Life-changing moments have a way of finding a person, often when — or where — they’re least expected. For Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Bonney Shuman, an extraordinary career began in, of all places, a metro Atlanta Krispy Kreme. Call it sweet serendipity.
Valeria Brenner has helped hundreds of Instagram merchants ship thousands of packages since launching Thryft Ship. Now she has $10,000 to expand her reach.
When Kristen Dunning participated in her first UGA Entrepreneurship Idea Accelerator Program, she was a woman with sensitive skin, a knack for plants and a dream of selling soap to the masses.
Offbeat Media Group, an Atlanta-based digital influence and media company headed by a trio of Terry College graduates and a Grady College alum, took home top honors in the Bulldog 100 ranking of the fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni.
The University of Georgia announced a campus-wide Electric Mobility Initiative in January, with the goal of enhancing research, education and outreach opportunities in the high-growth, high-tech commercial sector.
Podcasting is one of the fastest-growing ways of communicating and, thanks to a partnership, there is a new studio on campus available to produce podcasts.
People have been making carpets for 5,000 years, so when Jay Henry explains that he’s the director of innovation for a company that manufactures carpets he sometimes gets a quizzical look.