Sep 16
With patience, determination, and a vision for democratizing healthcare, Psyonic Founder and CEO Aadeel Akhtar has transformed an oversized, cumbersome prototype into the first bionic hand with multi-touch feedback on the market.
Sep 15
Mackenzie Alston joined Gies this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Finance after three years at Florida State University. Her research focuses on experimental and behavioral economics as well as labor and education.
Sep 14
It’s fascinating to compare what many people plan to do with their lives and what people actually do with their lives. Brooke Elliott's dream wasn’t necessarily to break gender barriers in the highest echelons of academia but that’s exactly what happened.
Sep 12
Gies College of Business is once again ranked as a Top 10 public undergraduate business program, according to the latest rankings released by US News & World Report. Gies is ranked No. 13 among all business schools.
Aug 22
Academic researchers and healthcare practitioners convened to explore using technology to improve healthcare delivery to diverse populations at the second Midwest Healthcare Management Conference.
Jul 18
The Disruption Lab partnered with EY on an early project to immerse students in quantum computing and virtual reality, which is expected to transform the future as it enables computations that are not possible with traditional computing capabilities.
Jul 11
The expectation was that Manu Edakara would become a doctor or lawyer, but his passion was for something far different: entrepreneurship. Today, Manu heads up the iVenture Accelerator at the University of Illinois, helping budding entrepreneurs follow their passions as well. Manu is Tim Sinclair’s guest on this episode of the Gies Download.
Jun 07
The University of Illinois’ iVenture Accelerator – powered by Gies College of Business – has admitted 16 startups into its eighth and largest cohort ever. This year’s group consists of 55 full-time students from 30 fields of study.
May 26
Author, researcher and Gies professor Don Fullerton joins Tim Sinclair in this episode of the Gies Download podcast. Don studies the effects of environmental policy on the economy and then presents his research to world leaders and decision makers. Is it even possible to save the environment and protect the economy at the same time? Don's research might surprise you.
May 04
Gies Business and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited have renewed their partnership agreement, in which AXIS will contribute $1 million to help attract more students to the (re)insurance industry, teach them about risk management, and fund leading-edge faculty research that can support the field.
Apr 25
The education market is changing right in front of our eyes, but too many colleges and universities remain rooted in the same practices and business model they’ve kept in place for literally centuries.
Apr 21
Furthering its longstanding commitment to break down barriers to business education, Gies College of Business is launching a pair of fully online, credit-bearing graduate certificates, the first ever offered by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.