Teams of Terry College Management Information Systems and FinTech Certificate students spent Sept. 18-19 at UGA’s Studio 225 in an immersive learning experience created and hosted by Truist.
Category: Innovation
Finance and MIS junior Trey Wilson is a podcaster, a campus tour guide, president of the Black Business Student Association and is active in almost a dozen other student clubs. His goal is to make the most of his time at UGA. “It’s college,” he says. “Soak it all in, smile, and keep growing every day.”
Purpose Payment, a payment company launched by a team of Terry FinTech students, is launching an app to help support community causes and save local merchants card processing fees.
Terry Executive Education’s collaborative Sustainable Development Experience (SDX) program was recently honored with the Golden Helix Phoenix Award, presented by Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Georgia Life Sciences.
Fridgely — a fridge-mounted smart device designed by economics senior Gavin Gillespie to alert consumers before their perishables go bad — took home first prize at the University of Georgia’s 2025 Summer Design Sprint on Aug. 21.
SylCampus, a student organization service launched by two Terry students, took home the top prize at the UGA Summer Launch pitch contest on Aug. 7.
Ashley Galanti aims to develop a wearable smart wristband with a semiconductor chip that can detect nine pre-seizure compounds released as gases from the skin.
Kareem Elfoulie, a recent mechanical engineering graduate from Georgia Tech, created a noninvasive wearable that alerts caregivers when their senior loved ones need incontinence garments changed. He presented his Senior Shield to judges at the June 18 pitch contest, and they were impressed with his strategy for getting the wearable sensor approved for Medicare reimbursement.
The Terry College of Business will be one of the first business schools in the country to offer an undergraduate certificate in artificial intelligence for business when it launches the program this fall.
The insurance business looked a little different when Herman Terry graduated from the University of Georgia in 1939.