The University of Kentucky’s Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship (VACE) is co-sponsoring the Launchpad Lex Speaker Series, an opportunity for Lexington area entrepreneurs, small businesses, and founders to come together to be inspired by building community and sharing stories.
The Graham Office of Career Management is hosting free workshops for students who are interested in commercial real estate. The partnership is an opportunity for students to work with Lee Webb, a Gatton alum and commercial real estate professional, on the Commercial Real Estate Internship and Pitch Competition every semester.
Walter “Wally” Ferrier, chair of and professor in the Department of Management in the Gatton College, co-authored a paper “Competitive Rationales: Beneath the Surface of Competitive Behavior” that was recently published in the Journal of Management. The study argues that the field of competitive dynamics can benefit from a more encompassing and nuanced portrayal of competitive interaction.
Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has prompted aggressive regulation by state and local governments. Ten states and two large countries adopted ENDS taxes between 2010 and 2019, and other federal, state, and local policies are pending.
When the University of Kentucky kicked off its 2021 football season against Louisiana-Monroe, the team was led by starting quarterback Will Levis, a student in the Master of Science in Finance Program (MSF) at the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
Aaron Roeschley’s paper titled “Do Managers Issue More Voluntary Disclosure When GAAP Limits Their Reporting Discretion in Financial Statements? was accepted for publication by the Journal of Accounting Research.
We welcome our students back for the fall 2021 semester! You'll get to meet our incoming freshmen from the Gatton Welcome Orientation and see highlights from the Tokyo Olympics to see who placed gold! Join us this football season as we host fun alumni tailgates for every
A partnership among the City of Lexington, the University of Kentucky, Commerce Lexington and Coastal Cloud announced the creation of a new UK Salesforce Consultancy Incubator Program yesterday.
As part of the new program, Coastal Cloud will train students, recent college graduates and new or aspiring Salesforce administrators to become effective Salesforce consultants. The Salesforce company creates digital platforms for customer relationship management, assisting businesses with marketing, sales, commerce, service and IT support.
Research Associate Michael T. Childress and Associate Professor Michael W. Clark join 43 other authors to develop a new book, “Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 Pandemic." It is a first volume in a new series about the study of science communication in times of crisis and features research and analysis from University of Kentucky faculty. See WUKY story for more details.
A research study from a first-year summer project has evolved into a nationally recognized research paper for Evisa Bogdani, a Ph.D. candidate at the Von Allmen School of Accountancy at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.
