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Campus Review
July 7, 2014
Business Students Excel at
Student Academic Conference
The College of Business made $300 in
cash awards available for talented stu-
dents at the recent Student Academic
Conference, which was designed to show-
case student research work.
In the category of Poster Session Awards,
a big congratulations goes out to the first
place poster entitled "Dolores Huerta" by
Melanie Hammond and Tawana Jackson
(author and presenter). The second place
poster award was for the "Mary Crow
Dog" poster by Kilwanna Wright and Sita
Moore. Faculty advisors for both poster
sessions were Diane Fulton and Thomas
Garsombke, who team-taught the leader-
ship/principles courses and worked joint-
ly on the leadership model, which formed
the theoretical basis of the students'
research projects.
In the area of Oral Presentation Awards,
first place was earned for "Indexing for
Higher Education Construction Projects"
by Alex Rodriguez, Brenda Moon, Joseph
Majak (presenter and author) and Evadne
Matthews (presenter and author). The fac-
ulty advisor for the MBA level project
was Reza Kheirandish and the students
worked with the owners of a community-
based architectural firm, who also attend-
ed the session.
Second place was awarded for "Childcare
at Clayton State University: A Marketing
Research Study to Determine the Demand
for and Student Expectations of a Campus
Chldcare Facility" by Jennifer Buege
(author and presenter), Jarrett Holland,
Ebony Johnson and Tiffany Johnson; an
undergraduate project guided by faculty
advisor Anita Whiting in her marketing
research course.
Third Place went to the presentation enti-
tled "P&G's PUR Water Purifier:
Corporate Philanthropy and Shareholder
Value" by Lauren Frazier (presenter and
author), Persephone Lowe (presenter and
author), Sakshi Sawhney (presenter and
author), and Turki Alsulaiman. Faculty
advisor Alphonso Ogbuehi mentored the
project in his MBA course. Honorable
Mention was given to Aiman Fadil, an
MBA student for his talk, "Language is an
Essential Skill for a Global Manager."
Fadil was advised by Fulton in her MBA
Global Business and International
Logistics course.
The faculty Advisors should also be rec-
ognized for their support and encourage-
ment of the students to complete their
research projects and successfully enter
the competition. In addition, the evalua-
tion of research projects would not be
possible without the great judges for the
Poster Sessions -- Margaret Thompson,
Judith Ogden and Kheirandish, and those
faculty
who
judged
the
Oral
Presentations; including Nikki Finlay,
Kheirandish, Ogbuehi, Fulton and
Thompson. Final Judges for the Awards
were Thompson and Fulton, who also
served on the Student Academic Research
Conference Committee as the College of
Business representative.
A total of 17 students in business were
accepted and successfully participated in the
Conference this year in six poster/oral pres-
entation sessions. Cash awards and certifi-
cates were presented to all award winners at
the annual College of Business Honors
Award Ceremony on Friday, May 9.