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• Georgia’s Economy, Like the Nation’s, Will Hold Steady in 2026

  Features, December 11, 2025

  Georgia’s economy will see growth slowing to about 1.5% in 2026. That slow rate of growth, along with some economic headwinds facing the nation, will keep the risk of a recession at an elevated level next year.

• Marketing Researchers Converge in Athens to Develop Research Plan, Definition for “Sustainable Marketing”

  Features, June 13, 2023

  More than 100 marketing researchers from across the U.S. converged on the University of Georgia campus June 5th-7th to share research into sustainable marketing practices, develop a better understanding of sustainable marketing and build a road map for research moving forward.

• Terry College: America’s Economy Continued to Grow & Diversify While Recovering from COVID-19

  News, June 12, 2023

• Three Terry College Faculty Members Named to Endowed Professorships

  News, June 02, 2023

• Terry College: Are Robots Wrecking the Workplace?

  News, May 23, 2023

• UGA Startup Wins $135,000 Investment at Rice University Entrepreneurship Competition

  News, May 19, 2023

• UGA Entrepreneurship’s Kickstart Fund Closes Year Marked by Branching Out, Planning Growth

  News, May 17, 2023

• Terry Students Work with Athens Officials to Support Creative Economy

  News, May 02, 2023

• Ox Sox Translates Foot Funk into $10,000 at UGA Next Top Entrepreneur Contest

  News, April 24, 2023

• A Modern Source for Classic Car Parts Wins UGA Entrepreneurship’s Idea Accelerator

  News, April 13, 2023

• SWAKE Cosmetics Sweeps Collegiate Great Brands Competition

  News, March 27, 2023

• ThriveWorx Founder: Knowing Your Core Values

  News, March 22, 2023

• Terry’s Student Managed Investment Fund Hosts Finance Students from Around the country for Stock Pitch Competition

  Features, March 22, 2023

  Finance students from as far away as the University of Massachusetts, Princeton University and the University of Texas-Austin converged at the Terry College of Business for the ninth annual Stock Pitch Competition in February.

• Leadership Dawgs Turn Leadership Development Training into Real-world Impact

  News, March 15, 2023

• UGA Idea Accelerator Boosts Plan to Help Homeless Students

  News, March 08, 2023

• Terry Trailblazers Point to Purpose, Authenticity as Keys to Building Inclusive and Productive Workplace Culture

  Features, March 01, 2023

  For the four Terry College alumni recognized as 2023 Terry Trailblazers, achieving success in their careers isn’t a reward for the hard work and dedication they’ve put into their jobs. It’s a call to action, a responsibility to create the community they needed when they were starting out.

• Thryft Ship Delivers Plan to Solve More Shipping Woes While Growing Shipping Startups Revenue

  News, February 22, 2023

• Invesco CEO Urges Students to Stick to Their Values and Stay Curious

  Features, February 16, 2023

  What do you learn in 30 years of management? You have to keep learning. In 30 years of corporate management, you can learn a lot — if you’re open to it. For Marty Flanagan, president and CEO of Invesco, leading a company is an exercise of curiosity and self-reflection, he told University of Georgia students gathered in the UGA Chapel on Feb. 13th.

• Terry Trailblazers Returning to Campus on February 23

  News, February 06, 2023

• Terry College Students Help Georgia Companies Launch International Plans

  News, January 12, 2023

• Terry College of Business Presents 2022 Outstanding Faculty Awards

  News, January 11, 2023

• Passport Terry Scholarships Help Students Experience Business without Borders

  News, December 21, 2022

• Georgia Economic Outlook: State is in for a Mild, Short Recession

  Features, December 12, 2022

  While Georgia’s economy made a near-record recovery from the COVID-19 recession in 2022, tighter monetary policy and energy price shocks will likely trigger a mild and brief economic slowdown in 2023.

