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Sykes<br />
Where Creativity Begins 2016 ANNUAL REPORT<br />
SYKES COLLEGE OF BUSINESS<br />
A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN<br />
Dear Friends and Supporters,<br />
I am happy to provide you with a glimpse of all the good work that<br />
has come out of the Sykes College of Business this past year. One of<br />
the challenges in writing this is that we have many noteworthy items<br />
and not sufficient space to cover them all in this annual report. The<br />
Sykes College of Business is on a positive trajectory of continuous<br />
improvement, strength, and is gaining a greater academic reputation<br />
every year. This past year we added new courses, new curricula,<br />
new academic programs, and improved our rankings. One of our new<br />
rankings puts us at No. 78 in Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of best<br />
full time MBA programs. We deserve to be in the top 100 business<br />
schools in the U.S., and we finally have made a crack into this hard<b<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=1"> Sykes Where Creativity Begins 201</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=2"> A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Dear Friends and </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=3"> SECURING OUR STATURE One of the Elite Business S</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=4"> STUDENTS AT UT We Focus On Our People </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=5"> Students Launch UT Cybersecurity Club By Alexis P</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=6"> STUDENTS AT UT We Focus On Our People </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=7"> From back left: Writwika Das, Michael Hartman, Da</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=8"> DYNAMIC PROGRAMS New Thinking, New Opportunities </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=9"> Explosive Enrollment Growth of Cybersecurity Prog</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=10"> DYNAMIC PROGRAMS New Thinking, New Opportunities </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=11"> COB Graduate Business Students Visit Peru By Amy </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=12"> CENTERS AT UT Where the Business Community Comes </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=13"> Sykes Hall of Fame Business Speaker Series Featur</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=14"> CENTERS AT UT Where the Business Community Comes </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=15"> The success of the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=16"> CENTERS AT UT Where the Business Community Comes </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=17"> Global Access Partnership 2016 in Havana, Cuba: A</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=18"> AWARDS AND ACCOLADES A Year of Remarkable Achieve</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=19"> John Stinespring, associate professor of economic</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=20"> AWARDS AND ACCOLADES A Year of Remarkable Achieve</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=21"> College of Business Summer Research Grant The fol</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=22"> ATTRACTING TOP FACULTY AND STAFF Sykes Welcomes N</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=23"> Bachman P. Fulmer III Sarah M. Fulmer </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=24"> ATTRACTING TOP FACULTY AND STAFF Sykes Welcomes N</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=25"> Sangbum Ro Nargess Tahmasbi </a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=26"> SCHOLARSHIP Selected Faculty Publications Ag</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=27"> Sykes College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council</a>
<a title="COB-AnnualReport-2016 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/454c43a2?page=28"> Sykes College of Business 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., B</a>