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John Burbridge, along with two other academics, selected the 2009 Seymour Medal recipient at the Seymour Medal Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 1. The Seymour Medal is given by the Society for American Baseball Research and honors the best book of baseball history or biography published during the preceding calendar year.

David Noer, a professor emeritus in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published May 9, 2010, by the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.

The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business will offer four new majors starting this fall - finance, marketing, management and entrepreneurship - as well as a new degree and two new minors. The new degree is a bachelor of science in business administration.

Three ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students were named national winners in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards contest May 5.

Associate professor Brian Nienhaus has been selected as the first Periclean Faculty Leader at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ for his “Business and Sustainability” course, part of the new Periclean Faculty Leadership Program to champion civic engagement in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community.

Twenty rising juniors and seniors traveled to Charlotte on April 23 to visit Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America for an exclusive banking/finance industry trip sponsored by ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Career Services and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business.

The best and brightest of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business were honored April 29 in an afternoon awards ceremony that highlighted the achievements of both students and faculty.

Restructuring of the Simmons Balance Sheet
Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
KOBC 242

Bill Creekmuir, Simmons Bedding Company CFO and incoming chair of the Love School of Business Board of Advisors, will discuss the Simmons company bankruptcy.