Internal Updates: May 2025

From the COB Operations Team...

🚗Parking Garage 3 Summer Closure - UPDATE

We have the latest update on PG3. The official date for the closure has been postponed until June 14th. The staff, faculty, and students continue to utilize Garage 3 until then. The expected date to reopen Garage 3 is Saturday August 15^th, 2025. Tugrul will make sure to keep you posted with any further details or changes as we receive them. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out:

Tugrul Kalafat | Assistant Director of Operations

tkalafat@fau.edu | (M) 561-617-4764

We're thrilled to celebrate Dr. Chandra S. Mishra for being recognized as a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS! This honor signifies Dr. Mishra's exceptional performance across various fields, disciplines, and specialties. His strong publication record, the profound impact of his research, and the notable quality of his scholarly contributions have earned him a spot in the top 0.5% of all scholars globally. Explore his achievements further on his ScholarGPS profile. Congratulations Chandra, on this outstanding accomplishment!

Let's take a moment to celebrate and thank our amazing faculty! Your commitment to nurturing our Ph.D. students has truly paid off. The diverse research areas and impressive career paths of our recent graduates and their job placements are a shining example of your dedication and the excellence of our program. We're so excited to follow their future successes.

On behalf of Steven Carnovale...

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the resounding success of our 2nd Annual IMI Supply Chain Case Competition! We're especially grateful for the visionary support of Dean Gropper and ITOM Chair Tamara Dinev in fostering our partnership with International Materials. Our sincere appreciation also goes to the Undergraduate and Graduate Advisors for their crucial role in promoting the new Supply Chain case study course. And finally, a big shout-out to the Communications team for developing compelling and dynamic marketing materials, engaging social media content, and webpage, all of which were vital to making this event a triumph!  

Peer-Reviewed Research

Robert Pinsker, Daszkal Bolton Professor in the School of Accounting, with co-authors, JiangBo Huangfu and Hanbing (Harper) Xing, both accounting graduates of the FAU College of Business Ph.D. program, have had their paper, “Business Strategy and Blockchain Adoption,” accepted for publication in Accounting Horizons (AJG 3).

Charles Yang, Professor, Finance, with co-authors, have had their article, “A stochastic model of mutual insurance under heterogeneous time preferences," accepted for publication in North American Actuarial Journal (Premier RMI journal, ABDC A).

Hong Yuan, Harry T. Mangurian Professor & Chair, Marketing Department, with co-authors, have had their paper, "Implicit Ethical Consumerism: Development and Cross-cultural Validation of a Novel Affect-Misattribution Measure," accepted in the Psychology & Marketing (AJG 3).

Public Scholarship Research

Steven Carnovale, Associate Professor, ITOM - Logistics Managers' Index 

Rebel Cole, Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor, Finance - Banking Initiative at Florida Atlantic: U.S. Banks' Exposure to Risk from Commercial Real Estate Screener, U.S. Banks’ Unrealized Losses on Investment Securities Screener, Uninsured Deposits to Total Deposits, Uninsured Deposit to Liquid Assets

Monica Escaleras, Professor and Chair, Economics - Hispanic Index of Consumer Sentiment

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