February 11, 2021 MACOMB, IL - - Western Illinois University Master of Science in Quantitative Economics graduate student and Master of Business Administration alumna (2019) Marine Foray, of Lyon, France, has been invited to share her research by the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University at a joint conference this month.
The event, which will be held virtually Friday, Feb. 12 and Friday, Feb. 19, is a special conference on experimental insights on behavioral economics on COVID-19. Invited speakers from Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania will present. Marine Foray is an exceptional grad student having already completed her MBA (through the Atlantis program) and is now finishing her joint pursuit of the M.S. in Q-Economics and ASDA, said Jessica Harriger-Lin, interim director for the WIU School of Accounting, Finance, Economics, and Decision Sciences. Dr. [WIU Assistant Professor of Economics Jobu]
February 2, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL - - The Western Illinois University Business Analytics program has graduated its first student, Elijah Elkerton, of Minneapolis, MN.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) approved a new Bachelor of Business in business analytics at Western Illinois University to begin in Fall 2018.
Elkerton, who joined Western s graduate program in analytics, Master of Science in Applied Statistics and Decision Analytics (ASDA), this spring, not only chose to come to Western to play on the Division I football team, but also because he was looking for a school that had an undergraduate and graduate program to allow him to enter the data science or analytics field.