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The new dean of the WVU College of Business and Economics is eager to get into his new position. And that’s an understatement.

Two recent graduates from West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics recently got the chance of a lifetime – to take part in Super Bowl 50 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

A team of three MBA students from West Virginia University recently helped make a case for expansion on a company that is undoubtedly changing the game for the labor force in the state of West Virginia.

With the start of the fall semester in 2015 came the start of a new chapter for Dr. Olga Broyaka, the College of Business and Economics' newest assistant professor of management and perhaps the only professor and researcher in the college to have published research papers in three different languages.

Despite rapidly growing competition and more demanding ranking criteria, West Virginia University's Online Hybrid MBA has been ranked in the top 40 programs in the nation for the fourth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report.

Ednilson Bernardes, associate professor of supply chain management, is, in part, responsible for getting the supply chain program off the ground so quickly at the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University – and this month, he has another honor attached to his name.

West Virginia Executive recognized true Mountaineer spirit and a force within the state’s business community, naming two-time West Virginia University College of Business and Economics graduate Donald F. Mock III to the Young Guns Class of 2016.

It’s no secret that the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University has made a concerted effort over the last decade to better involve its students, faculty and programs in the global marketplace through education, research, study abroad and student exchange opportunities.

B&E’s MSIR Advisory Council has elected a new chairman in a man who has long-served the group, and is known as a big contributor.

Congleton wakes up and writes every day from 6:30 a.m. to noon before coming in to work at the College of Business and Economics to teach in the early afternoon, attend committee meetings and tend to students’ needs until the evenings. With multiple simultaneous book projects on the horizon, he also takes time to write on the weekends.

“Just during weekdays, 50 hours is a light work week for me,” he said.