• UGA Music Business Program Hosts Third Artists’ Rights Symposium

  News, December 01, 2022

• Markets Lab Director's Passion for Finance Helps his Students Forge Paths on Wall Street and Beyond

  News, November 30, 2022

• UGA Alumna DeRetta Rhodes Crafts a Championship Mindset Through Authenticity, Trust

  News, November 17, 2022

• UGA Study Offers New Perspective on the 2008 Housing Crash

  News, November 04, 2022

• General Motors Partners with Terry MIS Students to Launch Electric Vehicle Revolution

  News, November 03, 2022

• Study: Private Equity Firms Turn Profits by Boosting Small Businesses

  News, October 31, 2022

• Tull School of Accounting Professors Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chairs

  News, October 26, 2022

• Ox Sox Takes Home UGA Idea Accelerator Top Prize

  News, October 17, 2022

• UGA Study Offers New Perspective on the 2008 Housing Crash

  News, September 30, 2022

• Entrepreneurship Researcher Seeking to Find HOPE Scholarship’s Effect on New Business Creation

  News, September 27, 2022

• Report: ‘Service with a smile’ Costs More Than You Think

  News, September 21, 2022

• Four Terry Professors Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chairs

  News, September 15, 2022

• Terry College Has Seven Top 20-ranked Majors by U.S. News and World Report

  News, September 14, 2022

• Terry Researchers Secure $80,000 Grant to Bring Big Data Tools to Social Science

  News, September 02, 2022

• Study: Wellness Programs Help Employees and Their Companies

  News, June 08, 2022

• Study: How Social Media Posts Could Affect Credit Scores

  News, May 19, 2022

• Clean Beauty Biz Gently Soap Wins Again, This Time at Collegiate Great Brands Competition

  News, April 18, 2022

• Terry College Names New Director of Executive Education Program

  News, February 04, 2022

• Student Sustainability Group Helping Athens Businesses

  Features, April 16, 2021

  It’s not easy being green. Businesses often need outside help to make their operations more environmentally sustainable.

• UGA Study: ‘Power Fluctuations’ Lead to Better People Skills at Work

  News, February 26, 2021

• Georgia’s Choppy Rebound from COVID Recession Smooths Out in 2021

  Features, December 04, 2020

  The COVID-19 economic recession is very likely over in Georgia, but the state still faces a hard slog to reach a full recovery, according to a new forecast from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business.

• Georgia Economic Outlook for 2021 Set for December 3rd

  Features, December 01, 2020

  Economic forecasters from the University of Georgia and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will provide essential insights for these uncertain times at this year’s Georgia Economic Outlook. For the first time in the program’s 38-year history, the event will be hosted virtually and streamed on YouTube.

• UGA Study: Each College Graduate Adds $2M to Georgia’s GDP

  Features, November 13, 2020

  Georgians have long viewed higher education as the fastest path to a brighter future, but new research shows how college graduates also fuel the state’s economic engine.

• ThryftShip Lands $2,500 UGA Idea Accelerator Prize

  News, October 26, 2020

• UGA Student-run Fund Kickstarts Student Entrepreneurs

  News, June 08, 2020

• UGA Students Available to Help Small Businesses

  News, June 04, 2020

• What 2020 Stimulus Plan Can Do for Economy

  Features, April 01, 2020

  The U.S. Congress has passed a $2 trillion emergency relief bill that will expand unemployment insurance, provide $1,200 stimulus checks in emergency financial relief to most American adults and provide life preservers to distressed businesses impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic. The bill, touted as the largest economic stimulus package in U.S. history, was passed by the U.S. Senate and U.S. House this week and is signed by the president.

• University of Georgia is Marshaling its Resources to Battle Farmer Stress

  News, February 21, 2020

• UGA Viticulture Researcher Receives 40 under 40 Recognition from Fruit Growers News and Vegetable Growers News

  News, December 18, 2019

• CAES Hosts Global Food Security Summit

  News, November 20, 2019

• UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to Host Global Food Security Summit on November 8th

  News, October 28, 2019

• Former United Nations World Food Programme Director to Deliver 2019 D.W. Brooks Lecture

  News, October 23, 2019

• Trial Gardens at UGA Wrap up Summer Season by Announcing the 2019 Classic City Award Winners

  News, October 09, 2019

• CAES Alumni Association Recognizes Outstanding College Alumni on October 4th

  News, October 01, 2019

• UGA CAES Launches Fourth Semester of Live from the Lab

  News, September 12, 2019

• Help Needed with Great Georgia Pollinator Census August 23rd-24th at UGA-Athens

  News, August 16, 2019

• UGA Extension Training Helps Keep Georgia’s Produce Safe

  News, July 30, 2019

• UGA Peanut Researchers Win Accolades for International Impact

  News, July 22, 2019

• Brent Marable Selected as 2019 President of the UGA CAES Alumni Board

  News, July 10, 2019

• University of Georgia’s Katrien Devos Recognized as Fellow of Crop Science Society of America

