The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Georgia Life Sciences recognized UGA Executive Education with the Golden Helix Phoenix Award for the Sustainable Development Experience (SDX) program developed for Boehringer Ingelheim. In addition to Terry Executive Education administrators, the award honored instructors, including associate dean for research and executive programs Mike Pfarrer, marketing professor Neil Bendle, Sara and Dan Boyd Professor of economics Meghan Skira, Institute for Leadership Advancement lecturer Onyedika Ekwerike and MBA lecturer Nathan Stuck.
Margaret Christ, director of the J.M. Tull School of Accounting and J.M. Tull Chair in Accounting, and Tina Carpenter, Dan Smith Professor of Accounting, received the 2025 Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award at the American Accounting Association’s summer conference in Chicago on Aug. 4. The award recognized the impact of Christ and Carpenter’s 2021 paper, “The Data Analytics Journey: Interactions Among Auditors, Managers, Regulation, and Technology,” published in Contemporary Accounting Research.
The National Science Foundation granted Martin Gervais, professor in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics, $86,345 to fund a study of consumer expenditures during and after World War II. The goal is to create a database of Census Bureau records of consumer spending. This period was marked by growth in household incomes and a decrease in income inequality but has been understudied due to a lack of robust data.
The Brookings Institution granted Tobias Huber, assistant professor in the C. Herman Terry Risk Management and Insurance Program, $5,000 to launch his study, “Hurricane catastrophe models: What they tell us about current climate risk and how insurers use them to set prices.”
Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth, received a $42,596 grant from the Sea Island Company to update the Selig Center’s study of Sea Island in Glynn County, Georgia.
John Hund, associate professor of finance, was invited to present at the 12th annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation hosted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in May in Washington, D.C. He presented his paper, “The Rise of Investor Sophistication and the Decline of Underwriting Profits in the Municipal Bond Market.”
Marc Ragin, associate professor in the C. Herman Terry Risk Management and Insurance Program, will serve as the primary investigator at UGA for a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant that will fund the Center for Innovation in Risk, Catastrophes and Decisions (CIRCAD). The project is an interdisciplinary effort involving the insurance industry and multiple faculty from UGA and Duke University.
The Rockwool Foundation granted assistant professor of finance Daniel Rettl $82,099 to study the long- and short-term consequences of seasonal illnesses. Rettl studies the impact of employee health on firm health.
The Spencer Educational Foundation and the Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association granted Rodney Smith, associate director of the C. Herman Terry Risk Management and Insurance Program, $33,646 to develop a course on alternative risk treatment. The graduate and undergraduate courses will cover self-insurance, multinational insurance and excess and surplus lines.
Ralph E. Steuer, Sanford Family Distinguished Chair of Business in the Department of Finance, received the Richard Price Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the 12th International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management. The award was for contributions to the theory and application of data science.