John Campbell, the Herbert E. Miller Chair in Financial Accounting and head of the Department of Finance, is one of 13 new members on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC). The FASAC advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board on strategic and technical issues, project priorities and other matters that affect standard-setting.
Finance professors Gregory Eaton and Rik Sen and management professor Gabriel Sala received grants totaling $48,000 to fund their individual research projects, provided through Terry’s research seed grant initiative.
Randy Groomes, director of professional and community engagement, received the UGA President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award on Jan. 19. The award recognizes students, faculty, staff and community members dedicated to fostering goodwill through civic engagement.
The Georgia Ports Authority awarded Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth, $63,000 to study of the economic impact of the ports in Savannah and Brunswick on the state’s 159 counties and $64,000 to study the local impact of the Appalachian Regional Port near Dalton and Blue Ridge Connector near Gainesville.
The Association for Information Systems named Jerry Kane an AIS Fellow in recognition of his outstanding research, teaching and service contributions to the field of information systems throughout their careers. Kane, the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Distinguished Chair in Business Administration, also serves as head of Terry’s Department of Management Information Systems.
The University System of Georgia named Elena Karahanna, UGA Distinguished Research Professor and C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Distinguished Chair in Business Administration in the MIS Department, a Regents’ Professor. UGA’s highest professorial honor recognizes exemplary faculty whose scholarship or creative activity is recognized both nationally and internationally.
Akshat Lakhiwal, assistant professor of management information systems, received a $7,500 grant from the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence to fund his research project, “Responsible causal AI: Reproducible designs, testable mechanisms.”
Finance professors Ugur Lel, Jeff Netter and Annette Poulsen won the 2025 Eastern Finance Association Readers’ Choice Best Paper Award for “Dual-Class Shares and Firm Valuation: Market-Wide Evidence from Regulatory Events,” published in The Financial Review.
Benjamin (Ben) C. Whipple, a professor in the J.M. Tull School of Accounting, was named the Denny Beresford Professor of Accounting. The professorship is named for Beresford, who chaired the Financial Accounting Standards Board, served as the Ernst & Young Executive Professor of Accounting at Tull and was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame.