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The UNC Charlotte Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team won the SIFE USA regional league competition on March 29. This is the seventh consecutive regional championship victory for the UNC Charlotte SIFE team. The team has won the SIFE regional competition every year since thechapterlaunched in 2003. The regional competition served as a preliminaryround for […]

The Belk College extends sincere gratitude to alumni JohnOwens ’90 from Ameritrust, Michelle Menard ’97 from Choice Translating and Brian Hamlett ’04 from mPower Consulting for speaking to the Introduction to Entrepreneurship class this month. “There’s no better inspiration for a student than learning from a successful business owner who started out just like them,” […]

On October 15, faculty from the Belk College of Business participated in a workshop on participant-centered learning, facilitated by a noted Harvard professor. The workshop, “Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership,” was led by Dr. William J. Bruns, the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Dr. Bruns taught […]

Pat Mynatt, lecturer in accounting, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Thomas C. Turner Distinguished Teaching Lectureship by the Department of Accounting. Dr. Mynatt earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently teaches courses in financial and managerial accounting and also serves as the faculty advisor for […]

Guest speakers enhance the classroom learning experience for Belk College students.The Belk College thanksSean Graham ’97, COO of TIAA-CREF Trust Co., and David Chapin, CEO and chief strategist of Forma Life Science Marketing, for sharing their professional experiences with students this week. If you are a business executive interested in speaking to students at either […]

Muhammad Zaffar and Haya Ajjan, both students in the Ph.D. in IT program in the Belk College of Business,had co-authoredpapers presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), held in Paris last December. CIS is the premier, selective, international conference on information systems. Only about 20 percent of the papers submitted are accepted. UNC […]

Wei Tsay, an International Business major with a minor in Economics, from Lexington, NC, was selected to speak at UNC Charlotte’s recent Commencement ceremony. He is pictured here with Chancellor Phil Dubois. While a student in the Belk College of Business Tsay was active in a number of student organizations, most notably serving as president […]

Lindsay Baran,a student in the Finance Ph.D. program in the Belk College of Business, has beenrecognized as a Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar. Philanthropic Educational Organizationis a national organizationdedicated to the advancement and education of women. Theorganization conducts a Scholars Award competition for female doctoral students who are at the dissertation stage. The awardcarries a scholarship […]

Lloyd Blenman, professor of finance in the Belk College of Business, has been elected president of the Midwest Finance Association, the second oldest academic finance association in North America. Blenman, who joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1999, holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His work has been published in Journal of Money, Credit […]

Craig A. Depken II, associate professor of economics in the Belk College of Business, recently waselected vice president of the North American Association of Sports Economics for 2009-2010. The NAASE promotes and facilitates research and teaching in the economics of sports. Dr. Depkenjoined the Belk Collegein2007.Prior to coming to UNCCharlotte, he was an associate professor […]