Matthew Bonds (PhD ’03), an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, holds PhDs in economics and ecology from UGA. The UGA Graduate School honored him on Oct. 23 with its 2025 Alumni of Distinction Award.
Tag: economic development
A new health marketing strategy using peer health influencers and cell phones in India was able to almost triple the number of rural Indian women who received cervical cancer screening. Researchers feel the same tactics could be used globally in health promotion campaigns.
Management Information Systems junior Malhar Sethia was one of 300 Terry students who helped Georgia businesses maximize their export markets as part of the UGA Small Business Development Center’s Export Georgia internship program.
Graduate students gained the attention of Governor Brian Kemp when they worked with artists and leaders in Winterville to create a blueprint for arts-based economic development. Their framework will be used to help other small towns take advantage of Georgia’s growing reputation as a home for creative industries.
A burgeoning population and sustained job growth will keep Georgia’s economy growing in 2025 — just a bit more slowly than in 2024.
Corruption is damaging communities’ ability to participate in the global economy, says new research from the Terry College.
Terry College graduate students gained first-hand experience of a intentional, working creative ecosystem when they toured Trilith Studios.
The Georgia Bulldog Angel Network held its inaugural meeting in September at the UGA Terry College of Business Executive Education Center in Atlanta. Sixty or so entrepreneurs, investors and fund managers across Atlanta met to share coffee and conversation and hear from up-and-coming founders. “We’re excited to be here and share what we’ve been doing […]
Terry management Associate Professor Susan Cohen’s early interest in innovation led her to study startups and how startup accelerators foster new ideas, new products and success.
Mark Anthony Thomas (BBA ’01) is CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee, a consortium of private sector leaders in and around the city focused on economic development. A gifted leader in urban planning, Thomas is now embarking on perhaps his greatest professional challenge.