Student Profiles
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 by
Khawaja Taha Abbas, is an MBA student who started at UIC Business
during the pandemic and is adjusting to the one-of-a-kind virtual
experience from his home country. MBA students in particular are
used to receiving a great deal of hands-on experience like
networking and social events, in-class discussions, case study
meetings and some great peer learning opportunities. While Khawaja
would have loved to start his educational experience by interacting
directly with his peers and professors, he...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020 by
Nicholas Medline is an MBA student at UIC Business
planning to major in finance. He grew up in Toronto and moved to
Evanston, Illinois to study journalism at Northwestern University.
Over the last five years, he worked at the Big Ten Network in
Chicago, most recently as a graphics producer for live TV sporting
events. He has had an incredible virtual experience in his first
two months at UIC Business. He looks forward to getting involved in
student-led initiatives and giving back to the local...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 by
Four UIC Business Scholars have been announced among the winners of
the highly competitive and prestigious CME Group Foundation
Scholars Program scholarship that provides support for the
education of underrepresented minorities in finance, information
technology, computer science, and applied mathematics. Each
recipient will receive a renewable scholarship worth up to $20,000
per year. The scholars competed for the award with students from 10
CME partner schools that included UIUC, DePaul...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by
Included in this year’s Chancellor’s Student Service Award, is
one of our Masters in Information Systems Graduate Students, Mrinal
Ashok Bageshwari. Mrinal travelled across the world from India to
Chicago last fall to pursue her academic career. From the beginning
of her journey here at UIC, she started to make an impact with her
tremendous contributions to student communities. Her volunteering
efforts have helped both the university and campus serve the
surrounding communities in need. We had...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020 by
Ehlimana Gutosic is an Accounting and Information Decision Sciences
major, Business Scholar, member of the Honors college and also the
President of Collegiate Association of Business Scholars (CABS).
She has also served the Undergraduate Women’s Network as the Vice
Chair of Communications and Vice Chair of Treasury. Ehlimana has
successfully interned in multiple organizations starting with PwC
and Michael Silver. We caught up with Ehlimana as her time at UIC
Business comes to an end but the...
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Monday, April 29, 2019 by
Anurag Vuthunuri is an undergraduate student majoring in Finance
and minoring in Business Analytics. Anurag has been the President
of the Finance and Investment Group for the past two years and the
founder of UIC's Improv Club. He is a Business Scholar, Honors
Student, and part of UIC's GPPA Program for MIS. He has also served
with Collegiate Association of Business Scholars (CABS), Business
Student Advisory Board (BSAB), and has been a research assistant
for iLEAD. Anurag has interned at many...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019 by
Recent graduate Brittany Barton (Master of Science in Marketing
’18) is not your typical business student. After receiving her
Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Psychology and Spanish
from Loyola University New Orleans, the Baton Rouge native started
her career in education - primarily in education and training field
within the nonprofit sector. “I kind of just fell into this work,”
she recollects. Her introduction into the industry started through
working with Autistic children and...
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Monday, August 27, 2018 by
Ranked third on the Forbes: Best American Employers list, Google is
one of the most recognized companies on the planet. While most know
the company as a high-powered Internet search engine, many are
unaware of its philanthropic arm, Google.org. Many people could
only dream of working with the tech powerhouse that is Google, but
graduate student Sarah Siderius, who is working toward completing
her MBA in the spring of 2019, had the unique experience of working
as a contractor for Google.org....
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018 by
William O’Brien, assistant professor of finance, received this
year’s Silver Circle Award for the College of Business
Administration. The award, presented since 1966, honors
excellence in teaching by UIC faculty, with winners selected by
graduating seniors from each college. O’Brien joins the 13 other
faculty receiving the 2018 award and will be honored at UIC
Business commencement. O’Brien teaches Introduction to Managerial
Finance (FIN 301), the first finance course that students take at
the...
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Friday, May 4, 2018 by
Courtney Hickman is a full-time fundraising professional with UIC
Business and is graduating in May 2018 from the Master of
Science in Marketing program. Hickman is passionate and
confident of her skill set in donor relations, capital campaign
fundraising, front-line fundraising, brand management,
promotions/marketing, and event planning. She will be singing the
National Anthem as this year's commencement student singer, and
reflected on her time as a UIC student for the UIC Business Blog:
Q:...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018 by
Kera Beskin is a graduate student and researcher here at UIC. She
grew up in rural Minnesota and is graduating this May with her dual
master’s of public health and master’s of business administration
at UIC. The president of the Public Health Student Association and
currently working as a research assistant at the UIC School of
Public Health, she has also served as a Business Ambassador and
will deliver this year’s graduate speech at the UIC Business
commencement. We caught up with Beskin as her...
