2018 News

January

• Free income tax preparation to be provided by USI students
• Marvin Wright named 2017 Distinguished Accountant
• Federal Reserve Presentations for Economics Classes
• Faculty Publications: Dr. Gongjun Yan. He co-authored, "A Cross-Layer and Optimized Privacy Method in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks."
• Dr. Sudesh Mujumdar talks about President Trump's State of the Union address (Eyewitness News)
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Daria Sevastianova. Sevastianova presented "Introduction to Globalization" to engineering students. Her perspectives reinforce the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration and the connections between business and engineering.
• A new published article, "The Potential of Student Co-Creation in Extracurricular Experiences," is co-authored by Dr. Kevin Celuch, Dr. Dinko Bačić, Dr. Manfen Chen, Ms. Jeanette Maier-Lytle, and Dr. Jack Smothers.

February

• ScreaglePride Shout-out: Jeanette Maier-Lytle
• Twelve selected for 2018 USI community leadership program
• Romain College a partner in Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program
• Dr. Dinko Bacic talks about the UPCI Lab and Evansville Tech on Tap (YouTube)
• Dr. Jason Fertig on DISC profile (YouTube)
• Speaking Eagles Toastmasters presents Dr. Linda Bennett with Communication Achievement Award
• Business team heads to Alberta Not For Profit Business Case Competition
• USI Group Travels to Women in Economics Symposium
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Brett Bueltel. Bueltel presented his research paper, "A Legal Analysis of State Tax Policy for Online Sales: The Recipe for Direct Marketing," at the 2018 American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research Conference.

March

• Mr. Tim Bryan, instructor in accounting, talks about his publication in the Journal of Business and Economics Research
• Dr. Brian McGuire talks about the meaning of membership in Beta Gamma Sigma honor society
• Business team competes at Alberta Not For Profit Challenge
• Five tips for financial empowerment
• Andrew Newman, author and entrepreneur, to be next Entrepreneurial Speaker 
• Bank president visits Romain College
• Congressman Larry Bucshon presents to Promotional Strategy marketing class
• Launch of Girls Who Code club at USI
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Curt Gilstrap, assistant professor of business communication. Gilstrap was the presenter for USI's Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Workshop, required for programs supporting research training, career development, or research education.
• Faculty publication: Dr. Brett Bueltel and Ms. Jamie Seitz. Bueltel and Seitz co-author a publication titled, "When Terminable Interests Prevent the Marital Deduction in Estate Disputes."
• Dr. Brett Bueltel Discussing Taxation of online sales  

April

• Team Introduction in the International Case Competition at Maastricht University, Netherlands
• Getting to know Shannon Farrell, USI Romain College's 2018 Distinguished Graduate
• Entrepreneur's children's books messages have universal application
• 52 students inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
• USI Marketing Club hosts successful alumni networking panel
• USI students take second place at Ball State Information Systems competition
• Faculty members receive Dean's Awards: Dr. Daria Sevastianova, Excellence in Service; Dr. Perry Burnett, Excellence in Teaching; and Dr. Cristina Gilstrap, Excellence in Research.

May

• USI Student Receives Scholarship to Attend International Summer Language School
• Advisory Board Chairs
• USI team competes at Maastricht University
• APS club receives IMA Certificate of Excellence
• USI names Peace Ambassador, Outstanding International Graduates
• Dean of Romain College of Business to serve as interim provost
• Mrs. Cindi Clayton Schnitker Discussing Conference (YouTube)
• Junior Erika Dunkelberger accepted to IFREE Undergraduate Workshop
• USI announces 2018 Technology Commercialization Academy class
• Eleven complete 2018 Connect with Southern Indiana program
• Getting to Know Steve Mudd, Chair of the USI Accounting Circle
• Romain College sponsor of Cybersecurity Conference
• Cindi Clayton Receives USI Spirit of the Eagle Award
• Faculty publication: Dr. Thomas Weber, assistant professor of management. Read his co-authored article titled, "Institutional origins of WOFS formal contracting: A judicial arbitrariness perspective."
• Instructor Zac Parsons presented on social entrepreneurship. A consultant and Honey Moon Coffee founder, Parsons spoke to more than 50 entrepreneur students in Bloomington.
• The Thirst Project 2018

June

• Faculty achievement: Dr. Perry Burnett, associate professor of economics. Burnett's article, Overpopulation, Optimal City Size and the Efficiency of Urban Sprawl, was one of Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies most frequently downloaded articles in the 12 months after online publication.
• Faculty achievement: Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management, director of MBA program. Smothers' co-authored the article, "Social enterprise in Antebellum America: the case of Nashoba (1824-1829).
• Faculty achievement: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science, receives grant award from a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) for developing parallel and distributed computing (PDC) curriculum at Romain College’s computer science program.
• Faculty achievement: Dr. Mark McKnight, associate professor of accounting, and Mr. Shawn Robey, instructor in finance, co-authored the publication, "Spending Surges: Considerations Toward a Proposed Model for Explaining Budgetary Slack in Expiring Budgets."
• Meet the newest members of the USI Accounting Circle
• Accounting major is the recipient of $10,000 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) scholarship

