Sulphur Springs Resident Named Inaugural Texas Bank and Trust Scholar at UT Tyler
March 28, 2023
Sulphur Springs Resident Named Inaugural Texas Bank and Trust Scholar at UT Tyler
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Landon Cole Thornton of Sulphur Springs, a senior at The University of Texas at Tyler, was awarded the inaugural UT Tyler Texas Bank and Trust Scholarship in the amount of $1,266. Thornton placed first in the fall 2022 Texas Bank and Trust / Financial Management Association Stock Market Challenge.
This year, Texas Bank and Trust donated $25,000 to name the Jerry Woolverton Texas Bank and Trust Conference Room in the Soules College of Business and establish the endowment that generates scholarship funds to the challenge winner.
Students start with a fictitious $1,000,000 investment and must manage their portfolio in the stock market for the duration of the challenge. The winner is the student who has the largest return on their investment at the end. The challenge is conducted each fall and spring.
“I would like to acknowledge the incredible opportunity that the endowment and its accompanying investment challenge provide for students at UT Tyler to practice what they learn in the classroom, and I’m incredibly thankful to be the 2022 fall recipient,” said Thornton.
Claude Henry, president of Texas Bank and Trust Tyler, recognized Thornton earlier this month during a private ceremony.
Thornton currently serves as the UT Tyler FMA student chapter president. He will graduate this December with a UT Tyler Bachelor of Business Administration in finance and Bachelor of Science degree in computer information systems. Upon graduation, he plans to pursue a career in equity research.
With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. UT Tyler recently merged with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (now known as UT Tyler Health Science Center). Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center (HSC) and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.