When you throw a glass bottle in the recycling bin, what happens to it? Glass is notoriously hard to recycle, but student startup KLAW Industries has developed a way to turn those old bottles into a material used in concrete manufacturing.
It’s not easy being green. Businesses often need outside help to make their operations more environmentally sustainable.
Last spring, Georgia softball player Mary Wilson Avant was in the same boat as thousands of student-athletes across the country after learning their seasons were shuttered by the COVID-19 virus.
Despite increasing concern over the intrusion of algorithms in daily life, people may be more willing to trust a computer program than their fellow humans, especially if a task becomes too challenging, according to new research from data scientists at the University of Georgia.
A year ago last spring, childhood friends George Passantino and Ofek Arush had just launched their ready-to-drink, cold brew coffee company Quokka Brew. And then, the pandemic hit.
Terry’s Full-Time MBA Program and, for the first time, Business Analytics as a specialization were both ranked in the top 20 among public business schools in the latest graduate school rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
Growing up in Clarke County, Christina Kurian has been connected to the University of Georgia for most of her life.
For the second year in a row, the Terry College of Business management faculty is ranked first in the nation for its research productivity.
Knowing how friends and loved ones have felt cut off from each other this year gave University of Georgia student Nisha Kavalam a startup idea to help spread the good times again – one picnic at a time.
Cosmetics traditionally have been sold to women as a way to conceal flaws, but new research shows that marketing beauty brands as a creative medium for self-expression gets greater acceptance on social media, where word-of-mouth from beauty influencers reigns.
George “Tripp” Koenig of Atlanta puts boots on the ground when it comes to leading and inspiring. A University of Georgia senior, he spent six weeks over the past two summers in Quantico, Virginia, tackling the task of U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School.
It’s been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the ways we work and play upside down. For many Georgians, it’s been a year of lost wages, working from home and remote learning.
The Department of Marketing at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business is ranked No. 15 in the United States – and 10th among public universities in the U.S. – for research published in the two premier American Marketing Association journals.
Foundation Fellow Zakiyya Ellington came to UGA, in part for the big sports atmosphere—and in part for the travel associated with her fellowship. She’s studied at Oxford, and traveled to Tanzania, Morocco, Spain, France and Costa Rica.
A University of Georgia finance professor used the records of a Reconstruction-era bank to add fresh insights to the financial lives of newly emancipated African Americans, and how efforts to support them collapsed.
The University of Georgia’s campaign to create the John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair for Parkinson’s Research and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar position reached its goal of $4.5 million in private commitments, and the final contributor was the former U.S. Senator for whom the chair is named.
Even the most senior executives aren’t in charge all the time. At a doctor’s appointment or working out with a personal trainer, they are put in situations where they have very little authority at all.
Before he enrolled at the University of Georgia, or pursued his Ph.D. in economics, or helped to document redlining by U.S. creditors, Harold Black’s father had a saying that became a personal and professional guidepost Black could bank on.
For the second straight year LeaseQuery LLC, an Atlanta-based firm headed by Terry College alumnus George Azih (BBA ’03) and Chris Ramsey, topped the Bulldog 100 ranking of the fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni.
The work of Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander’s life is being honored with the creation of an award that will recognize faculty who promote a more diverse and inclusive community at the University of Georgia.
A study of women who were new mothers in the late 1970s found that those who were given longer, paid maternity leave lived healthier lives as they entered middle age.
Carter Marks is a junior business management and economics double major from St. Simons Island. This summer he served as an orientation leader—online.
During a distinguished academic career, Dr. Harold A. Black inspired thousands of students to study and understand financial institutions and the monetary system they support.
The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is its most valuable when the nation and our communities seem to be divided.