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College of Business Professor Receives NSF Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently informed Dr. Victor Wacham Mbarika of the selection of his proposal for funding by NSF in the amount of $500,000 over a five-year period. The Human Centered Computing Cluster of NSF selected Dr. Mbarika's proposal from among many others from universities across the country.

Southern Center Aims to Aid Africa

Associated Press - July 28, 2007 7:44 PM ET

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - An assistant professor whose main area of expertise is e-business is working to help sick and needy people in Africa get medical care from doctors in Louisiana over the Internet.

Victor Mbarika -- a native of Cameroon -- is director of Southern University's new International Center for Information Technology and Development.

He says it will let village nurses send their patients' photographs and symptoms over the Internet to doctors who can make diagnoses and prescribe treatments.

Mbarika Overseeing Old South Baton Rouge Rebirth

By CHAD CALDER (Originally Published in The Advocate)

Southern University professor Victor Mbarika, newly appointed to the board that will oversee the redevelopment of Old South Baton Rouge, stepped up to the lectern at McKinley Middle School one Tuesday night last month.

Victor Mbarika with SLU Students (c) The Advocate

His job — like that of the 14 others who’d accepted their nominations — was to tell residents a little about himself and what he wanted to focus on personally.

SU College of Business E-Business gains global attention

By Alexis J. Alexander

The Southern University College of Business; new electronic business program is steadily gaining national and international recognition.

"The overall idea is to use e-business as a tool in developing countries," said Dr. Victor Mbarika, professor of e-commerce and databases.

In an interview with Afritec LTD, and African Communication and Telecommunication Company, Mbarika stated,

Prof. mbarika at the "Africa's Brain Grain" Conference

From 19th - 22nd December 2004, Prof. Mbarika was in Nairobi, Kenya for the 2004 AFRICA'S BRAIN GAIN Nairobi Conference. Described as "A Conference for the Diaspora, Universities, Government Departments and Agencies, NGOs, Development Partners, and the Private Sector", the conference theme was "Facilitating Return of Talents to Africa through Research and Project Collaboration".

The goal of the conference was:

• To identify collaboration opportunities in trade and investments between the Diaspora and the African continent.
• To foster research project collaboration between the Diaspora and Africa-based universities, development donors, NGOs, government departments and agencies, and the private sector.
• To foster the formulation of policies that will facilitate integration of the Diaspora into the continent’s capacity development agenda.

SU College of Business starts E-Business program

BY ALEXIS J. ALEXANDER

The Southern Digest Online - September 28, 2004

"This is a unique program," said Dr. Victor Mbarika, professor of E-Commerce and Databases. "Our goal is to instruct students on becoming internationally competitive as well as becoming entrepreneurs."

The Southern University College of Business has made adjustments, not only structurally, but physically as well to contend with the demands of advancing technology.

The college is now offering an undergraduate degree in Electronic Business for the first time ever, effective the fall 2004 semester.