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Hometown: St. Louis, MissouriMajor: Medical Laboratory ScienceFuture Plans: Earn a master’s degree in public health
Transfer student Millie Wallace says she chose the University of Illinois Springfield “because this university has so…
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Ho Chi Minh City is the new workplace for Adella Nguyen. She was recently employed by Shopee, one of the biggest e-commerce companies in South East Asia, as a Strategic Partnership Associate. She writes that she is excited to have a…
The University of Illinois Springfield recently hosted its first ever TEDx event on March 20, 2021. The theme of the event was Bridging the Gap and was a way to bring together the UIS community with the Springfield community.…
The UIS Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM) chapter took home eight awards from the International Collegiate Business Skills Championship 2020, including first place for Campus Chapter Performance in the small chapter…
Dr. Ranjan Karri has been recognized to participate in the President’s Executive Leadership Program, a unique professional development opportunity and experience for selected senior-level faculty and administrators across…
Hometown: Robbins, IllinoisMajors: Global Studies and Legal StudiesFuture Plans: Attend law school
Hannah Baity chose the University of Illinois Springfield because it “afforded me the best opportunities for the best price. I also…
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I am working as a Graduate Assistant for the BBA and MBA departments and it has been a great journey since 2019. After getting a degree from a non-business background, I was nervous when I joined as an MBA student. However, the…
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt’s (THI) Business School in Germany recently invited Dr. Shipra Gupta to teach a seminar on consumer behavior in retailing. It is part of a larger module entitled: Market research and consumer behavior…
Dr. Sudeep Sharma, a faculty member in the Management, Marketing & Operations Department, was awarded the prestigious 2020 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship. Every year,…
Barb Wilson, U of I System Executive Vice President and Vice President for Academic Affairs, recently announced the second cohort for the system-wide Public Voices Fellowship. Dr. Shipra Gupta, UIS Department of Business…
10.4.21
Good morning, UIS—
Here we are in October, having just celebrated a successful 2021 Homecoming. Thank you to UIS Athletics, Student Life and Campus Recreation for the fun activities and memories made. As we move…
In a fiscal year marked by a return to campus during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Illinois’ fundraising totals hummed right along.
The University of Illinois System and the UI Foundation pulled in their fourth-largest…
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