Category: Student News

Accounting students from Wisconsin School of Business were finalists at the 14th annual competition.

When Rodney Lynk graduates this May, he will be the first participant of the Wisconsin School of Business PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning) to graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Wisconsin School of Business.

Edward (Jed) Frees, Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, and David Schweidel, Marketing, were honored with research awards. Student research awards were given to PhD candidates.

The full-time Wisconsin MBA competed in the 2009 Big 10 Case Competition held in Columbus, Ohio. Wisconsin also competed in the 2009 CIBER Case Competition, in Lawrence, Kan.

This year’s Burrill Business Plan Competition attracted a record number of entrants.

Each semester, the Business, Environment and Social Responsibility (BESR) program at the Wisconsin School of Business offers a BESR Community Forum. The first Community Forum was offered this spring and focused on the topic, “Sustainability Meets Entrepreneurship.”

The Wisconsin MBA team raised $9,313 for Special Olympics by participating in the group’s Polar Plunge fundraiser.

Wisconsin MBA students in Operations and Technology Management and Applied Security Analysis won the APICS Case Competition, held February 21-22.

Students studying Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business had the chance to learn what it’s like to run their own insurance company.

An undergraduate business student, Christine Ly, received the Alliant Energy/Erroll B. Davis Jr. Achievement Award.