Collat School of Business News
Beta Alpha Psi named Superior Chapter
The UAB chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) opens a new website, an international accounting, finance and information systems honor society, has been named a 2023 Superior Chapter.
IS Tech Expo highlights artificial intelligence, networking with industry
More than 200 people filled the Medical Properties Trust Commons October 19 for the 2nd Annual IS Tech Expo at the UAB Collat School of Business. The event, which focused on the use of artificial intelligence in Birmingham’s tech community, connected business students with information systems professionals while raising $12,000 for student scholarships.
Application fee waived for UAB graduate business degree programs
Planning to start a graduate business degree program to take your career to the next level? Apply at no cost to the University of Alabama at Birmingham during October 16-27.
Yufei Zhang receives 2023 UAB President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Collat marketing professor Yufei Zhang, Ph.D. opens a new website , has been selected to receive the UAB President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for her exceptional accomplishments in teaching. She will be honored at a UAB ceremony later this fall.
New study spaces available at Collat
Students spoke, and we listened! The Collat School of Business has improved access to study spaces throughout our building, and students are already taking advantage of the converted and enhanced spaces. Whether you prefer to study in secluded silence or in a group, we’ve got you covered.
Collat welcomes new faculty starting Fall 2023
We are thrilled to have the following teacher-scholars join the Collat School of Business faculty team and support our vision of a renowned business school focused on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Student’s networking, student org involvement pays off with coveted internship
Collat junior Daniel Massie will be starting a highly competitive internship next summer at Stifel Investments, but he says he wouldn’t have gotten there without his network.
Alums aim to give Americans a taste of “West African excellence” with new startup
Olu Ogunbi, the son of two physicians, enrolled at UAB in 2009 with the goal of becoming a doctor. But after his first semester, he switched to marketing. “I have always been entrepreneurial and looking for ways to develop myself,” Ogunbi said. “At the time, UAB didn’t have an entrepreneurship major like it does now, and marketing seemed like the closest thing.”
Alumni Profile: Emily Pruett
Alumna Emily Pruett, who received her bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2007 and her MBA in 2008, was recently promoted to partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC. (PwC). She works in client services and in talent identification and development out of the international firm’s Nashville office.
Changing lives: New Collat dean finds purpose in education’s mission
A phrase on the UAB Collat School of Business website caught new Dean Christopher Shook’s attention the first time he saw it.
Transforming lives one student at a time.
Collat student named PCAOB Scholar
Accounting graduate student Dalia De Jesus Nolasco Ortega will receive a prestigious $10,000 scholarship after recently being named Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Scholar.
Collat students honor professors with teaching awards
UAB Collat School of Business students recently honored four professors with the second annual CSOB Teaching Excellence Awards. The teaching awards honor one professor in each academic department and in the graduate program and are voted on by Collat students.
Accounting major named Miss Alabama first runner-up
Emma Terry remembers watching the contestants of Miss Alabama from the audience. She recently got the chance to be one of them and finished first runner up for the crown.
Accounting professor appointed Sallie W. Dean Endowed Professor
Arline Savage, Ph.D., has been named the first Sallie W. Dean Endowed Professor of Accounting at the UAB Collat School of Business.
Jack’s tenure as business dean transforms school
As Eric P. Jack prepares to step down as dean opens a new website of the UAB Collat School of Business at the end of June, friends, colleagues, students, and business leaders have been reflecting on his tremendous impact and wishing him well in his well-earned retirement.
ID student earns prestigious scholarship to study in Spain
Industrial Distribution major William Coleman has been awarded the 2023 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship opens a new website, a prestigious scholarship that provides funds for students to study abroad while in college.
Economics student balances classes, political website
Eshan Pokhrel’s news organization, like many things, was born out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collat students raise money to feed central Alabama’s food insecure
The UAB Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi opens a new website is raising money for a “Feed the Funnel” event in which Collat School of Business students, faculty and staff will pack meals for those in need in central Alabama.
OD/MBA student selected for Schweitzer Fellowship
OD/MBA student Demetric Jones will be spending the next 13 months in service to the Birmingham-area Hispanic community through a prestigious Albert Schweitzer Fellowship opens a new website. Jones is part of UAB’s unique OD/MBA dual degree program, in which he’ll earn both a master of business administration and a doctorate of optometry concurrently.
Hundreds graduate from UAB Collat School of Business at Spring Commencement
More than 400 students from the Collat School of Business graduated during two spring semester commencement ceremonies Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29 at Bartow Arena.
Graduating students and their friends and family were celebrated at pre-commencement receptions in the Collat School of Business both days.