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Three Spears School students receive national scholarships

Written by Jill Banzet, Spears School communications intern
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 07:18
STILLWATER, Okla. - Three Spears School of Business students received national scholarships at the recent SAS Global Forum. More than 3,000 professionals attended the conference, which took place March 21-24 in Washington, D.C. Sohail Mohammed, Spruthi Parupalli and Umme Haani each received an expense-paid trip to the forum through the scholarship. All three are students in the OSU graduate certificate in business data mining program and are pursuing master’s degrees in management information systems. “I am very proud of these students,” said Goutam Chakraborty, OSU professor of marketing and founder of the OSU graduate certificate in business data mining program. “Only 20 such scholarships are awarded nationally each year by SAS. Thus, winning three of these scholarships is a clear indication of the strength and quality of our program, as well as our students.”
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OSU ISyTE Academy asks High School Students to Consider a Degree in MIS

Written by Nathan Lynch, CEPD Marketing Intern
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 12:02
Stillwater, Okla. - High school students who are interested in the intersection of business and technology are encouraged to apply for a scholarship to attend the OSU Information Systems Technology Exploration (ISyTE) Academy. The OSU ISyTE Academy will be held on May 31 - June 5, 2009 on the Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater, Okla. Twenty students will receive a full scholarship that covers all the expenses, meals and lodging for the program.
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Innovative Technologies course going strong in its second year at Stillwater High

Written by Jill Banzet, Spears School communications intern
Monday, 09 February 2009 12:29
STILLWATER, Okla. - For the second year, Oklahoma State University and Stillwater High School have partnered to bring a course about innovative technologies to SHS students. The course is aimed at introducing students to skills associated with careers in management information systems (MIS), a career area that focuses on applying technology to solve real-world organization problems. David Biros, assistant professor of management science and information systems at OSU, and SHS teacher Jason Webber team-teach the innovative technologies course five days a week. Throughout the semester-long course, 24 students from the 11th and 12th grades will learn how build and network computers, about information security and how to protect systems from hackers, and how to design and build software.
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MIS Department hosts 48 Stillwater high school students

Written by Ruth Bobbitt
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 11:20
STILLWATER, Okla. - The OSU Department of Management Science and Information Systems hosted the third annual Stillwater High School MIS Day on Dec. 16. Forty-eight advanced calculus and statistics students from Stillwater High School participated in workshops about password cracking, digital forensics, radio frequency identification and voice recognition. This annual event helps increase awareness about careers in management information systems and MIS degree programs at OSU.

Spears School students win national awards

Written by Emily Kilian, Spears School communications intern
Friday, 14 November 2008 10:30
STILLWATER, Okla. - Two student teams from Oklahoma State University earned second and third place honors at the national “data mining” shootout competition, which was part of the 11th annual data mining conference “M2008.” The conference was hosted by SAS and held Oct. 27-28 in Las Vegas. Members of the second place team are Samyog Bhattarai, Amjad Elsamen, Fengchun Tang, Xing Wan, Xuequn Wang, and Leila Zelnick from OSU’s management information systems, marketing and statistics programs. Members of the third place team are Gary Hatfield, Miriam McGaugh, and Jason White from OSU’s educational psychology, management information systems, and statistics programs. These students competed against 35 other teams from across the nation.
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OSU Invites High School Students to Come to the US for an Undergraduate Degree in MIS

Written by Spears School
Wednesday, 02 July 2008 08:19
Professors from Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business are visiting India during the week of January 22-26 to encourage high school students to get their undergraduate education at OSU, a top-ranked American comprehensive university. OSU is already the choice of thousands of postgraduate students from India. This initiative is to extend the same welcome to students preparing for their undergraduate admission.
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Students encouraged to consider I.T. careers

Written by Spears School

Wednesday, 02 July 2008 08:18

Don’t believe everything you see or hear on the news. Despite reports about information technology jobs going overseas, the U.S. Department of Labor reports that five of the top 30 fastest growing occupations in the country are in I.T.

Read the full story in the Stillwater NewsPress