Aspiring student entrepreneurs pitch startups
By Stephen Nye
November 12, 2015
Touch-feedback, affordable prosthetic hands. A positive reinforcement app designed to stop texting and driving. A product designed to help find visually similar fashion products online.Aspiring student entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday to pitch their startups to fellow students, faculty and...
UI aims to improve conditions for women in business
By Maggie Sullivan
August 19, 2015
The University’s College of Business is the third largest school on campus- just behind the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Engineering. With over 4,000 students enrolled in the 2014-2015 school year, the college hosts 10 percent of the total University population. However, the college con...
College of Business names new dean
By Daily Illini Staff Report
June 30, 2015
Jeffrey R. Brown has been named the new dean for the College of Business at the University.Brown teaches finance courses in the College of Business. He is also the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance and the director of the Center for Business and Public Policy. The appointment was anno...
College of Business launches online-based MBA program
By Maggie Sullivan
May 10, 2015
The University’s vision for the College of Business didn’t include leading online education when it was established 100 years ago; however, the college could become the first institution to launch a Massive Open Online Course, MOOC, based MBA program. The Academic Senate approved a proposal for t...
UI employee juggles work and Grammy-award-winning record label
January 21, 2015
Meagan Hennessey is a manager of web services for the College of Business, updating websites and helping faculty with their sites. But what people may not know is that she won a Grammy — and may have another on the way. With husband Richard Martin, Hennessey owns Archeophone Records, which means the archae...
Local toy drives provide gifts to kids for holidays
December 8, 2014
Three community organizations are coming together to provide toys and gift opportunities for local children and promote the spirit of giving to others during the holiday. These organizations are the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree, the University’s Office of Volunteer Programs and the Crisis Nursery. E...
University alumnus planning food truck for Caribbean Grill
October 2, 2014
In the middle of an economic recession and planning a wedding, Mike Harden, 2005 University MBA alumnus, gave up a financially sound job and took the biggest gamble of his life. “Everybody was all like, ‘Are you crazy, why would you do that?’” he said. “But I literally quit my job and I put...
Guest lecturer to reveal intersection of science, creativity, communication
April 9, 2014
Over the years, Foellinger Auditorium has presented a wide variety of established lecturers, scientists and performers, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou and Bill Gates. This tradition will continue on Thursday, when the auditorium hosts Edward Tufte at 7 p.m. Tufte, a statistician, landscape scu...
