Robin Russell, professor of business information technology, received American Society for Quality’s (ASQ) Gyrna Award for her co-authored paper, “SEM of Service Quality to Predict Overall Patient Satisfaction in Medical Clinics: A Case Study,” published in 2015 in the Quality Management Journal. The award recognizes the paper, published in the preceding year, which has made the largest single contribution to the extension of understanding and knowledge in the philosophy, principles, or methods of quality management.

Weiguo “Patrick” Fan, Alan Wang, Linda Wallace, and Mi Zhou received the Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association (AAA). Their paper, “Project Communications on Crowdfunding Success: An Empirical Study Based on Elaboration Likelihood Model,” was selected for the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section.