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(February 1, 2009) Winning the Brandt Award — A Boon or a Curse? A number of reports have popped up at USMNEWS.net of late setting the stage for the CoB's 2009 Louis K. Brandt Research Award. That award, which will be presented in just a few weeks at the CoB's spring awards banquet, is expected to go to associate professor of decision sciences Fujun Lai.

(March 22, 2009) Our Most Talented Colleagues Unique A-Level Hits of Current & Former CoB Faculty – Economics In May of 2007, untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, a first-year CoB faculty who, to use EFIB chairman George Carter's term, had just been "canned" by the University of Alabama, took the floor at the end of the CoB's spring 2007 convocation. He then proceeded to blast the USMNEWS.net editor and various CoB faculty for speaking out against the CoB's administration in a way Dakhlia felt encouraged his (Dakhlia's) most talented colleagues to leave USM. Of course, Dakhlia wasn't speaking out in support of those CoB faculty who had been abused by CoB administrators, as management professor Sharon Topping had spoken for only minutes before Dakhlia was handed the rostrum by then-interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. The faculty Topping referred to were beginning to leave the CoB as well by spring of 2007. Dakhlia, however, was, according to sources, speaking on behalf of CoBers (and Dakhlia's friends) like Zaher Hallab (tourism management) and Akbar Marvasti (economics), CoB administrators' favorites who were either leaving the CoB at that time or expressing a desire to do so.

(May 9, 2009) Just an Old Sweet Song In and Around USM’s College of Business Reports continue to arrive at USMNEWS.net offices about former CoB faculty who are moving around the country. The latest of these is Franklin Mixon, who is heading to Mercer University for the 2009-10 academic year.