UGA leaders and Alumni Awards honorees, pictured from left to right: Jill Walton, vice president for development and alumni relations; Corey Dortch, alumni association president; Robert Hoyt; Larry Benson; UGA President Jere W. Morehead; Nancy Juneau; Nancy Harman, mother of Young Alumni Award recipient Brian Harman; Jim Nalley; Rene Nalley; Street Nalley; and Clay Nalley. (Photo by Justin Evans Photography)

Terry alumni honored by UGA

The UGA Alumni Association honored Terry College alumnus Larry Benson (BBA ’74) with its 2026 Alumni Merit Award at its annual awards luncheon on April 2. The Jim Nalley (BBA ’65) and Renee Nalley family received the 2026 Family of the Year Award. Brian E Harmon (BBA ’11) won the Young Alumni Award. In addition to alumni, the association honored professor emeritus Rob Hoyt, the Terry College Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chair of Insurance, with the 2026 Faculty Service Award. 

UGA ILA students read a newly branded brochure for the city of Hartwell.

ILA students help build Hartwell’s new brand

Institute for Leadership Advancement students worked hand-in-hand with leaders in the City of Hartwell to create a marketing plan to highlight city’s new brand.

Photo Gallery: Honors Day 2026

The Terry College of Business Honors Day recognizes high achievers who demonstrate excellence in their academic endeavors. Graduate and undergraduate recipients of departmental awards were celebrated at this special ceremony held April 1 at the UGA Chapel.

Five Terry College Student of the year finalists pose on north campus

Finance and MIS leader selected as 2026 Student of the Year 

Finalists for the UGA Terry College of Business 2026 Student of the Year Award include, from left, Andre Akinyemi, Katie Fields, winner Dylan Van Saun, Sophia Beasley and Dominic Roselli.
Van Saun’s passion for financial markets and helping others understand them earned him the honor of being named the 2026 Student of the Year.

Elena Karahanna sits on stage at the chapel with Marshall Shepherd

Elena Karahanna explores technological transformation at UGA Charter Lecture

Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, the university’s newest Regents’ Professors, delivered the 2026 Charter Lecture, an event established in 1988 to honor the university’s founding ideals. The lecture highlighted how their research, spanning more than three decades, has progressed from theoretical inquiry to addressing urgent global challenges.

A child stares at a cell phone.

Is social media facing its “big tobacco” moment? 

Last week, U.S. juries delivered two verdicts holding Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta and YouTube liable for endangering physical and mental health. Whether or not the verdicts hold up under appeal, legal studies professors Lindsay Sain Jones and Tim Samples say the moment could mark a new approach to regulating digital services.

Stacy Campbell

ILA leader recognized for service learning

The UGA Office of Service Learning has recognized Stacy M. Campbell, Synovus Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA), with its Service-Learning Excellence Award. Service is a core component of the ILA experience. Campbell connects her students with partner agencies across Georgia, providing them with the opportunity to make a real-world impact with their coursework.

A group of UGA students pose while wading in a creek picking up litter.

Sustainable business in action

Sustainable business is more than making sure everyone has a recycling bin at their desk. From responsible marketing to building the back end of the circular economy, Terry College students are building the skills they need to ‘do good, while doing well’ in tomorrow’s economy.

Aiden Silverstein, Nikhil Gandhi, founders of Cracked Up, Soran Mechale, of goTeff and John D. (J.D.) Thomerson, of Pet Health Innovations pose with novelty checks at the Truist Pitch Deck.

Sports snack fueled by ancient grain wins Collegiate Great Brands grand prize 

Teff — an ancient grain that forms the foundation of Ethiopian cuisine — has fueled human achievement for at least 4,000 years. Now, University of Michigan MBA student Saron Mechale wants to turn it into a go-to fuel for sports performance. Her sports snack creation, goTeff, took home the $15,000 top prize at the University of Georgia Collegiate Great Brands Competition.

Elena headshot

UGA’s newest Regents’ Professors to deliver 2026 Charter Lecture

Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, two recently named Regents’ Professors at the University of Georgia, will share insights from their groundbreaking research at the 2026 Charter Lecture on March 25. The lecture begins at 11 a.m. in the Chapel and is open to the public.

Stephanie Stuckey: A Coming Back Story

Since the day she used her own money to buy Stuckey’s from investors in 2019, Stephanie Stuckey has worked ceaselessly to revive it

Allison O’Kelly: A Workplace Pioneer

When Allison O’Kelly BBA ’94 had her first child, she was working at Toys “R” Us and struggling to balance the demands of motherhood and working full time. Aiming to reduce her stress while remaining professionally competitive, she started an accounting firm, offering part-time and freelance work to local clients.

ILA students Emily Moseley and Hazel McQueen conduct a professional skills workshop at ESP.

ILA offers Joyristas key lessons in professional confidence

Whether your interviewing for a role at investment bank or a coffee shop, it’s important to know your strengths and how to talk about them with an employer. That’s the lesson ILA students recently shared with clients at Extra Special People during a student-led professional skills workshop.

Landmark chairman and CEO launches Real Estate Fund for UGA students

The Terry College will launch a new student-managed real estate investment fund in fall 2026, offering undergraduate students in the nation’s No. 2 publicly ranked Real Estate Program an opportunity to gain hands-on experience managing real capital.

Katherine Ireland guides two students through an analytics project.

Terry College’s analytics lab director helps students build analytics literacy

A former English major who transitioned into the world of linguistics and data science, Ireland joined the Terry College of Business in 2025 as the assistant director of the M. Douglas and V. Kay Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights. Now, as the college’s director for the Terry Analytics Lab, she is proving that analytics tools are for people who work with words and numbers alike.