Oct 27
Margaret Evans comes to Gies as an instructor in the Department of Accountancy after graduating from the iMSA program in 2019. Margaret is assisting with ACCY 501 & ACCY 502 in the iMSA program and teaching ACCY 501 for MSF students.
Oct 25
Taek Pae joined Gies this fall as a lecturer and as the director of the Margolis Market Information Lab. Taek comes to Gies from Meeder Investment Management, where he was a director of research. He teaches courses in investment & portfolio management and in data science and python for finance.
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.
Apr 07
Dhanashri Mandhani recognized a major problem facing millions of farmers in that country, and she’s getting a head start on bringing value to a society that needs it.
Jan 20
Looking to invest in disruptive innovation, Gies alumnus Stanley Choi has donated $100K in Bitcoin to integrate blockchain education into the academic and extracurricular experience at Gies.
Dec 15
Nine out of 10 corporate recruiters in the US expect interest in business school graduates to increase or remain stable for the next five years – and global demand is also strong.
Oct 15
Jim Bertram joined Gies as an instructor of finance this fall after spending 32 years in investment banking. He will be teaching Investment Banking (FIN 463) this fall and succeeding Rob Metzger as the director of the Investment Banking Academy in January.
Oct 13
Peter Cella (FIN ‘79) is one of a number of Gies alumni electing to use an extended provision from the wide-ranging CARES Act to take a charitable deduction in the amount of their cash gifts up to 100% of their adjusted gross income (AGI) in 2021.
Oct 11
A 1989 Gies alumnus with a bachelor’s in finance, Mike Vitek joined the College this fall as an instructor of finance. He’s spent his career at Arthur Andersen & Company, State Farm, Allstate, and a diversified financial services firm called Mesirow Financial.
Oct 11
Julia Hart is the new director of the Women in Finance Academy. Julia worked for the City of Champaign for 18 years and also has more than a decade of experience in information technology at the University of Illinois.
Aug 24
In the inaugural Gies Download podcast, host Tim Sinclair sits down with Director of Athletics at the University of Illinois and Gies Business alum, Josh Whitman (FIN '01) to talk about balancing academics and athletics, celebrating with student-athletes, and navigating the changing landscape of college athletics.
Aug 02
Four faculty members in the Gies Department of Finance have been awarded more than $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to support their project “The Long-Run Impacts of Natural Disasters on Mortality and Disease Burden Among US Elderly and Disabled Adults.”