Gainesville, Fla. – Chris Janiszewski, J.C. Penney Professor of Marketing at the Warrington College of Business Administration, has previously been recognized for excellence in consumer research. The latest acknowledgments come as a consequence of him mentoring a new generation of
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Warrington’s Alba named ACR Fellow
Gainesville, Fla. – Joseph (Joe) W. Alba, University of Florida Distinguished Professor of Marketing and chair of the Department of Marketing, has been selected as a Fellow of the Association of Consumer Research (ACR). This is the highest level of
UF College of Business namesake commits $16 million to create faculty fellows fund
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Citing faculty as the key to a competitive future for the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration, UF Trustee Al Warrington announced today that he has committed a deferred gift of $16 million to establish
Ray selected as a mentor for national ethics conference
Gainesville, Fla. – Dr. Brian Ray, associate dean and director of the School of Business, was recently selected to serve as a mentor at the 2009 National Conference on Ethics in America (NCEA). The NCEA, an annual event hosted by
DiMatteo research project awarded UK Leverhulme Trust Grant
Gainesville, Fla. – Professor Larry A. DiMatteo, Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law & Legal Studies, has been awarded a United Kingdom Leverhulme Trust Grant. The grant application, sponsored by the University of Leicester, will provide funds for DiMatteo to
Fisher School’s Tucker wins university award for research excellence
Gainesville, Fla. – Jennifer Tucker, of the Fisher School of Accounting, has been selected as one of ten recipients of this year’s Jack Wessel Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. Tucker is the Luciano Prida, Sr. Professor at the Fisher School,
Warrington’s Flannery will visit NY Fed’s Research Department
Gainesville, Fla. – Professor Mark Flannery will be the resident scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the 2009-10 academic year, beginning in August 2009. Flannery is the BankAmerica Eminent Scholar in Finance at the Warrington College
Bradbury lecture brings Nobel winner to UF campus
Gainesville, Fla. – The Warrington College of Business Administration hosted Nobel Memorial Prize winner and MIT Institute Professor Emeritus Robert Solow on Monday, April 6 as keynote speaker for this year’s Robert Bradbury Distinguished Lecture on International Economics. Solow, who

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