illustration of Rube Goldberg machine making credit scores

How social media posts could affect credit scores

What does your SAT score mean for your ability to pay off a car loan?  What does your Facebook feed say about your chances of landing a mortgage? The answers: More than you think. 

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Label limitations

Taste. Price. Convenience. Grocery shopping can be a balancing act, but in the last two decades, many companies and governments instituted front-of-box or front-of-shelf nutrition labels to help shoppers make better decisions. But do they work?

Marisa Pagnatarro speaks with students in Amos Hall

Pagnattaro named UGA vice president for instruction

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, a distinguished scholar and academic leader who holds the university’s highest teaching honor, has been named vice president for instruction at the University of Georgia, effective June 1. 

The 2022 Gala award winners

Three honored at annual Alumni Awards and Gala

With a celebratory theme of “Back to Business” and an assembly of more than 700, the Terry College Alumni Awards and Gala returned in triumphant style April 30 to the Intercontinental Buckhead hotel in Atlanta.

Cecil Cooke

Cecil Cooke turns legendary connections into life-changing opportunities

There’s no telling how many names “it” holds, and Cecil Cooke isn’t one to entertain guesses. Then again, some have no idea what “it” is. “It’s funny,” Cooke says with a grin, “when I talk to students about it, they want to know: ‘What is a Rolodex?’”

Bonney Shuman at her home

Bonney Shuman shares lessons from a remarkable life in business

Life-changing moments have a way of finding a person, often when — or where — they’re least expected. For Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Bonney Shuman, an extraordinary career began in, of all places, a metro Atlanta Krispy Kreme. Call it sweet serendipity.

Elise Karinshak

UGA’s Elise Karinshak named 2022 Goldwater Scholar

UGA Honors student Elise Karinshak is among 417 undergraduates across the nation to be recognized as 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholars, earning the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences.

Tope Atowona

Calendly founder learned to persevere through trial and error

While a student at the University of Georgia, Tope Awotona went door to door selling home alarm systems. The Calendly CEO and founder remembers selling three systems on his first day on the job, making $500. But his fast start didn’t last — he went the rest of the week without another sale.