
Faculty Member
Office:
Management, Marketing & Supply Chain Management
College of Business
CarinLightner-Laws@clayton.edu
Ph D, Operations Research- Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2008
MS, Operations Research- Mathematics, North Carolina State University, 2002
BSc, Applied Mathematics, North Carolina Central University, 1999
Other, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009
2023-2024 Faculty Champion of the Year, CSU Career Services, Award, 2024
2024 Student Organization of the Year Award, CSU Student Life, Award, 2024
Outstanding Community Service Award, CSU/ Supply Chain Roundtable, Award, 2023
Outstanding Program/Activity of the Year, CSU/ Supply Chain Roundtable, Award, 2023
2023 Faculty Advisor of the Year, Supply Chain Roundtable, Award, 2023
Carin Lightner-Laws, Iryna Hayduk, The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Grades and Productivity, Interactive Learning Environments – April 2025
Constance Lightner, Carin Lightner-Laws, A New Day in Higher Ed: HyFlex Universities, Interactive Learning Environments/Taylor and Francis – February 2024
Tameka Womack, Carin Lightner-Laws, , AN EXPLORATION OF THE VALUE CHAIN AND ISSUES DURING COVID-19 VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, Quarterly Review of Business Disciplines – August 2021
Constance Lightner, Carin Lightner-Laws, A blended model: simultaneously teaching a Quantitative Course Traditionally, Online and Remotely, Interactive Learning Environments/Taylor and Francis – January 2016
Vikas Agrawal, Constance Lightner, Carin Lightner-Laws, Neal Wagner, A bi-criteria evolutionary algorithm for a constrained multi-depot vehicle routing problem, Soft Computing/ Springer – September 2017
Lydia Hall, Craig Hill, Carin Lightner-Laws, Kamran Moghaddam, Keith Miller, STW-Technic Supply Chain Improvements, STW-Technic, Private, 17500, Funded – June 2021 to November 2021
Carin Lightner-Laws, Iryna Hayduk, Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Grades and Productivity , SE Informs 2023, Informs – October 2023
Constance Lightner, Carin Lightner-Laws, Tameka Womack, A Digital Reckoning: COVID-19's Impact on Universities' Technological Infrastructure, SE INFORMS 2021, SE INFORMS – October 2021
Carin Lightner-Laws, Academic Connection: Educating Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Professionals, ASCM CONNECT Annual Conference, Association for Supply Chain Management – September 2022
Carin Lightner-Laws, Constance Lightner, Joie Hain, Anita Whiting, CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING ONLINE AND HYFLEX COURSES, USG Teaching and Learning Conference 2024, USG – March 2024
Carin Lightner-Laws, Constance Lightner, The New Normal: HyFlex Universities, USG Teaching and Learning Conference 2023, USG – March 2023
College, Center for Supply Chain Management, Administrative Assignment, Other – January 2024 to Present
College, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Committee Member – Spring 2017 to Present
University, University Hearing Panel, Committee Member – August 2017 to Present
University, Student Fees Advisory Board, Committee Member – Fall 2023 to Present
College, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Committee Chair – Fall 2019 to August 2023
Committee Chair, COUNCIL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS, International – November 2024 to Present
Committee Member, Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), International – December 2020 to Present
Reviewer, Journal Article, Decision Science Journal of Innovative Education, International – January 2016 to Present
Reviewer, Journal Article, Intelligent Systems with Applications Journal Spring 2020 to Present
Reviewer, Journal Article, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics Journal, International – January 2017 to Present
Committee Member, Delta Sigma Theta- Delta Academy, National – Spring 2022 to Present