Fall term is off to an exciting start, with 855 undergraduates entering as prebusiness majors. October 12 is the date of the New Majors Celebration, when the entire college will join together to congratulate the 350 students who have progressed to full business major status since last spring.

Starting next summer, students in our Portland-based executive MBA program will have the chance to broaden their perspectives with a stint in Europe, via the UO | Nyenrode international study program, offered in partnership with Nyenrode Business Universiteit in The Netherlands. (In subsequent years the program will be expanded to include undergraduates and other students.) On the U.S.

Five new faculty members have joined the Lundquist College of Business this fall. Some are up-and-coming talent. Others are already renowned in their fields. Their areas of expertise span many topics, including sports business, statistical analysis and mathematical optimization, disclosure policy, executive risk-taking, management, and more.

Now you can read UO Business before it's even been printed.

"Top notch"--that's what US News & World Report's college guide called our business program in a recent article on the University of Oregon. (The Lillis Business Complex and its solar panels were also singled out for special mention.) Meanwhile, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur ranked the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship among the nation's top twenty-five for graduate-level entrepreneurship education--making this the fourth time in the past five years the center has been numbered among this elite group.

Can children be tempted into healthier eating habits through the promise of receiving a collectible toy? The answer is yes, especially if that toy is the final piece needed to complete a set. This was the surprising finding in a two-part study of preschoolers by marketing professor T. Bettina Cornwell and her coauthor, Anna McAlister, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Launched last year as part of the UO's diversity initiative, the Building Business Leaders project welcomes its second group of incoming students. Catch up with the first cohort in this video. Competing in the elite Venture Labs Investment Competition (formerly Moot Corp.), UO start-up teams won honors in their respective tracks: Sonas for Best Written Plan and Best Presentation, and VisiRay for Best Written Plan.

It was a match made in start-up heaven. Doug Anderson, MBA '11, and Paul Clark, MBA '11, were looking for a real-life project to apply the skills they'd honed in the business school's venture launch pathway. UO architecture professor Ihab Elzeyadi was looking for a way to commercialize the SolarStream Awning, an innovative three-in-one green building product he had recently developed.

"Nobody ever told me I couldn't do something, and as a result I tried all sorts of things" said Carolyn Chambers '53, the trailblazing entrepreneur who died on Monday, August 8. Chambers's entrepreneurial spirit blossomed while she was still in her twenties, when she borrowed $100,000 from her father, pooled that with funds from other investors, and applied for an FCC license. Her request was granted and KEZI went on the air in 1960. This was just the start for Chambers, whose vision and drive propelled her into cable television, construction, and the wine industry, among other ventures.

The first-ever official reception for the UO Accounting Alumni Network took place in the UO Portland White Stag building in June. The event brought together Portland-area grads from a wide range of eras: "We had a fellow who graduated in 1957, and then somebody who graduated last year, and everything in between," recalled accounting instructor Michele Henney, one the event's organizers and the department's external relations manager.

"I don't think I would be as successful at running if I didn't try to focus on academics as well," said Jordan Hasay, the UO student who was recently named Academic All-American of the Year for women's track and field/cross country. Hasay--who recently switched her major to pre-business--is the third-ever UO student to have received this recognition, joining runner Galen Rupp and former quarterback Bill Musgrave. (For the record, Rupp and Musgrave were also Lundquist College students.) She is also the first-ever sophomore to have received this honor in any sport.