Dan Wasiolek ’98, senior equity analyst with Morningstar Research Services, shares investment strategies and thoughts on the idea of an impending recession. You can read the full article here.

Director of Oncology at Riverside Cancer Institute, Dr. Annabelle Veerapaneni ’98, discussed breast cancer prevention measures in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. You can read more here.

Laura Warren ’98 was named by Crain’s Chicago Business as a Notable Gen X Leader in Sports. You can read the full article here.

Rich Kurtzman ’98 is the author of Like a Fish in Water: How to Grow Abroad When You Go Abroad, a guide to studying and living abroad, which will be published later this month. Like a Fish in Water prepares readers to be comfortable, confident and ready to take on the world, even in unfamiliar territory. Shaped by his own study abroad experiences in St. Petersburg and Madrid, and an internship in Milan, Rich has spent more than 20 years living and working in Barcelona, overseeing study abroad programs and coaching multinational organizations. More information is available at FishinWaterBook.com. 

John Baines ’98, head coach of the Elmhurst University men’s basketball team, was named the D3hoops.com Region 8 Coach of the Year after leading the Bluejays to a single-season school-record 27 wins and the program’s first-ever trip to the Final Four in 2021-22. Elmhurst lost to Randolph-Macon College in the national championship game on March 19, 2022. John has been the Bluejays’ head coach since 2013, posting an overall record of 148-84 in nine seasons at the helm. As a player at Illinois Wesleyan, John played in four NCAA Tournaments and won a national championship in 1997.

Elizabeth Nohren ’98, the public administrator and public guardian of Shelby County, was appointed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to serve in the same role for Effingham, Fayette and Montgomery counties.

Sarah Fincham ’98 was recently promoted to clinical associate professor at Washington State University, where she is a faculty member in WSU’s Doctor of Nursing Practice-Family Nurse Practitioner program in the College of Nursing.

Bill Murphy ’98, a prolific researcher in biomedical engineering, delivered the 2022 Founders’ Day Convocation keynote address titled “Mimicking Nature to Create New Technology.” The event was held on January 12, 2022, but you can still watch it at www.iwu.edu/live.