Welcoming the next generation of Bulldogs, celebrating a summer of adventure and accolades, and investigating what makes people cool and news articles popular |
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Real estate, economics and philosophy major Corey Straughter transferred to UGA as a junior and immediately started making the most of his time in Athens. His goal outside of class is to build a sense of warmth and familiarity for every student in the UGA dorms as a resident belonging assistant.
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The 2025 honorees of the University of Georgia’s 40 Under 40 include seven Terry College of Business graduates working in a range of fields, from financial services to professional football. |
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UGA Entrepreneurship Certificate graduate Ashley Galanti took full advantage of UGA’s innovation ecosystem to develop a smart wristband that alerts wearers to impending seizures by detecting nine pre-seizure compounds released as gases from the skin. |
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Terry College students traveled to Austria, Serbia and Hungary in June as part of an international business study away program exploring the changing face of the European economy. |
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David McCarthy in risk management and insurance, Brantly Callaway in economics, and management professors Daniel Gamache and Fadel Matta were promoted to endowed chairs and professorships on Aug. 1.
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Despite cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, new research from marketing’s Jinjie Chen found people’s definition of cool varied little whether they were in Chile, China, or California. |
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News readers often click on articles based on their topics, the behavior of fellow audience members, and whether the news site labels them as most-read or most-shared, according to research from marketing professor Tari Dagogo-Jack. |
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Terry College of Business friends and alumni gathered recently for the annual Tailgate with Terry and Tony in Atlanta. College football analyst and UGA alum Tony Barnhart gave his yearly prediction on the upcoming football season. |
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Jakhari Gordon grew up near Washington, D.C., and visited nearly a dozen college campuses during his senior year of high school. He found a home away from home in the C. Herman Terry Risk Management and Insurance Program. |
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MIS junior Malhar Sethia is one of 300 Terry students who helped Georgia businesses maximize their export markets through the UGA Small Business Development Center’s Export Georgia program. |
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In June, the Federal Reserve lifted a punitive market cap that slowed Wells Fargo’s growth since a 2018 investigation into fraudulent sales practices at the bank during the Great Recession. Finance professor Siddharth Vij was one of the few academics who studied the impact on the bank. Even though it was a temporary thing, I expect it to have permanent effects,” Vij told U.S. News & World Report. “That kind of once-in-a-century event they’ve missed out on. I think it will be hard to get that back.” Vij estimates that Wells Fargo lost out on about $400 billion in additional deposits during the seven years when the cap was in place.
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After conducting their multicultural study into the perceptions of cool, marketing professor Jinjie Chen and his co-authors were surprised by how similar people’s definitions were in different parts of the world, he told the host of WBUR’s Here and Now. “We actually sort of had the expectation that it would be different across different cultures,” Chen said. “Many things are different from one culture to another, but when the results got in ... overall and by and large, the six attributes held across the data we have across different countries.” The six universal keys to cool: being seen as extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open, and autonomous.
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