Student Spotlights
2012 Spotlights
Adam LaHaie
Adam LaHaie’s self-made Terry career—Outstanding Collegiate Marketer, Terry Digital Marketing Series-creator, UGA Student Employee of the Year, numerous internships—is the quintessential roadmap for success.
Alex Pirie
In the college's first attempt, four Terry students won first place at the Institute Management Accountants National Case Competition in Las Vegas. What's more impressive—they did it without faculty assistance. What're the odds?
Shannon Vreeland
Olympic gold medalist Shannon Vreeland is a reluctant celebrity and a standout student in UGA’s Honors program.
Kamilah Gray
Gray, the founding member of Terry’s Professional Entertainment and Sports Association, has high hopes of being a chief marketing officer of a major film studio or television network one day.
Emily Kopp
Kopp will graduate with degrees in economics, journalism, and international affairs — and this summer a fellowship from UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research will give her the opportunity to investigate how stricter laws governing undocumented workers will affect Georgia’s economy.
Charles Simpson
Simpson applied his ad agency experience with his marketing coursework to stitch together a marketing plan that will help Georgia’s carpet capital of Dalton recast its image and recruit highly skilled talent to Whitfield County.
Patrick Fitzmaurice
From working with MATHCOUNTS Outreach and the Garnett Ridge Boys & Girls Club in Athens to traveling to Oxford University to spending a weekend in south Georgia as a Deer Run Fellow, Patrick Fitzmaurice found more than he ever dreamed possible at UGA.
2011 Spotlights
Haley Donahue
After a rude awakening to the realities of college, Donahue found the motivation to take on new challenges. And for this Terry Ambassador, the end of the story is better than she ever imagined.
Tim Ludwick
As MBA Finance Club president, Ludwick organized a three-day trip to New York City for first-year MBA students to get more familiar with what career options they might have in corporate finance.
Blake Mitchell
After he graduates in December, Mitchell hopes to use his academic training in mass media arts and business and his two summers interning in Los Angeles to fuel his dream of making films.
Trinton Sturdivant
A highly touted football player, Sturdivant’s academic side has flourished at Terry, where he is set to graduate in December with a double major in finance and management.
Chris Sanders
Elected chapter president as a sophomore, Sanders made all of his hard work on behalf of the Society for Management Information Systems look deceptively easy.
Jason Scwartz
Trolling the UGA Career Center’s job board sparked a chain reaction that turned a summer internship for Jason Schwartz into a full–time job with Marathon Petroleum after graduation.
Adria Thorington
Combining her interests in business and art history, Adria Thorington won a scholarship to study abroad in Florence, Italy, where she took courses in business and explored a city known for its art.
Trey Sinyard
With a spectrum of public service under his belt and a double major in biology and banking & finance on the horizon, Trey Sinyard looks to bring his love for mankind to the healthcare sector.
Sara Diehl
If campus tour guide Sara Diehl is the first impression a visitor or prospective student has of the campus, they surely will return. The Terry Ambassador loves UGA … and Athens.
Ken Williams
Add Ken Williams (MBA ’11), who won top honors at a business plan competition between UGA, Georgia Tech and Emory, to those preaching the gospel of the Terry Entrepreneurship Program.
2010 Spotlights
Phillip Mote
Among his many UGA accomplishments, Phillip Mote founded Mathcounts Outreach, which won the “Best New Organization” in 2009–2010.
C. Blake McDaniel
C. Blake McDaniel has studied abroad in the Netherlands, Germany and China. This year, he will participate in an externship program with the Dubai Judiciary in the United Arab Emirates.
Anne Marie Pippin
JD/MBA candidate Anne Marie Pippin spent her summer hunting energy savings as a Climate Corps fellow interning with Bank of America in Charlotte.
Halina Maladtsova
Immediately after she graduates from Terry’s Tull School of Accounting, Halina Maladtsova will become the seventh Terry alum in the past nine years to walk the hallowed halls as an intern in FASB’s prestigious Post-Graduate Technical Assistant (PTA) program.
Jacqueline Dement
Senior Jacqueline Dement has shared her energy and enthusiam with football fans, cancer survivors, prospective students and members of the Boys and Girls Club. After graduation, she will put her experience to work at Ernst &Young.
Elizabeth Schenck
Creating a music showcase in Athens without experience takes skill. Selling a rock and country-infused town on underground hip-hop takes guts. Elizabeth Schenck displayed both to make H.E.R. Hip-Hop a success.
Charisse Price
Charisse Price is one of only 45 people nationwide to be selected this year to participate in the prestigious, 14-month National Urban Fellows leadership development program.
2009 Spotlights
Akin Adebowale
Music Business student Akin Adebowale is already immersed in the music industry, thanks to Sound-Exchange VP Bryan Calhoun (BBA '92), who has given him the opportunity to design online media for the likes of Kanye West and Lil Wayne.
Christian Hyatt
MIS professor Mark Huber and rising senior Christian Hyatt were the key players involved in revamping Washington County's web portal this summer. Huber assessed the county's needs and recruited a 10-student team to complete the job. Hyatt served as the project manager and liaison for the county and the students.
Leah Wilson
Wilson placed second out of 106 students who qualified for the National Collegiate Sales Competition in March. She and teammate Sara Andrzejewski finished one point shy of first-place Ohio University in the team phase.
Bryan Davis
Senior Honors student Bryan Davis has accepted a year-long postgraduate technical assistantship with the Financial Accounting Standards Board before he begins his career with Ernst & Young in 2010.
Susan Guo
Looking for a future CPA who provides business consulting services and has experience researching terrorism? MAcc candidate and Leonard Scholar, Susan Guo, fits the bill.
2008 Spotlights
Katherine Cochrane
Katherine Cochrane used her skills as a photographer and interest in real estate to create an online business specializing in graphic design services and interactive virtual tours.
Brad Brizendine
Brad Brizendine is part of the leadership team at Athens PBJs, which dispenses both food and friendship to homeless people in Athens-Clarke County.
Jessica Van Parys
Van Parys was a major contributor to a Terry study on the impact of the new writing portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. She presented the research team's findings at a national finance association conference.
Ping Ma
Ma, a senior from Beijing, has brought new leadership to the Asian Children Mentoring Program.
Eric Tonn
Senior Eric Tonn visited 23 different colleges before he decided to attend UGA. He said the deciding factors were UGA's combination of academics, social life, football, and weather.
Kevin Killips
Kevin Killips credits Terry marketing professor Kevin Ellis with helping him prepare for a national competition in which he finished third and won $1,000.
2007 Spotlights
Balaji Narain
At a 2007 UGA conference on Jimmy Carter's presidency, Balaji Narain delivered a three-minute presentation that analyzed Carter's economic policies.
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