University of Kentucky faculty member James Ziliak’s research on senior hunger was recently featured in The Washington Post. The article discusses recent trends in food insecurity for people over 60.
The study report finds that rates of food insecurity have remained persistently high following the Great Recession, and that the economic recovery's effects seem to be the weakest for older Americans. "There was no significant decline in seniors 'facing hunger,'" Ziliak said. "This rate has been stubbornly stuck."
Until now, no master of finance degree program existed in the state of Kentucky. That is changing this week as the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics officially launches its new professional Master of Science in Finance (MSF) degree.
Alexis Allen, Meike Eilert, and John Peloza recently had their paper titled "How Deviations From Performance Norms Impact Charitable Donations" accepted at the Journal of Marketing Research, a top journal in the marketing field. Congratulations to Alexis, Meike, and John!
Brian Bratten and David Hulse were awarded the Journal of the Accounting Taxation Association (JATA) Best Paper Award for their paper titled, “Retroactive tax legislation, reported earnings, and investors’ responses to earnings ‘surprises’: Evidence from R&D credit extensions,” at the AAA Annual Meeting in San Diego on August 7.
Brian Murtha’s paper, “Clustering, Knowledge Sharing, and Intrabrand Competition: A Multi-Year Analysis of an Evolving Franchise System,” (with Moeen Butt, Kersi Antia, and Vishal Kashyap) was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Marketing.
Dan Sheehan and Aaron Garvey each received annual awards this month from the department of Marketing & Supply Chain. Dan received the Teaching Excellence Award for 2017, and Aaron received the Research Excellence Award for 2017. Congratulations to both!
Several faculty and PhD students participated in the recent Academy of Management Annual Meetings in Atlanta, August 10-16.
Ji Youn (Rose) Kim received the CGIO Best Paper Award in International Corporate Governance from the International Management Division of the Academy.for her research: Xu, K., Kim, J., Withers, M. & Howard, M., "The evolution of board interlock network: A comparative study of U.S. and China."
The MBA Advisory Council at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics is a group of individuals that are vested in advancing the UK MBA program and the professional development of its students.
The University of Kentucky's One Year MBA program at the Gatton College of Business and Economics welcomes their new corporate sponsors to the built-in internship experience, called Project Connect. For 32 weeks, One Year MBA student teams are paired with companies to work on projects of importance to their corporation or organizatio
The MBA Center at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics recently hosted a successful, three-day certificate on Project Management which was open to the entire UK MBA student body, alumni and other partners of the program.
