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Gritty, the new mascot of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, is a 7-foot, googly-eyed furry orange creature who wears a hockey jersey. Since Gritty’s recent debut, fans’ reactions have run the gamut from delighted to horrified. According to The Guardian, Gritty “embodies everything that’s good and bad about [Philadelphia]. But mostly the bad,” while the New York Post described Gritty as “engineered to terrify Twitter.”
Lerner College of Business and Economics awarded an array of internship opportunities to graduate and MBA students this fall to enhance their skills and gain firsthand working experience in different companies. Through the Lerner Career Services, students are guided to select and apply to their ideal experiential opportunity–either with the university or partnering companies. Lerner MBA and graduate students also benefit from pre-internship preparation and awareness workshops.
In this video, Nicholas Makos shares his engagement on campus, the opportunities he's been given at UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and his experiences while selecting a discipline in the undeclared business major. Transcript I think that the...
This year, the Lerner College celebrated eight excellent alumni at its 27th annual Alumni Awards of Excellence. In the Alumni Spotlight blog series, we get to know these professional trailblazers with Q&A sessions. The blog series’ first article highlighted alumna...
Fewer women are leading the biggest companies and the number of female chief executives is falling, especially in the Fortune 500. The Lerner Women’s Leadership Initiative will be exploring how to reverse this downward trend with business leaders around the region in October with two events: The Women’s Leadership Summit and the Women’s Leadership Forum.
This semester, the Paul Wise Executive in Residence Speaker Series will invite inspiring and leading professionals in the hospitality industry to the University of Delaware campus. Hosted by UD’s Department of Hospitality Business Management, this series will cover the latest business trends changing the future of the hospitality industry. Mark your calendars for these “must-attend” sessions.
Pop-up businesses created by local high school students took over Main Street in downtown Newark this summer, as part of the EntrePrep Summer Institute’s “Business-for-a-Day” program.
Former Vice President and University of Delaware alumnus Joe Biden will host The Biden Challenge Conference at the UD. Carlos Asarta, professor of economics and director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) at UD’s Lerner College, will participate in one of the conference’s plenary sessions on how to revitalize the middle class in the United States.
Wawa president and CEO Chris Gheysens will visit the University of Delaware on Sept. 27 as part of the Chaplin Tyler Lecture Series at UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. In this Q&A, Gheysens gives a preview of his discussion, offers his advice for students and talks about the special place Delaware holds in his heart as the parent of a UD student.
September is International Update Your Resume Month! Celebrate by following these key tips from Jill Panté, director of our Lerner Career Services Center.
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