July

• Conference presentations by business faculty and students
• Faculty publication: Dr. Sherif Rashad, associate professor of computer science. His paper titled, “Behavior-Based Security for Mobile Devices using Machine Learning” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications.
• Beta Alpha Psi chapter designated superior chapter
• Flittner to serve as 2018-19 SGA president
• Faculty publication: Dr. Dinko Bačić, assistant professor of computer information systems. His paper, “Biometrics & Business Information Visualization: Re-search Review, Agenda & Opportunities” was accepted to HCI International, a leading Human-Computer Interaction conference and will be published in Springer Computer Science Lecture Notes. This paper is important for the UPCI Lab as it creates a platform/research agenda well aligned with lab mission and technology.
• Faculty presentation: Virginia Weiler, instructor in marketing. Weiler presented, "Going Paperless and Increasing Retention in University Undergraduates: Blackboard as a Retention Tool in a Traditional Classroom Setting," at the BbWorld 2018 Conference in Orlando, which is Blackboard's annual conference.

August

• Getting to know Dr. Jill Oeding, assistant professor of business law
• Getting to know Mr. Joab Schultheis, member of Romain College's IT Alliance advisory board
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Mary Ann Shifflet, assistant professor of economics. She presented a paper titled, "Improving Quality Improvement in Public Health" at the 12th International Conference on Health Care Systems at Harlaxton College in Grantham, England.
• Getting to know Ms. Susan Hardwick, member of Romain College's Accounting Circle advisory board
• Faculty publication: Dr. Brett Bueltel. Bueltel's article titled, “A Legal Analysis of State Tax Policy for Online Sales: The Recipe from Direct Marketing” was published in the ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research, an American Accounting Association journal.
• Faculty Publication and Conference: Dr. Dinko Bačić. Bačić presented a paper at the Americas Conference on Information Systems, one of the leading conferences for presenting the broadest variety of research done by and for IS/IT academicians in the Western Hemisphere. His work will be published in AMCIS 2019 Conference Proceedings.
• Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter recognized as highest honors chapter
• Getting to Know Mr. Eric Reffett, CFO of Flanders, Inc., and member of the Romain College's Board of Advisors
• 2018 is seventh year for international summer university

September

• Getting to know Mr. Ken Sendelweck, USI Trustee and member of Romain College's Board of Advisors
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting. Bueltel was the speaker at the September lunch meeting of the Evansville chapter of Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). The title of his presentation was, "Tax Cuts and Job Acts Update.
• Business organizations well represented at Student Involvement Fair
• Return of the Flip Phone by Dr. Jason Fertig, associate professor of management
• Faculty publication: Dr. Curt Gilstrap, assistant professor of business communication. Gilstrap's article, "Exploring M-Leader Affordances: Team Leaders and Mobile Technologies" has been accepted for publication in the impact factor journal Team Performance Management.
• Getting to know Lisa Slade, president of Slade Print, and member of Romain College's Board of Advisors
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Daria Sevastianova, associate professor of economics. Sevastianova was guest lecturer and presented Trade Wars and Tariffs to USI engineering majors. She was also the keynote speaker at Camp Economics in Santa Claus, Indiana, where she presented Trade War: What Is It Good For?
• SVP Jody Giles Speaks to Classes on Careers in the Banking Field
• UNIV class engagement
• Faculty appointment: Dr. Marie Bussing, assistant professor of economics, was appointed to the Federal Reserve Educational Advisory Board, Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• Stevie Lynch talks about working for DFAS (Defense Finance and Accounting Service)

October

• Collaboration is a win-win for Archie's Food Closet
• Faculty Presentation: Dr. Khaled Elkhal, associate professor of finance, presented, "When Business Risk is High, Managers Want to Borrow, Creditors Refuse to Lend?" at the Academy of Finance, MBAA International Conference in Chicago.
• Interview with Mr. Bill Theby, member of Romain College Board of Advisors
• Interview with Nicholas Scheller, President of AIS
• Best-selling finance expert Chris Hogan to present at USI
• Keach Hagey to present on media, journalism career at USI; event co-sponsored by Romain College and College of Liberal Arts
• Getting to know Ms. Deidre Conner, president of The Arc of Evansville and member of Romain College's Board of Advisors
• The faces behind Romain College's social media videos
• Second annual Hug Alliance Art from the Heart Auction set for November 10
• Alumna Michelle Schroeder named USI Distinguished Accountant
• Meet Alpha Kappa Psi president Mariah Marcuson
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Andrew Dill, assistant professor of accounting, presented, "The Theory of Unintended Amoral Behavior: The Effect of Bounded Ethicality on Managerial Decision-Making Under System 1 and System 2 Thinking" at the 2018 American Accounting Association Annual Conference.
• Meet USI Marketing Club president Mendy Lopez 
• Read our interview with IT Alliance member Scott Franzel, SVP of technology at OFS
• Bringing banking into the classroom
• Chris Hogan: Build wealth, not debt
• Scott Anderson brings aquaponics system to heart of downtown Evansville
• Interview with Mr. David Abbott, member of Romain College's Board of Advisors
• Economics Major Fosters Positive Environment Teaching in Japan
• Mara Caldieraro talks about her involvement in student organizations
• Dr. Peggy Shields talks about online apparel purchasing preferences
• Nick Scheller talks about involvement opportunities with AIS
• Kennedy Moore talks about her summer internship experience with Lexus
• Dr. Jason Fertig on the DISC Profile
• Jesse Reising gives a shoutout to the Accounting Circle and Young Professionals

