
New research shows that the opioid related public health crises can fuel economic disinvestment even in the non-depressed areas. An exodus of innovation and innovators makes economic recovery harder than originally thought.

Over the last year, teams of University of Georgia students brought together by the Terry College of Business Office of Professional and Community Engagement worked with leaders at the City of Hope Cancer Treatment Center in Atlanta to help ensure every patient has the data-driven health support they need.

A former English major who transitioned into the world of linguistics and data science, Ireland joined the Terry College of Business in 2025 as the assistant director of the M. Douglas and V. Kay Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights. Now, as the college’s director for the Terry Analytics Lab, she is proving that analytics tools are for people who work with words and numbers alike.