A team from the Department of Management Information Systems — including associate professor Maric Boudreau, department head and C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration Gerald Kane, assistant professor Jiyong Park and lecturer John Rios — were awarded a $20,000 grant from the UGA Office of the President for their project “Leading Georgia’s E-Mobility Innovation: Informing Research and Decision-Making.”
The U.S. Department of State Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program awarded Jennifer Chapman, director of Terry’s International Business Programs and lecturer in the J.M. Tull School of Accounting, $33,000 to help launch the college’s first study away program in Uruguay.
J.M Tull School of Accounting Director Margaret Christ was one of 10 UGA faculty selected for the 2024-25 cohort of the university’s Women’s Leadership Fellows program. UGA established the fellowship in 2015 as part of the Women’s Leadership Initiative.
The National Science Foundation awarded Martin Gervais, professor in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics, $23,089 to investigate the Great Depression through the lens of the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Gervais also received a $10,500 Terry College Innovation Grant to help fund the study.
Akshat Lakhiwal and Aaron Schecter, assistant professors in the Department of Management Information Systems, received a $27,615 grant from the UGA Office of the President to pursue their project “Developing Applied Institutional Ethics for the Age of AI: Interdisciplinary Approaches.”
Laura Little, Chick-fil-A Distinguished Professor for Leadership Advancement in the Department of Management, was named a Distinguished Winner of the 2024 Award for Responsible Research in Management. The Fellows Group of the Academy of Management and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management presented the award in recognition of her 2023 paper “Sensemaking Through the Storm: How Postpartum Depression Shapes Personal Work-Family Narratives.”
Mike Pfarrer, associate dean for research and executive programs and C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Distinguished Chair of Business Administration in the Department of Management, was one of four UGA faculty selected as a fellow in the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program.
The European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists recognized associate professor of risk management and insurance Marc Ragin with the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award for his 2022 paper “Probability Weighting and Insurance Demand in a Unified Framework.”
Ian Schmutte, professor in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics, received a $179,996 grant from labor economics think tank Work Rise to fund a project investigating salary transparency in employment ads.
Erin Towery, the KPMG-Atlanta Partners’ and Employees’ Professor in the J.M. Tull School of Accounting, was appointed to a one-year post as a senior economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in Washington, D.C. She is the first accountant to be selected for such a post.