November

• Faculty publication and presentation: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science. Her research article titled “PEPA Based Performance Modeling for Robust Resource Allocations Amid Varying Processor Availability”, has been published in IEEE Xplore in Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC). She also presented this work at the conference held in Geneva, Switzerland.
• USI Alumna presents in promotional strategy class
• Two students represent Romain College at the third annual Beta Gamma Sigma Global Leadership Summit
• Interview with Mr. David Papariella, vice president of Harding, Shymanski & Company, P.S.C., and member of the Romain College Board of Advisors
• Interview with Kyle Fields, member of Romain College's Board of Advisors
• Romain College of Business hosting Google speaker for Global Entrepreneurship Week
• Meet Jesse Reising, president of USI's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi
• Ten students inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) Honor Society
• Senior receives two Toastmasters certifications
• Marketing Club hosts business panel networking event
• Dr. Sudesh Mujumdar a panelist at the 2018 Economic Outlook Luncheon
• Ryan Loehrlein on International Case Competition at Maastricht University
• Engagement: Mr. Timothy Mahoney talks about Historical Economics
• Innovation & Engagement: Interview with Mr. Timothy Mahoney Part 3
• Impact: Mr. Timothy Mahoney shares some valuable advice
• Nathan Hall talks about reasons to join Beta Gamma Sigma
• Chris Hogan shares valuable advice on money management
• Engagement with Beta Alpha Psi: Department of Defense with Jeff Slaga & Stevie Lynch
• Carly Jordan talks about self driving cars
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Peggy Shields, associate professor of marketing, presented, "Internet Apparel Purchases: An Update" and "The Performing Arts and U.S. Young Adults" at the European Institute of Retailing and Services Studies 25th Conference in Madeira Island, Portugal.

December

• Dr. Jamie Seitz successfully defends dissertation
• Top student participants announced for fall semester
• Dr. Oeding motivates students to power through finals week
• Dr. Sudesh Mujumdar talks about serving as a panelist at the Economic Outlook Luncheon
• Faculty presentation: Cindi Clayton, instructor in business communication. Clayton presented at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 2018 conference in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Her presentation was titled, "Examining the Marginalization of the Birth Mother in Adoption Narratives."
• Faculty presentation: Mr. Tim Bryan, instructor in accounting, presented his dissertation proposal, "Accounting Conservatism or Earnings Manipulation: A Study of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Bad Debt Expense," at the Engaged Management Scholarship Conference at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, as well as at the conference poster session.
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Khaled Elkhal, associate professor of finance. Elkhal presented, "Resurrection of Capital Asset Pricing Models: A Practical Test with Active Management Approach" at the Financial Management Association conference, in San Diego, CA.
• Faculty publication: Dr. Dinko Bačić, assistant professor of computer information. Bačić's publication, "Task-representation fit's impact on cognitive effort in the context of decision timeliness and accuracy: a cognitive perspective," has been accepted in the AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction journal.
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Jill Oeding, assistant professor of business law, was the presenter for the ethics session at the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)-Evansville Chapter. Attendees at her session earned continuing professional education (CPE) credit.
• Faculty publication: Dr. Brett Bueltel and Dr. Jamie Seitz, assistant professors of accounting. Their publication, "Exploring International Whistleblower Behaviors and Legislation," was accepted by the Global Journal of Contemporary Research in Accounting, Auditing and Business Ethics.
• Faculty presentation: Dr. Srishti Srivastava, assistant professor of computer science, presented, "An Analysis of Stochastic Process Algebra Models of Resource Allocations in Parallel and Distributed Computing," at the Indian Institute of Technology, an esteemed research institution in Kanpur, India.
• Dr. Abbas Foroughi, professor of computer information systems and chair of management and information sciences; Dr. Mohammed Khayum, USI Interim Provost; and Dr. Jack Smothers, associate professor of management and MBA director, co-authored "Principle-Based MBA Course Design." Foroughi presented it at the 2018 DSI Annual Meeting in the Innovative Education and Teaching: Course Design and Assessment Session, in Chicago, IL.
• Impact: Dr. Jill Oeding talks about her ethics presentation at the Evansville Chapter of the IMA 
• Engagement with Beta Alpha Psi: Kyle Fields from SS&C
• Innovation: Mara Caldieraro talks about Amazon Go stores
• Using economic theories to better understand power, evil, and religion