Summer Internship at Verizon Wireless with Illinois State Alumnus

Position Title: Summer Intern (Intranet Development) Company: Verizon Wireless – Schaumburg, IL Full time/Part time: Full time Internship /Temporary/Permanent:  Internship Description: The incumbent will be coding enhancements to our large “knowledge base” application on our intranet using PHP (and other technologies). The selected candidate will develop and enhance micro-sites/web pages for internal communications on a

2011 Grads See Brighter Future….

For the first time since 2007, employers report a double-digit increase in their spring hiring projections, according to results of NACE’s 2011 Job Outlook Spring Update. The first hiring projections made for the Class of 2011 in the JobOutlook 2011 Fall Preview showed a planned increase in hiring of 13.5 percent for this year’s crop

Two College of Business seniors and an alum chosen as Fulbright Scholars

Bill Gugerty, an Illinois State University Honors alumnus with his B.S./MPA and CPA from Aurora Bill Gugerty worked in his field for two years before moving to a nonprofit organization, serving on its Board of Directors as treasurer. Gugerty will travel to Moldova, where he will perform case study and comparative research of Moldovan microfinance institutions.

Business Week 2011 brought together students, alumni, and industry partners

Business Week is the signature event in the College of Business. It brings together students, alumni, and industry partners for a week-long series of events designed specifically to enhance students’ professional readiness and soft skills. Participation in this year’s events involved more than 2,000 participants and included an etiquette and networking dinner, mock interviews, alumni

Enroll in the TEACHER+PLUS Project

The TEACHER+PLUS Project (Teacher Education and Assessment Continuum for High-need Educators and Resources + Principal Leadership for Urban Schools) is a special initiative at Illinois State University. The TEACHER+PLUS Project is open to all teacher education majors who have interests in pursuing employment in the Chicago Public Schools. The central goal of this initiative is

Alumni Return to Advise Graduates on Future

A panel of School of Information Technology alumni will return to ISU on May 6 to join in a celebration of graduating students’ achievements and discuss life after graduation. New graduates will benefit from alumni advice on making the transition from academic life to working life and what to expect of their new career.

IT Faculty Honors

Dr. Tibor Gyires, School of Information Technology, was awarded the Hungarian Neumann Award by the John von Neumann Computer Society in Hungary.  Past recipients include Bill Gates and Andrew Grove (the founder and CEO of Intel). The award is presented to those eminent international or Hungarian-born computer scientists whose professional activities have contributed to the development of Hungarian

Software Developer Opportunity

Position Title:  Entry-level Software Developer Company:  Charles Schwab in Denver, Colorado Full time/Part time:  Full time Internship /Temporary/Permanent:  Permanent Description: Organization Objective/Purpose: Customer and Account Technology is part of the Client Trading & Solutions organization within Schwab Technology Services.  We are primarily responsible for maintaining and supporting cross-enterprise customer and account data, business rules, and interfaces

IT Newsmakers

Dr. James Wolf, School of Information Technology, was interviewed about his research on physicians and their reluctance to use evidence-based decision support tools to diagnose patients – HealthLeaders Magazine Read the article here and another article here.