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"Eliminate the difference in healthcare between the poor and the rich" was ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine emeritus professor Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD (MED, 66) response to the medical school application question on why he wanted to pursue a medical career. In the ensuing…

Since Soumya Nair (MGT '13) graduated with her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Weatherhead School of Management, she has been in market research and insight roles with Kerry, a food and beverage company.  This year, Nair was honored with the Insight250 award presented by European…

Executive board members of Alpha Kappa Psi (AKPsi) echo the same reasons why they wanted to join the co-ed business fraternity: the sense of community and business knowledge of the members.  When third-year finance and data science major Daniella Navia switched to a business major as an…

Katya Wilkins joined the Weatherhead School of Management this month as the assistant director of alumni relations. In her new role, Wilkins will focus on increasing alumni engagement, as well as expanding and supporting Weatherhead affinity groups. Prior to Weatherhead, Wilkins was the membership…

In November, Greg Cooper joined the Weatherhead School of Management as the executive director for Executive Education. In this role, he will be working closely with the Executive Education team to bring the department to new heights and even greater success, he said.    Most recently, Cooper was…

ÃÛÌÒAPP postdoctoral fellow Oladayo Oyebanji has earned the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s Yoshikawa and High award for an abstract he presented at the society’s IDWeek in October. The award honors work that focuses on solving healthcare epidemiology,…

For two and a half days, 165 individuals made up of faculty, students, alumni and corporate and community partners, came together to participate in an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Summit. The mission was to form a future vision for the Weatherhead School of Management. It was both an inspiring and…

With a $3.99 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, biomedical engineers from ÃÛÌÒAPP and the University of Chicago will begin testing an implantable device that restores the sense of touch to breast cancer patients after reconstructive surgery. In this…

The Executive Doctorate in Business Administration Council (EDBAC) has long been connected to the Weatherhead School of Management.  The EDBAC was co-founded by Kalle Lyytinen, faculty director of Weatherhead’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program, along with Lars Mathiassen, who was…

Satish Nambisan, the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management and professor of design and innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, has been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate for the second year in a row—this year in the category of economics…