After decades of service to Illinois Wesleyan, Ann Harding retired this month as director of Alumni Relations.

Read more about Ann’s commitment to IWU and its alumni, here.

Enjoy your retirement, Ann!

Join the new academic tradition known as the Summer Reading Program.  Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are reading:

 The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse.

• If you would like to participate in an alumni only book discussion group in Bloomington, Chicago or Washington DC, please click here to register or contact your area Alumni Regional President directly.
• Click here to RSVP for the campus book discussion group on Friday, August 20, 6-8pm.

Wednesday, September 3rd the author will be discussing his book at the President’s Convocation at 11 am at Westbrook Auditorium in Presser Hall, IWU.

Her current research interests include promoting patient centered-ness in cancer care; specifically, researching patient-centered care for patients with limited English proficiency and foreign-born patients. She received an MPP with a focus on health policy and a certificate in Health Administration and Policy from the University of Chicago and her BA in economics, international studies and French from Illinois Wesleyan University.

She is also interested in global applications of best practices for health care financing, patient safety and care delivery. Current work also includes a study analyzing the types of information minority elderly and their families seek in choosing nursing homes with the goal of stratifying national nursing home measures by race.

http://heller.brandeis.edu/phd/profiles/index.html

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Steve Brook ’03 manages the River City Rascals minor league baseball team and teaches at Fort Zumwalt South H.S.

Read the full article here:

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/other/river-city-rascals-look-to-rebound-this-season/article_2507eef0-9f6b-52b5-83aa-2aba67309c36.html