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Sandra Blanke, director for the Center of Cybersecurity Education and associate professor of management, was named the Ralph and Joy Ellis Endowed Chair in Management Technology for her “tireless pursuit to advance her students’ skills in the field of cybersecurity.” At a time when cybersecurity is ever more critical to business, Blanke remains devoted to her students and “advancing the study of technology and management,” a mission for which the endowed chair was founded. |
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Bruce Evans, professor of management, received the Impact Award to recognize his influence on Gupta College’s curriculum, his students and his relationships with Dallas/Fort Worth companies. More than 900 completed student projects have assisted more than 500 companies in North Texas as part of the college’s Capstone Consulting Experience, a hallmark program that he helped launch in 1973. |
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Laura Muñoz, associate professor of marketing, received the Engagement Award for her passion and enthusiasm for her students. As a faculty coach in national competitions and as adviser for Market Share - Marketing, an undergraduate student organization affiliated with the American Marketing Association, she is able to connect theory with practice to her students’ great benefit. |
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J. Lee Whittington, professor of management, received the Innovation Award for his leadership and development of the Gupta College’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program. With this unique doctoral degree — designed for professionals with extensive managerial experience looking to transform business practice — Whittington introduced Texas’ only DBA program accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). |
His first step was to enroll in physician’s assistant school at Baylor’s College of Medicine, a career trajectory to which he had aspired since his early childhood. Nowadays, Jonathan Cunningham, BA ’17, is dedicated to the vocational pursuit of comfort and healing at MD Anderson in Houston, among the largest cancer treatment centers in the U.S., where he was once a chemotherapy patient himself.
+ Read MoreDuring his Rome semester in 1991, Joseph Meaney, BA '93, with his friends (now Father) Kevin Cook, BA '94, and (now Texas State Representative and UD Trustee) Tan Parker, BA '93, attended a private Mass with Pope St. John Paul II. Several weeks earlier, they had hand-delivered a letter to the Swiss Guards outside St. Peter's requesting the Mass and including their contact information; at last, they'd received the phone call instructing them to be at the Bronze Gates at 5 a.m.
+ Read MoreFrom the time he was in fourth grade, Bishop Francis Malone, BA '74 MA '77 MDiv '77, knew he was going to be a priest. As he was serving Mass in his home parish, Malone heard God's call, loud and clear.
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