The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah is proud to announce the Marriner S. Eccles Institute Rising Scholar in Finance Award. Funded through the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis, the scholarship provides $5,000 per year for the first two years of the Eccles Ph.D. program. This generous award for Ph.D. students with an emphasis in [...]
Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: NATR), a leading natural health and wellness company that manufactures high quality herbal and nutritional products, announced the creation of a new scholarship in partnership with the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah to support diverse students in their education. The company has pledged $200,000 over four years, and the Eccles School will match 50%, for [...]
Opportunity Scholars at the David Eccles School of Business recently held their Annual Luau to honor graduating seniors and celebrate another successful year. Families, advisory board members, donors, faculty, and Eccles School staff gathered for the celebration. Several students spoke of their educational journey, expressing gratitude for all the help they received along the way. The evening highlighted the full-circle support Opportunity Scholars embraces [...]
The David Eccles School of Business celebrated the 67th Annual Scholarship Luncheon, an event honoring the relationship of donors and the students benefiting from the scholarships created because of those donors. This year's celebration, held on Nov. 2, broke a record, with more than 1,250 students and donors in attendance, a marker of just how large the Eccles School has grown. Through the [...]
Congratulations to team Aspiring Analysts for winning the inaugural Game Day Ad Analytics Blitz competition, hosted by the Eccles School Department of Operations and Information Systems! Team members and Eccles School students Gayathri Kunnathil, Harshan Nagulapally, Naveenkumarreddy Peddagorla and Vineel Talupula came together to collect Twitter data during the Super Bowl on Feb. 4, 2018, and analyze the tweets to find business insights surrounding [...]
Every year, the David Eccles School of Business community gathers in November at the Grand America Hotel for the Annual Scholarship Luncheon to celebrate the scholarships awarded and to thank our wonderful donors. This year, more than $7 million was awarded, a record high for the Eccles School and its students. Although the demand for scholarships is extremely high and growing, the Eccles School [...]
Congratulations are in order for our own McKell Dalton! Dalton, a student in the MRED program, just received the 2017 CREW Utah Elevate Scholarship from Commercial Real Estate Women Utah. The $5,000 scholarship aims to advance women in commercial real estate. Read all about the scholarship in the Deseret News.
Eccles School Week is an annual event held each spring that works to capture the momentum of the David Eccles School of Business. We honor the five values of the Eccles School that embrace the bright future of the school and its students, faculty, staff and alumni. During the week, we honor the tenets of innovation, transformation, scholarship, entrepreneurship and community. You can read [...]
Doers Wanted is more than a campaign. It’s a call to arms for all doers, thinkers, leaders, innovators, artists, geeks, poets, inventors, entrepreneurs, dreamers, makers and risk-takers. Whether you come to the David Eccles School of Business as a bright-eyed freshman or as an already successful executive, you chose to embrace the essence of doing. This essence is pervasive in all of our academic [...]
This year we honor Jonathon Nichols, director of Online Programs, for Scholarship. Jonathon has led the creation of our new MBA Online degree, which recently ranked Top 10 in the West — an extraordinary feat, considering the program had not even graduated its first class of students. “Jonathon took on what was an extremely nebulous and seemingly overwhelming task of defining, creating, and implementing our first [...]