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Thursday, April 19, 2018 by
by Jasur Rasulov A premiere benefit of the UIC Business Scholars
Program is the Speaker Series. Every semester, several
well-established business professionals—most of them UIC
alumni—visit UIC Business to deliver speeches on a variety of
topics, exclusively for Business Scholars. Although the specific
details of every speech vary, the common underlying themes surround
the topics of leadership, determination, paths to professional
success, personal branding, and dealing with setbacks. ...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by
The 12th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference took place
this past February, providing a forum for industry professionals
and students to discuss the expanding role of analytics in the
global sports industry. The MIT Sloan School of Management is
dedicated to encouraging growth and innovation in this space,
and the conference enriches opportunities for learning about the
sports business world. UIC Business’ own Kaushik Kompella, a
graduate student currently pursuing a dual degree in...
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Monday, March 19, 2018 by
The 2018 Management Leadership Association and Target Case
Competition took place at the end of last month, with 11 teams
presenting to a panel of Target staff members. Each year,
Target partners with the UIC Business Career Center to host this
program that asks students to develop and present solutions to a
unique challenge facing the company. This year’s case study prompt
presented teams with the opportunity to directly apply their lived
experiences as college students. The retailer gave...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018 by
As the first in his family to receive a college education, Don
Hermanek (BS Marketing ’70) chose to attend The University of
Illinois at Chicago for his undergraduate degree because he could
commute, receive an affordable education, and work full-time at
Goodyear Tires in Berwyn, IL to help pay for it. Little did
Hermanek know how beneficial his UIC Business education would
be. Hermanek credits his UIC education with providing a
strong foundation that extended beyond business theory. It gave...
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Monday, December 4, 2017 by
From left: Joe Moag, Susan Kantor, Asma Hasan. By Asma Hasan and
Susan Kantor The business skills taught in UIC Business graduate
programs are in high demand for non-profit organizations and
explain the significant number of MBAs employed in the sector.
Recognizing how important business skills are to non-profits,
Associate Professor Maija Renko presented UIC Business students
with an independent study opportunity focused on non-profit market
research. This project we took on was conducted...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017 by
UIC Business offers a collection of preferred and guaranteed
graduate admissions programs that put qualified students on the
fast track to admission. Whether you are an aspiring Master of
Science in Business Analytics, Master of Science in Accounting,
Master of Science in Marketing, or Master of Science in Management
Information Systems, you may be eligible for one of these highly
respected programs. An advanced degree continues to be one of the
most highly coveted resume builders in an...
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Thursday, November 9, 2017 by
Al Heller ’75 Accounting, Operating Partner for Water Street
Healthcare Partners, LLC Keeping the family tradition alive, and
because it was most affordable, Al Heller (BS Accounting ’75)
followed in his brothers’ footsteps and attended The University of
Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for his undergraduate degree. Al wanted
to be sure he received a “top notch” accounting education, which
UIC was able to provide. Al earned his degree in accounting at the
College of Business Administration while...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 by
Michael Lev, a senior Business Scholar majoring in marketing and
minoring in managerial skills, completed an Account Specialist
Internship with Enterprise Truck Rental this summer. His many
successes in the position – including receiving an award for Top
Presenter among over 70 interns – were made possible by the
professional skills he developed at UIC Business. Lev was invited
to an interview at Enterprise’s headquarters in Lombard after
connecting with a recruiter and filling out an...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 by
UIC Business Scholar sophomores Edgar Gabriel Avalos and Brian
(Seungyong) Lee are the co-founders of One. Clothing Brand.
We caught up with Avalos and Lee to learn about the company, what
is coming up next for the brand, and the role UIC Business has
played in the company’s founding. Both Avalos, born in the U.S. and
raised in Mexico City, and Lee, raised in Seoul, South Korea before
moving to Michigan in 2009, brought a passion for entrepreneurship
with them to UIC. In October 2016, Avalos...
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