  News, June 27, 2019

• Summer Open Houses Highlight Sustainable Agriculture Research at UGA

  News, June 17, 2019

• Advancing Georgia’s Leaders in Agriculture & Forestry Selects 2019-2020 Leadership Class

  News, May 30, 2019

• UGA Extension Master Gardeners Celebrate with Program’s Founder

  News, April 23, 2019

• 25 Agricultural Leaders Graduate from UGA’s Advancing Georgia’s Leaders in Agriculture and Forestry

  News, April 15, 2019

• Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame Renovation Celebrates Legacy and Future of Agriculture

  News, April 05, 2019

• Herbal Coffee Supplement Rally Coffee Takes Top Prize at UGA’s 2019 FABricate Entrepreneurial Competition

  News, March 29, 2019

• Atlanta’s Beautiful Briny Sea Awarded Grand Prize in UGA’s Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest

  News, March 21, 2019

• State's Top Food Products Make the Final Round of University of Georgia's 2019 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  Features, February 18, 2019

  Judges selected 33 products to compete in the final round of the University of Georgia’s 2019 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest set for March 19th in Atlanta.

• Georgia Ag Forecast and Resource Fair to Offer Assistance to Hurricane-affected Communities

  News, January 15, 2019

• Registration Open for Flavor of Georgia

  News, January 11, 2019

• UGA CAES Professor Receives 2018 New Innovator Award

  News, December 20, 2018

• Lifelong Peanut Farmer and Former President Jimmy Carter Joins the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame

  News, November 13, 2018

• UGA CAES Alumni Association Recognizes Outstanding Alumni

  News, November 12, 2018

• Georgia’s Top Food Product Contest Ready for another Year of Delicious Food and Friendly Competition

  Features, November 07, 2018

  From pimiento cheese to prosciutto, Georgians take their food seriously. And they make some seriously good food. Each year the University of Georgia's Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest highlights the state's burgeoning Georgia-made food industry and helps separate the great products from the good ones.

• University of Georgia Convenes Rural Stress Roundtable to Lay the Groundwork for a Healthier Rural America

  News, September 25, 2018

• UGA Researchers Receive $5M to Help Reduce Energy Costs of Indoor Farming

  News, September 12, 2018

• UGA Extension is Now Recruiting and Training Citizen Scientists for Great Georgia Pollinator Census

  News, August 21, 2018

• UGA Food Scientist Wins Public Health Award from the Institute of Food Technologists

  News, July 26, 2018

• UGA Crop Geneticists Awarded $935,000 to Breed Softer Cotton and More Resilient Peanuts

  News, July 24, 2018

• UGA's Annual Organic Twilight Tour and Corn Boil on Tap for Late June

  News, June 05, 2018

• UGA CAES Students to Spend Summer Working at U.S. Capitol

  News, May 15, 2018

• Creamy, Sweet South Georgia Pecan Butter Wins Best in the State at 2018 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  News, March 22, 2018

• From Toccoa to the State Capitol, UGA Student Madison Hickey Helps Craft Policies to Help Georgia Agriculture

  News, February 27, 2018

• State's Top Food Products Make Final Round of University of Georgia's 2018 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  News, February 22, 2018

• UGA Report: Peach Farmers Optimistic about 2018 Crop

  News, February 13, 2018

• Doug Bailey, UGA Horticulture Department Head, Named CAES Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs

  News, November 28, 2017

• Georgian Food Products Earn Their Chance in the Spotlight with 2018 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest

  News, November 06, 2017

• UGA CAES Alumni Association Honors Outstanding Graduates and Their Careers

  News, September 29, 2017

• Flavor of Georgia at UGA to Host 10th Annual Celebration of Georgia’s Tastiest Food Products

  News, November 13, 2015

• UGA, Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Partner to Increase Access to Local Food, Jobs

  News, April 23, 2015

• Judges Choose 30 Finalists for UGA’s 2015 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  Features, February 13, 2015

  Judges have selected 30 products to compete in the final round of the University of Georgia’s 2015 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest March 9-10 at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in Atlanta.

• Ag Forecast to Provide Georgia Farmers Outlook for Upcoming Season

  News, January 08, 2015

• UGA Ag Forecast to be Held Across the State Jan. 14-23

  News, December 05, 2014

• UGA-Licensed Turfgrass to Take Center Stage at World Cup 2014

  Features, June 23, 2014

  When the world’s best soccer players make their way onto the world stage next week, chances are they’ll once again be playing on a University of Georgia-bred turfgrass.