Employee Type Archives: Faculty

Dr. Frye is an Associate Professor of Finance in the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida.  She received her Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree from Florida State University.  She has been a member of the UCF faculty since 1999. Professor Frye’s research interests are […]

Professor Gatchev is an Associate Professor at the Department of Finance of the UCF College of Business. Prior to joining the department, he was a full-time faculty member at Tulane University. Professor Gatchev’s research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Innovation, Stock Market Liquidity, and Corporate Governance. Some of his research […]

Dr. Ann Marie Whyte joined the Faculty in the Department of Finance at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the Fall of 1998. She obtained her Ph.D. in Finance in 1991 from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida and has held faculty positions at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio and the […]

Paul Gregg is an Executive in Residence and senior instructor at the University of Central Florida. Since joining UCF in 2002, over 17,000 students from all majors have taken his Personal Finance & Investments class. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate level corporate finance classes. Between 2015 and 2017, he served as the interim chair […]

My name is Tarek Buhagiar and I moved to Florida in 1990. I have been teaching at UCF since January 1998 and have loved every minute of it. UCF is a great institution that is constantly growing and changing. I have a Bachelor in Finance, a Master in Economics and a Graduate Certificate in Statistics/Data Mining. […]

Richard Hofler is Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. His major research fields are econometrics and health economics. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Hofler has served as […]

My Teaching Philosophy I take teaching very seriously and for the most part, view teaching as important as research. I have high expectations of the students, which is generally something they haven’t encountered in their prior education.  I eschew grading on a curve, for I find a curve unpalatable inasmuch as any true curve, e.g., a […]

Department of Economics

Dr. Nora Underwood received her BA from George Washington University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. She was employed as a lecturer in the economics department at UC Davis for nine years before joining the Department of Economics at UCF in 2003. She most often teaches principles of macroeconomics, environmental economics, and […]

Dr. Eric Schmidbauer is an Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida, where he has been on the faculty since 2014. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University at Albany (SUNY). His […]