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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.

(February 24, 2009) Missing & Musical Professorships What Happened to the Williams & Parham-Bridges, and Who Should Hold Them? The CoB has a few professorships. The list includes (1) the Morgan Distinguished Professorship in Accounting, (2) the Draughn Distinguished Professorship in Healthcare Marketing, (3) the McCarty Distinguished Professorship in Information Systems, and (4) the Kaetsu Distinguished Professorship in International Business. Not included among this list are the Williams Distinguished Professorship in Minority Entrepreneurship and the Parham-Bridges Distinguished Professorship in Real Estate. These two are omitted from the list of four above not because they aren't funded. No, they have been funded, and in the case of the Parham-Bridges, the funding is substantial and it has been around (i.e., in the USM Foundation) for quite some time.

(April 22, 2009) Breaking News Fujun Lai Wins 2009 Brandt Award LONG BEACH – Associate professor of decision sciences (DS), Fujun Lai, has been named the winner of the CoB’s 2009 Louis K. Brandt Award. As stated in CoB dean Lance Nail’s 21-April-09 e-mail to CoB faculty, the LKBA is a biennial award recognizing the CoB faculty with the most significant contributions to scholarship over the previous two years. As pointed out by USMNEWS.net on earlier occasions, the 2009 LKBA is based on scholarly contributions over the period 2007-08.

(May 20, 2009) Ghosts, Professorships, & Ghost Professorships It's Time to Know What Happened to the Parham-Bridges & Williams Over the last few days, readers of USMNEWS.net have been treated to reports and editorials discussing various CoB faculty "ghosts," a term used to describe those CoB faculty who are seldom seen in the corridors of Joseph A. Greene Hall. Everyone knows who these figures are – Mark Klinedinst, John Clark, Farooq Malik, etc. Other reports and editorials have discussed who should hold each professorship, from whether or not the McCarty Distinguished Professorship in MIS should be taken from Chang-Tseh Hsieh and given to Fujun Lai, to whether or not the Morgan Distinguished Professorship in Accounting should still be retained by Roderick Posey.