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The MIS Department held the first Top 10 Percent Event on Sept. 18 after the UGA Career Fair. It brought together “black-level” corporate members of the Board and the top 10 percent of our students based on their academic performance and leadership skills.

Two doctoral students from the MIS PhD program have recently accepted faculty positions. Jennifer Claggett and Seth Li will be joining the University of Virginia and Clemson University, respectively.

The MIS department welcomes two new faculty members: Astrid Lipp and Nikhil Srinivasan.

MIS professor Amrit Tiwana spent a week in Japan in late November as part of a new Japanese government-funded initiative to develop a research program on systems-inspired businesses in Japan.

Every year MIS Quarterly, which is a premier academic journal in the information systems discipline, selects a paper from the previous year for the Best Paper of the Year Award.

Nick Berente, assistant professor of MIS, received a $205,000 award from the National Science Foundation to develop a prototype for an online environment to help science leaders run their large-scale enterprises more effectively.

UGA’s chapter of SMIS has once again received accolades from the Association for Information Systems. It was selected as a 2013 Distinguished Chapter, a title the chapter has held since 2010.