Elena Karahanna sits on stage at the chapel with Marshall Shepherd

Elena Karahanna explores technological transformation at UGA Charter Lecture

Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, the university’s newest Regents’ Professors, delivered the 2026 Charter Lecture, an event established in 1988 to honor the university’s founding ideals. The lecture highlighted how their research, spanning more than three decades, has progressed from theoretical inquiry to addressing urgent global challenges.

A child stares at a cell phone.

Is social media facing its “big tobacco” moment? 

Last week, U.S. juries delivered two verdicts holding Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta and YouTube liable for endangering physical and mental health. Whether or not the verdicts hold up under appeal, legal studies professors Lindsay Sain Jones and Tim Samples say the moment could mark a new approach to regulating digital services.

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UGA’s newest Regents’ Professors to deliver 2026 Charter Lecture

Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, two recently named Regents’ Professors at the University of Georgia, will share insights from their groundbreaking research at the 2026 Charter Lecture on March 25. The lecture begins at 11 a.m. in the Chapel and is open to the public.

Dorothy Leidner, AIS President, and (far right) past president Andrew Burton-Jones congratulate Jerry Kane (center)

Terry professor named AIS Fellow

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) named Terry College of Business professor and department head Jerry Kane an AIS Fellow.