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VIT MBA Admission 2022: AACSB Accredited, VIT Business School (VITBS) is the constituent college of VIT University Vellore. The application process for MBA admission at VIT Vellore is now open
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the ECL, DLC, and Dr. Courtney Rivard a $54,000 grant to develop a proposal for a gaming studies minor.
A much-loved lecturer in East Tennessee State University’s Department of Management and Marketing, Ricki Kaplan, passed away last Friday at the age of 56.
The department of statistics and operations research, better known as STOR, will introduce a data science minor in fall 2021 that is designed to appeal to students majoring in a broad array of disciplines. The minor is an important component of the soon-to-launch data science initiative, a pan-University effort. When people hear “data science,” they might think of tech jobs: programming the algorithms that generate the ads that pop up on social media or the statistical analysis used to predict online behavior. Research scientists of course use data science in such diverse fields as genomi...
Poetry and Play in the Pandemic: English Gaming Courses in the Digital Classroom Starting screen for Underdepth, one group’s game from the ENGL 118 and 307 collaboration. This past semester, Professors Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Courtney Rivard successfully navigated the limitations of the pandemic to create an innovative and collaborative online classroom. The parallel-taught courses, Rivard’s ENGL 118: Storytelling and Game Development and Calvocoressi’s ENGL 307: Poetry Stylistics, worked together to bridge poetics and gaming, resulting in student-created games that experimented wit...