Many business students focus on the bottom line, but a growing cohort of Terry College students is taking on academic research projects in business, data science, and other fields across campus.

This year, 43 Terry College of Business students participated in research with mentors from departments across campus through UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium. An additional 23 students worked with Terry College mentors through the Terry Opportunities for Undergraduate Research program.

Each student’s undergraduate research experience is unique, but the critical and creative thinking skills they build will stay with them no matter where their career takes them. “The undergraduate research experience sharpens critical thinking skills and offers students the opportunity to explore and gain a deep understanding of a topic that they’re passionate about,” said Terry College Dean Santanu Chatterjee. “Whether these students head to Wall Street or a PhD program, they will leave Terry with the ability to ask the right questions and find the data to answer them.”

This year’s Terry College TOUR researchers, majors, projects and mentors include:

·  Sofia Arboleda, Marketing and Sports Management, “Observation Research on Climate Labels,” Tatiana Dyachenko
·  Lauren Baker, Accounting, “What Makes a Business a Good Business?” Neil Bendle
·  Eshvar Arivalagan, Accounting; Aubrey Bizzell, Accounting and Mrunal Nazare, Management, “Parenting and Workplace Behavior,” Joanna Lin· Nick Follett, Marketing, “How Do Consumers Engage with Sustainability?” Neil Bendle
·  Hailey Franz, Marketing and MIS, “Self-construal Scale Development,” Tatiana Dyachenko
·  Brooke Istishin, Finance and Marketing, “Comparing Senior Expectations and Junior-level AI competency in finance roles,” Susan Cohen·  Simran Kansara, MIS, “Word on the Street: Field Evidence on the Use and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Sell-side Equity Research,” Michael Yip·  Anastasia Kefalas, Marketing, “Observation Research on Climate Labels,” Tatiana Dyachenko
·  Aarya Matharu, Finance and MIS, andTyler Sims, Economics and Risk Management and Insurance, “An Examination of Layoff Waves,” Daniel Gamache·  Ashley Park, Management and MIS “Organizational Changes that Help Make AI Adoption More Successful,” Seung-Hwan (Sonny) Lee·  Lacey Powell, Marketing; Rishma Shah, Marketing; and  Malhar Sethia, Economics and MIS, “Various Projects in Consumer Behavior,” Sarah Whitley· Caroline Prevost, Accounting and Finance, “Investor Reliance on Key Performance Indicators—Using AI to Identify Industry Trends,” Ted Christensen·  Yana Radionova, Accounting, “The Association between Hedge Fund Activism and Non-GAAP Reporting,” Michael Yip·  Oraa Raysoni, MIS, “Understanding the Impact of Generative AI on Student Learning and Productivity,” Hani Safadi·  Justin Shearman, Economics and Mathmatics “Wage Under-Payment and Labor Union Membership,” Henry Downes·  Sarah Washburn, MIS and Anna Raz, Accounting “Labor market implications of AI,” Akshat Lakhiwal

Students who participated in the UGA CURO program this year and will be presenting the 2026 CURO Symposium include:

