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Year in Review: 2017 Saw Faculty Receiving Honors, Research With Impact being conducted and Groundbreaking Conferences and Symposiums
By Keith Morelli

TAMPA (December 12, 2017) -- Twelve months. Fifty-Two weeks. Three-hundred-sixty-five days. That's 2017 broken down to its barest essentials. But the year was much more than that. Here's a list of some of what made 2017 special:
January
Muma College of Business Students Excel at Hackathon Challenge
Competition was fierce among 20 enterprising ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏstudents who focused on chatbots and vied for cash prizes in a Jabil-sponsored Hackathon. The 12-hour event was the first Hackathon, a competition at which creativity and self-expression through technology were rewarded. The competition pitted teams of ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏstudents against each other and emphasized the role of IT in manufacturing. The