• In collaboration with the College of
Engineering, a proposal was developed
and was selected by the Department
of Energy’s Center for Advanced
Vehicular Technologies to compete in
the EcoCAR3 competition. STEM Path
to the MBA student Kaylie Crosby was
selected to serve as the team’s project
manager as the top leader of the UA
team.
• Three UA student teams, all from the
STEM program, gained real-world
experience in breast cancer research
when they competed in the 2014
worldwide Avon Foundation Breast
Cancer Startup Challenge. They were
the only undergraduate teams, mostly
freshmen and sophomores, in the
global competition of more than 40
university teams. The Avon Foundation
for Women and the National Institute
for Health and the Center for
Advancing Innovation launched the
challenge to advance biomedical
inventions to treat breast cancer and
bring breast cancer technologies to
market.
• The STEM Path to the MBA hosted
campus visits for Robert Woodson,
McArthur Fellow and founder of the
Center for Neighborhood Enterprise;
UA trustee John England, circuit judge,
and Rob High, chief technology officer
for the IBM Watson Group.
NEW FACULTY
• The program welcomed two new
faculty members who will teach
STEM business honors courses.
Elizabeth Jernigan holds a
bachelor’s degree in aerospace
engineering and an MBA. Jernigan
comes to the STEM Path to the
MBA at UA after working at BBVA
Compass, St. Jude’s Children’s
Hospital and FedEx in business
analytics positions.
• Michael Pope holds a bachelor’s
degree in mechanical engineering
and an MBA from UA and master’s
degrees in accounting and
engineering from The University of
Alabama in Huntsville. He has three
decades of work experience in the
defense industry as an engineer and
executive.
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