The inaugural issue of Impact Magazine highlights a finance professor who was named to a list of the world's most cited researchers. The magazine also includes feature stories on an MBA graduate who redesigned her career path to thrive, the email that changed a student's life and fueled his future, and research projects on AI for coding, sports analytics, and more.
The explorer of uncharted questions
Pornsit “P.J.” Jiraporn, professor of finance, says his work as a researcher is like being an intellectual explorer, going where no one has gone before and creating new knowledge. His work has been cited by other scholars more than 13,000 times, and he was named to a top-cited researcher list.
Redesigning her path
Jessie Whiteman pursued her MBA and found confidence, clarity and a career change. She landed three job offers, one in each of her target industries, and she is now thriving in her new position.
Creating tools that ‘do wonders’
When Bharat Sharma was accepted to Penn State Great Valley, he said he remembered feeling joy that gave way to uncertainty about how he would afford graduate school. A scholarship fueled his studies and his research, helping him use technology to make people’s jobs easier.