On Thursday, December 12, twenty-eight teams from the Fall 2019 Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp, run by the Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship, graduated after completing a 14-week program. The VACE Entrepreneur Bootcamp, now is in its 5th year, is a 14-week long intensive program where teams work through early business and revenue models, customer validation and refining pitches.
Professor Dan Sheehan's paper, “Isolating Price Promotions: The Influence of Promotional Timing On Promotion Redemption” was accepted for publication by the Journal of the Association of Consumer Research.
University of Kentucky long snapper Blake Best has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America first team. This is Best’s second Academic All-America award as he was named to the second team last season.
In the December edition of Simon Says, Simon looks back on another action-packed year at Gatton. This month, Simon got to do one of his favorite things — act as a roving reporter! This time he asked people around the college about their new year’s resolutions. We heard some very interesting responses. You might even hear a song!
Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents named University of Kentucky MBA and Gatton College of Business and Economics alum Dr. David McFaddin the interim president of Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) and assumes his leadership duties as of January 6th, 2020. Before being named interim president, Dr.
The University of Kentucky will celebrate its December graduates next week by turning the campus blue.
From Sunday, Dec. 15, through Sunday, Dec. 22, various buildings around campus will be lit with blue lights to celebrate the fall class of 2019. The ceremonies will take place at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at Rupp Arena.
Below are the UK buildings that will go blue:
Kentucky Volleyball middle blocker Leah Meyer was named a 2019 First Team College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-American, becoming the second UK volleyball player ever to be named a first teamer, joining Morgan Bergren in 2015.
A graduate transfer from Duke University, Meyer has a 4.0 grade-point average and is pursuing her Master in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics.
The Gatton College of Business and Economics has an elite opportunity, made possible by the generous contributions of the Morris Foundation and Nate Morris, CEO of Rubicon Global, to select a student for the Presidential Fellows Program at The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC).
Executives and University of Kentucky MBA alumni and students from UK HealthCare, Tempur-Sealy International, Matrix Design Group and the United States Air Force will lead a panel of speakers at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, in Room 399 of UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.
