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The 2024 AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference at Utah State University. The event showcased the talents in the fields of enterprise, data, technology, and security.

Huntsman Students won First and Second Place prizes in the 2023 Domo for Higher Education Student Case Competition. The competition provided a unique opportunity for teams to demonstrate their proficiency in leveraging Domo's solutions to address real-wor...

Reagan Siggard, an instructor in the Data Analytics & Information Systems Department, was recognized as the 2022-2023 Huntsman School of Business Teacher of the Year.

Professor Lianne Wappett epitomizes the definition of a mentor. Whether scholarships, internships, or relationships, she has always made time in her schedule for visits, both personal and professional. Because of Professor Wapptt's direct influence, I hav...

When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, some said it was the beginning of a long-predicted takeover of the human world by Artificial Intelligence. Similar concerns were expressed when the internet...

Andy Brim, Pedram Jahangiry, and Sharad Jones from the Huntsman School of Business Data Analytics and Information Systems department joined a discussion about Artifical Intelligence in the Salt Lake Tribune. Click here to read more

Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2022-2023 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

The decision to enroll in college in her 40s wasn’t easy for Star Stevens. But as a single mother, she knew she needed to do something following her divorce to elevate her salary enough to provide for her three children.

Sharad Jones was in first grade and barely able to read when he stumbled across a book on the life cycle of stars in the school library. Poring over the pages, he learned that over a period of about 4 billion years, the sun would eventually expand to a r...

Sarah Wilcox graduated in May 2022 from Utah State University in Management Information Systems. She began her studies more than ten years ago at Snow College, pausing her education to marry and have four children. Always hungry for knowledge, but with

Each year, the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recognizes top-performing students, staff, and faculty for their academic and professional accomplishments. For the 2021-2022 academic year, we would like to acknowledge and commend the following individua...

Faculty honors for Huntsman School of Business faculty members for the year 2021.

As we begin to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, how will our world be different? In a look at The Big Picture, faculty from the Huntsman School provide their thoughts on leadership, learning and teaching, finance, and energy.

Huntsman Student awards for the year of 2021. 2021 Student Awards, Geraldine Robins Award, students awards

We are excited to announce the launch of a new Data Analytics Information Systems (DAIS) Department in the Huntsman School. Formerly known as Management & Information Systems, the DAIS department is focused on preparing students for analytics-oriented car...

Utah State University students competed against universities throughout the state of Utah at the annual State Leadership Conference for the Collegiate Business Club, PBL (Phi Beta Lambda) and walked away with eight total awards.

Three Huntsman students and a Huntsman club were recognized at the 63rd Annual Robins Awards Ceremony at Utah State University. The Robins Awards are the most coveted of all Utah State honors. They reward students and faculty for hard work and dedication ...

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapter in the Huntsman School of Business has been internationally recognized for excellence for the third year in a row. The chapter was awarded “Distinguished Chapter” for the 2019-2020 year. This f...

In the back of her mind, Utah epidemiologist Lindsay Meyers, director of medical data systems at Salt Lake City-based BioFire Diagnostics, LLC, was keenly aware of the threat of a novel respiratory virus popping up among the usual suspects of cold and flu...

Daily life around the world has been deeply impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, from how we communicate, work, spend, and engage with healthcare, to our consumption of food, education, and the availability of goods and services. In a look at The Big Pictur...

Great leaders strive to live the kind of life that Ralph Waldo Emerson described, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

Our Huntsman faculty and staff deserve recognition for their hard work, impressive accomplishments, and incredible attitudes. Recognize their awards and pay respects to dear friends.

Our students have accomplished many things along their Huntsman Journey. Student Accomplishments and Highlights October 26, 2020

Lianne Wappett, a lecturer in the Department of Data Analytics & Information Systems, was recognized as the 2019-2020 Huntsman School of Business Teacher of the Year.

A medical device firm started by a team of five interdisciplinary students from Utah State University, the University of Utah, and the University of Wyoming won the $25,000 grand prize at Utah’s statewide medical device competition. The firm, Optima Recov...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business wishes to recognize those individuals within our college who recently received promotions. These individuals are: Sterling Bone, Marketing and Strategy, Promoted to Full Professor; Kelly Fadel, Data Analytics and Inf...

Utah State University’s Association for Information Systems (AIS) student chapter in the MIS Department, led by their Executive Board: Benton Smith, Taylor Petersen, Megan Fogarty, and Henry Blackburn, was recognized for the second year in a row as the St...

The greatest teachers live forever in the hearts and minds of the students whose lives they touch. With a unique capacity for understanding the way the world works and for communicating that to others, they cultivate passion, curiosity, and a pursuit of e...

Isela Phelps went from speaking one word of English when she arrived in the US to earning two degrees from the Huntsman School. Here’s her incredible journey, in her own words.

What are the odds of achieving two significant life goals, plus a third honor you were never expecting, in the span of just a few months? Just ask Dr. Chris Corcoran, a USU- and Harvard-trained statistician, who is having an incredible, if mathematically ...

Research published and presented by Huntsman School Faculty including Merideth Thompson, Katarzyna Bilicka, Bret Crane, Chris Hartwell, and Gary Thurgood.

Our Huntsman faculty and staff deserve recognition for their hard work, impressive accomplishments, and incredible attitudes. Recognize their awards and pay respects to dear friends.

From Woman of the Year to Undergraduate Research awards, our students have accomplished many things along their Huntsman Journey.

Utah State University celebrated its 132nd Commencement of May 2-3, 2019. The Huntsman School graduated 1,189 students, including Ivan Cheah, our Scholar of the Year, who came to USU from Malaysia, to those who grew up just a few blocks from campus.

Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business announced the establishment of the Huntsman Fund for Faculty Excellence. The $15 million fund will create a permanent endowment for named professorships.