Department of IROM

Sirkka Jarvenpaa, along with co-author Lisen Selander, have won the MIS Quarterly Paper of the Year for 2016 for their paper entitled "Digital Action Repertoires and Transforming a Social Movement Organization". To learn more about MIS Quarterly, click here.

Clint Tuttle has been chosen in the Texas Ten by The Alcade. Read more here.

Patrick Brockett, along with co-authors, has won the 2015 JIR Spencer L. Kimball Writing Award for his paper "How to Set Rates if You Must: An Efficiency-Based Methodology for Setting Promulgated Insurance Rates with an Application to Title Insurance".

This paper was selected for its careful handling of a topic that is important to a wide range of regulators and policymakers, and for the careful and detailed way in which the topic was discussed and modeled. Combined, Pat and his co-authors created a strong piece of academic research as well as an important public policy paper.

Kumar Muthuraman has been selected for membership in the UT Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers as one of only six new members chosen this year.

The Academy of Distinguished Teachers was established in 1995 as part of the university's commitment to excellence in teaching. It is comprised of approximately five percent of the tenured faculty in the university, and provides leadership in improving the quality and depth of the undergraduate experience. See https://ugs.utexas.edu/academy for more details.



Kumar has demonstrated his talent and dedication to teaching in several different venues, including not only the undergraduate program, but also the MSBA program and the part-time MBA program. He will join both Anitesh Barua and Prabhudev Konana as members of this prestigious Academy.

The following IROM Faculty have won Teaching Awards for the 2016-17 MSB Faculty Awards.

Doug Morrice won the Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Classes. Wen Wen won the Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors. Changseung Yoo won the Fred Moore Assistant Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence. A big congratulations to all our award winning IROM Faculty.