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Business and Engineering & Computer Science Colleges Team Up to Compete Eight UCF students earned a $5,000 scholarship with their award-winning plan to keep college students engaged in extracurricular activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. UCF College of Business students Armando Barrial, Tomas Daza, Maria Pacheco Naranjo, Karen Ortiz and UCF College of Engineering & Computer […]

Social distancing may slow the spread of COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. After months stuck inside with little to no company, many of us are desperate for events. We miss everything from concerts to lectures to trade shows. And with more than 26 million professionals in the events industry worldwide, events miss people […]

By Kara Turey Earning a position as Senior Vice President of Business Marketing for Seacoast Bank upon the completion of the Executive MBA program (EMBA) from the UCF College of Business makes Eric LaBat ’17 a successful UCF College of Business alumnus and our Alumni Spotlight. Eric LaBat has not always been in the banking […]

By Kara Turey This month’s Alumni Spotlight of the College of Business is Meghan McPhee. Meghan successfully completed an audit internship at Ernst and Young (EY) during her undergraduate program at UCF. Upon graduation from the MBA program at UCF, she went back to EY full-time and is currently an Assurance Manager with EY. Meghan […]

Business Knights Earn Small Business Institute® National Honors     ORLANDO, FL — Two student teams from UCF College of Business earned second place honors in the Small Business Institute®’s (SBI®) annual Project of the Year competition, which was held in the spring. The Small Business Institute® (SBI®) provides professional development for those engaged in […]

Name a better UCF love story than Jim and Debbie Balaschak. I’ll wait. When Jim Balaschak ’86, ’92 met Debbie Balaschak ’88 at the laundry room of their UCF residence hall, they probably didn’t realize it was the beginning of a life-long partnership. Since their graduations, the Balaschaks have remained heavily involved with the UCF […]

In the business world, change often brings opportunity. For John Santo ’01, Chief Technology Officer at Echelon Fitness Multimedia LLC, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to thousands of new customers and significantly increased sales figures. As people come to terms with the closure of gyms and fitness centers, they are turning to Echelon’s spin bikes, […]

From representing the College of Business as a Student Ambassador to representing UCF as a whole around the globe, Amaireny Lantigua strives to make a difference both locally and internationally. She is currently studying marketing and management, and she plans on graduating in the Spring of 2020. Amaireny supports the College of Business through her […]

Always looking for new opportunities and challenges, Emily Irigoyen is a UCF Burnett Honors business student studying Management with a concentration in International Business and Human Resources. Emily is a current member of the CWEP program with Lockheed Martin and plans to graduate in the Spring of 2022. During her coursework at UCF, Emily has […]