·  Amal Ali, MIS, “The Weight of Owing: Emotion Narratives and Gendered Patterns of Debt,” Mary Ager
·  Anish Maddineni, Finance, “Examining the Fitness of Acidovorax 3H11 in Differing Heavy Metal and Groundwater Conditions,” Michael W. Adams
·  Brooke Istishin, Finance and Marketing, “Bridging the Gap: AI Competency Expectations Versus Entry-Level,” Susan Cohen
·  Carter Kim, Finance, “Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: How Agentic Interaction Type and Communication Styles Impact Performance,” Aaron Schecter
·  Catherine Mackin, Economics and International Business, “Seeking Mental Health Support in Online Communities and Digital Tools Among Indian College Students,” Gaurav Sinha
·  Connie Wang, Management, “Molecular Detection of Cryptosporidium Species,” Jessica C. Kissinger
·  Heather Dorn, Economics AB, “Antisemitism and Hate Crimes: Is Holocaust Education Helping?,” Amanda Wall·  Janki Mehta, Finance and Real Estate, “Cost of a Degree: Tuition and Associated Expenses in the USA, UK, and Australia?,” Gaurav Sinha
·  Jodie Kamdoum, Economics AB, “A Comparative Analysis of Elderly Social Spending: Liberal, Conservative, and Socialist Welfare States,” Mary Ager
·  Karthikeyan Rajkumar Jayapriya, Economics, “When Lives are at Stake: A Python-Based Assisted Tool for Detecting ESP-32 Medical Software Vulnerabilities,” Maduranga Dissanayake
·  Landon Drapatsky, Accounting, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Consumer Behavior Across Different Income Groups,” Maduranga Dissanayake
·  Max Whitford, Economics AB, “Strategic Compliance with State-Level Age Verification Laws for Adult Content,” David Mustard
·  Mehar Nemani, Economics AB, “The Inflation Laffer Curve in the United States: Theory and Empirical Evidence,” William D. Lastrapes
·  Mingyang (Amanda) Li, Management, “The Weight of Owing: Emotion Narratives and Gendered Patterns of Debt,” Mary Ager
·  Pragnya Nallagonda, Management, “VIPR: Tracking Bacterial Use of Algal Metabolites in the Marine Phycosphere,” Art Edison
·  Reid Luffler, Finance, “A Comparative Analysis of Elderly Social Spending: Liberal, Conservative, and Socialist Welfare States,” Mary Ager
·  Reva Hegde, Finance, “Evaluating the Effects of a Live L-DOPA-Producing Biotherapeutic in a Multipathological Model of Parkinson’s Disease,” Anumantha Kanthasamy
·  Riley Eckstrom, MIS and International Business, “From Regulation to Reality: Implementing an Effective Enforcement Model for Chile’s Data Protection Act,” Marisa Anne Pagnattaro
·  Sana Raheja, Finance, “Trading Behavior Around Major Bitcoin Price Movements,” Daniel Rettl
·  Shivani Senthil Kumar, Management, “Examining the Relationship Between Localizer-Based M1 Activation and Complex Motor Performance,” Deborah A. Barany
·  Sisira Gudi, Management, “Co-Treatment with Engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 and Upadacitinib in a DSS-Induced Model of Colitis,” Anumantha Kanthasamy
·  Sophia Hou, Economics, “Ahab as Pilot-Prophet: Biblical Typology, Sermonic Form, and Narrative Voice in Melville’s Moby Dick,” Cody Marrs
·  Spencer Katzman, Economics, “Ranked Choice Voting with Different Elimination Procedures,” Keith Dougherty
·  Sriya Chatterjee, Economics, “Financial Behaviors in College-Age Dating Couples,” Richard Slatcher
·  Tania Croicu, Finance, “Investigating q-Analogues of the Fibonacci Sequence,” Matthew Just
·  Yachana Nilay Shah, Management, “The Social Roles of Embodied Chatbots in Group Hiring Decisions,” Peiyan Yu
·  Abby Kirry, Economics, “Best Practices in Education Workforce Alignment: Examining Responses to the Teacher Shortage,” Rebecca Hunt
·  Adam Buckler, Economics, “VIPR: Solving the Data Puzzle: Quantifying the Trade-Off Between Labor-Intensity and Precision,” Erin Dolan
·  Adrian Fleming, Accounting, “Examining Self-Presentation Strategies of College Athletes on Social Media,” Welch Suggs
·  Eliana Trapp, Management, “Systemic Failure: Soviet Management Culture and the Chernobyl Disaster,” Alexandra Schultheis Moore
·  Kensley McConnell, Economics, “VIPR: Uncovering Patterns and Drivers of Bird Collisions with Windows on the UGA Campus,” Richard Hall
·  Maadhavan Muthuselvan, MIS, “Bridging Gaps in Field-Based Forestry Education Through Immersive Technology,” Pete Bettinger
·  Mark Vincent Zimmer, Jr., Economics, “The Partisan Pen: How Party Control Shapes the Language of Immigration Legislation,” Maryann Gallagher
·  Sophia Beasley, Marketing, “Laugh Now, Litigate Later: Why Memes Challenge the Foundations of Intellectual Property Law,” Prof. Mike Schuster
·  Anna Rachwalski, Economics, “READINESS for an Economic Downturn: Building Legislative Crisis Management Capability,” Yan Jin
·  Samarth Mohan, Finance (Pre), “Comparative Biology of Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals,” Andrew Park
·  Waylon Shapowal, Finance (Pre), “Modernizing the Separation of Banking and Commerce in the Age of Big Tech,” Lindsay Sain Jones
·  Morgan Niederer, Management, “Sex as Sacrament: Natural Eroticism and Christian Moral Repression in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Figs’ and ‘Sun’,” Adam Parkes
·  Mackenzie Smith, Real Estate (Pre), “Designing an Intelligent Document Scanning System to Reduce Paper Dependency and Enable Data Extraction,” John Aliu
·  Mason Liggon, Finance (Pre), “Development of a Replication-Competent mCherry Reporter Yellow Fever Virus for Antiviral Drug Screening,” Lok Raj Joshi
·  Brady Williams, Finance (Pre), “Disclosure Informativeness and Its Decay: Evidence from 10-K Filings and Machine Learning,” Xiangiao Wang
·  Anika Khatri, Finance (Pre), “The Autonomous Room Monitor: Robotic Tidiness Assessment for Indoor Manufacturing Environments,” Jaime Camilo Ordonez
·  Venkat Suresh, Finance (Pre), “VIPR: Wearable-Based Monitoring of Cognitive Load and Physiological Stress in Natural Settings,” Jaime Camilo Ordonez