Collat School of Business News
Collat students honor professors with teaching award
UAB Collat School of Business students recently honored four professors with the third 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.
Collat ProEd launches new data visualization course this summer
The Collat School of Business’s Professional Education Office will offer a new course this summer specifically for professionals who want to enhance their skills in data communication and storytelling.
Revolutionizing Sales: New research shows how AI is shaping the future of sales strategies
In the fast-evolving business landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking center stage in transforming sales processes, making them more efficient and responsive to the dynamic market demands. A new study titled “AI in Sales: Laying the Foundations for Future Research” by UAB Collat School of Business Professor Colleen McClure, Ph.D., and colleagues, recently published in the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, highlights the pivotal role AI is playing in reshaping the sales sector.
Kennedy to serve as president of AAHEB
Collat Senior Associate Dean Karen Kennedy, Ph.D., has been elected president of the Alabama Association of Higher Education in Business for 2024-25. She took over the role at the association’s recent annual meeting in Point Clear, Ala.
Boyar honored with Provost’s TOCA award for online management class
Collat management professor Scott Boyar, Ph.D., has been recognized with the 2023 Provost’s Transformative Online Course Award (TOCA) for engaging online students.
UAB's graduate management information systems program ranks No. 4 in nation
The Collat School of Business’s online graduate Management Information Systems program opens a new website is ranked No. 4 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Cybersecurity expert named chair of Collat’s Department of Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business has named information systems professor Paul M. Di Gangi, Ph.D. opens a new website , chair of the Department of Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods.
Beta Alpha Psi appoints Collat alumnae to task force
Two UAB Collat School of Business alumnae are serving as 2023-2024 alumni advocates on Beta Alpha Psi International’s alumni task force.
Entrepreneurship program opens new space
The J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Entrepreneurship Program opens a new website recently opened a new space in the Innovation Depot to a standing-room-only crowd, placing Collat students in the heart of Birmingham's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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.
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.
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.