Laura Seery Cole
Lecturer, and Director, Investment Learning Center
435 Stokely Management Center
Department of Finance
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Voice: 865-974-1715
Fax: 865-974-1716
Email: lwallis@utk.edu
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Laura Cole joined The University of Tennessee Department of Finance faculty as lecturer and director of the Investment Learning Center in 2009. She teaches introductory finance, financial statement analysis, and investments. Mrs. Cole received both an undergraduate degree in finance and an M.B.A. in management information systems from Auburn University, and is currently finishing her doctoral work at the University of Tennessee. Prior to joining the Department of Finance faculty, Laura was a full-time instructor of business at Macon State College, where she designed an online course that is still part of the curriculum there.
Her research interests include corporate finance and governance, and her research with Diane DelGuercio and Tracie Woidtke has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, cited in the Wall Street Journal and featured on the Harvard Law School corporate governance blog.
Mrs. Cole is the 2007 recipient of the University of Tennessee Extraordinary Graduate Teaching Award, the 2006 Chancellor’s Award for Professional Promise, and the 2006 College of Business Administration’s Graduate Teaching Award.
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