Business deans and senior faculty at AACSB accredited business schools have ranked UAHuntsville's undergraduate business program among the top business schools in the US for 2008; among the top 10%, as reported in U.S. News & World Report. UAHuntsville ranks at number 79 among public business schools. UAHuntsville's business school receives certification from the National Information Assurance Education and Training Office for its certificate program in information assurance. For the fourth consecutive year the UAHuntsville's business school led the university in the number of bachelor's degrees awarded at the end of the academic year. Dr. William Souder, the UAHuntsville's business school's first eminent scholar in management, has been named one of the five top scholars in new product innovation research by the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM). UAHuntsville's student chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) placed third among 129 chapters internationally at the recent AMA spring conference in New Orleans. Dr. Xiaotong Li, Assistant Professor of MIS at UAHuntsville, has won the 2006 "best paper" award from the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Dr. Dan Sherman, Associate Dean and Professor of Management, received the 2006 "best research paper" award from the OCIS Division of the Academy of Management. This is Dr. Sherman's second international research award in two years. He received the IEEE Engineering Management Society's research award in 2005. Dr. Jatinder "Jeet" Gupta, UAHuntsville's Business School's eminent scholar in the management of technology, took office as President of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). UAHuntsville business students in the Capital Management Group received a $20,000 award from TVA by turning in the second-best investment performance for 2005 and the third best over the past three years in the Tennessee Valley Authority's Investment Challenge Program. Dr. Cindy Gramm, Professor of Management, was named UAHuntsville's business school's second Zelnak Professor. The Zelnak Professorship was created to support innovative faculty initiatives in education, research and outreach.