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.
For the undergraduates and MBA students attending the Warsaw Sports Business Club's first annual Global Sports Business Symposium, a day spent in Portland provided a panoramic view of sports business in China.
A new $12,000 grant from the university's Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity has provided seed money for the debut of the business school's Diversity in the Workplace Symposium, scheduled for winter 2012. Developed by the Lundquist College of Business Diversity Committee, the day-long event will bring together students, faculty, staff, and community members to discuss the value of workplace diversity, how businesses can promote and affirm it, how students can best prepare themselves for working in diverse environments, and more.
Congratulations to Richard Reynolds, Ryan Bennett, and Liam Bain, three undergraduate finance students who recently won the Oregon round of the CFA Institute Global Investment Research Challenge.
With the warmer weather and (at least a few) sunnier days, comes another inevitable spring ritual: tax day. Luckily for the tax-phobic among us, help is at hand. Starting each February, members of the UO branch of the national accounting society Beta Alpha Psi team up with law students to offer free tax preparation to students and area residents, as part of VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), a nationwide program run by the Internal Revenue Service. Still haven't filed? You're in luck--VITA volunteers will be available two more Saturdays: April 9 and April 16, from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Bright smiles, tables draped in vivid primary colors, and the hum of excited talk among the fifty female undergraduates matched with fifty professional women--all pointed to the success of the sixth annual student-run event. This year's theme was "Paint Your Own Picture," and the keynote speaker was business school alum Erin Tyburski, who recently served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya. Catch the energy in this video.
From vision to Venture Quest to reality—that's the course charted by sisters Lindsey and Sydney Swing and their start-up company Swing Mobility Aids, LLC. Their product? A souped-up walker geared to disabled youths and adults, as well as active seniors. After learning about the many injuries caused by devices currently on the market, current UO business major Lindsey sketched out a better product. Next, she and her sister Sydney—a UO alum—interviewed people currently using mobility aids.
Held on Tuesday, January 25, the workshop gave students the chance to get candid, real-world feedback on their resumes, cover letters, and job/internship search strategies.
