Business (MSB) programs at the College of Business to attend… Read more »
19
Aug
CPE Delivers Professional Development Programs in Virtual Environment
As part of the mission to create a collaborative learning community for local professionals, the Center for Professional Excellence (CPE) at UTSA’s College of Business is responding to the new reality of remote work by adapting their professional development programs for fall to a virtual format. “We recognize that the last few months have dramatically… Read more »
14
Aug
Business Researcher Finds Bias in Disease-Tracking Algorithms on Social Media
Social media has become the latest method to monitor the spread of diseases such as influenza or coronavirus. However, machine learning algorithms used to train and classify tweets have an inherent bias because they do not account for how minority groups potentially communicate health information. These are the findings made by UTSA researchers in one… Read more »
