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This month, Simon shares his summer reading list, including several interesting books for summer beach reading. He also introduces several outstanding faculty and staff members who celebrate great achievements this year, discussing their research, teaching and learning – and a few things they do for fun! 




University of Kentucky MBA alum and Chief Medical Officer at UK Healthcare, Dr. Phillip Chang recently accepted the Gage Award for Quality on behalf of the approximately 9,000 people of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals that represent UK Healthcare. 


Jenny Minier and Alison Davis presented an overview of the economic regions of Kentucky at the Leadership Kentucky orientation in Berea on June 20.


Adib Bagh presented “ Equity-Efficiency Tradeoffs in International Bargaining ” (with Josh Edernigton) at a conference in  memory of Marine Quinzii on June 3 in Davis, California.


Adib Bagh and Yoko Kusunose's paper ˜ On The Economic Value of Signals ” is forthcoming in The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics.


Alison Davis (PI, joint appointment with Economics), Jenny Minier (Co-PI), and Michael Clark (Co-PI, Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) received a $500,000 grant for their project “The Importance of Access to Health Care in Rural Economic Development” from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Additional Co-PIs include Christina Studts and Jennifer Hunter of UK and Thomas Harris of University of Nevada-Reno.


Felipe Benguria's paper (with Alan M. Taylor,) "After the Panic: Are Financial Crises Demand or Supply Shocks?


In today’s data-driven world, business success demands leveraging and harnessing data to tell compelling stories.


The Gatton College of Business and Economics officially welcomes the 2019/20 One Year MBA cohort to the University of Kentucky. The collective class brings a diverse set of personal and professional experiences along with a high achievement of academic excellence. Some highlights of the full class profile include: