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Dr. Carin Lightner-Laws

Faculty Member


Office:
Management, Marketing & Supply Chain Management
College of Business
CarinLightner-Laws@clayton.edu

Biography

Education

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

Awards and Honors

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

Intellectual Contributions

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

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

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

Presentations

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

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

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

Service to the Profession

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

Service to the Community

Committee Member, Delta Sigma Theta- Delta Academy, National –  Spring 2022 to Present

Teaching Interest

Research Interest