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(August 29, 2008) CoB News, 2 September 2008 Osmonbagain! The August 2008 edition of CoB Human Resources Update indicated that former CoB assistant professor of marketing, Talai Osmonbekov, has already added to the research portfolio at Northern Arizona University, his new institutional affiliation. That issue pointed out that Osmonbekov has provided NAU with a publication in the B-level Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing. Not satisfied with that blazing start (Osmonbekov joined NAU in August of 2008), he has now added a publication in the A-level Industrial Marketing Management.

(September 19, 2008) CoB News, 19 September 2008 Hwang, Kozar Keep Rolling Former CoB assistant professor of tourism management, Johye Hwang, and former CoB assistant professor of fashion merchandising, Joy Kozar, continue to roll when it comes to advancing their respective research agendas. Hwang, who left the CoB after 2003 for the University of Missouri, a Tier II institution (USNWR America’s Best Colleges 2009), recently added a publication in the Journal of Foodservice to her growing portfolio. Kozar, who is now affiliated with Kansas State University, also a Tier II institution (USNWR America’s Best Colleges 2009), just put together a second 2008 publication in the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management.

(September 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 September 2008 18 New Faculty at USM-GC According to Charmaine Williams’ 22-Sept-08 USM press release, 18 new faculty have joined the Gulf Coast operation at the University of Southern Mississippi. Among these 18 are four new CoB-GC faculty. These are Brian Collins, Marsha Lay, Dale Lunsford and Marco Wolf.

(September 29, 2008) “What Can You Do?” A LOOK BACK AT BAD TRADES IN COB HISTORY Bad trades of one sort or another have seemed to characterize USM’s College of Business since 2003, the year that D. Harold Doty became the organization’s fourth permanent dean. Those trades have since stretched beyond the Doty administration (2003-07) to include the interim administration of former CoB marketing professor Alvin Williams (2007-08), who is now with the University of South Alabama. One particularly bad trade spanned parts of both the Doty and Williams administrations. That trade also involved the Department of MGT and MKT, home to both Doty and Williams from 2003-08. The principals in this particular trade are Brian Gregory, the 2004 Auburn University PhD (management) who departed the CoB after 2006-07, and Bret Becton, the 2005 Auburn University PhD (management) who joined the CoB in August 2008 as Gregory’s replacement.

(October 3, 2008) CoB News, 3 October 2008 Former ECO Finalists Doing Well in 2008-09 The 2007-08 search process in ECO was one followed closely by USMNEWS.net. In one Breaking News story (ECO Finalists Chosen), several finalists’ names were revealed. It was, however, the photos that accompanied that story (see below) that hinted at what search chair, Akbar Marvasti, and other members of the search team may have been looking for in conducting that search.