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Dayu Yang is a postdoctoral researcher in the financial services analytics (FSAN) Ph.D. program at Lerner College and is expected to graduate in Spring 2025. He was recently offered a full-time postdoctoral research job from Meta AI.
Madelynn Murray, class of 2025 operations management and marketing dual major with an entrepreneurship minor, spent her summer as a Chase leadership development program summer analyst at JPMorgan Chase.
Three UD accounting students were recognized as PCAOB Scholars by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for the 2024-25 academic year.
Business program now ranked No. 77 in latest rankings, economics program ranked No. 114.
Faculty members from UD’s Lerner College published more than 25 research papers in their respective fields’ leading refereed journals in 2023. This included the top 50 journals used in the Financial Times research ranking, journals cited in the University of Texas (UT) Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings and journals identified as highly selective “A” journals by the Lerner College’s five academic departments.
UD Lerner Professor Wendy Smith received the 2024 Academy of Management Review Decade Award and Organization & Environment’s 2024 Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Annual meeting on August 11.
For four weeks this past summer, 48 local children ages 11-13 were Livin’ La Vita Nova during the University of Delaware’s Culinary Camp presented by the Department of Hospitality and Sport Business Management and Vita Nova restaurant.
Oliver Yao, dean of the UD’s Lerner College announced the appointments of Bintong Chen to Chaplin Tyler Professor and Carlos Asarta to Bank of America Professor of Business. Their appointments were effective September 1, 2024.
New research co-authored by Dustin Sleesman, associate professor of management in UD’s Lerner College, explored the concept of intuition and when it’s helpful for leaders who are in charge of large teams.
The international experience and leadership program for young Black men featured students engaged in learning and reflection activities that targeted the social and psychological barriers to academic success, retention and empowered leadership.

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