Keelia Rhoads received her Ph.D. in toxicology at Wisconsin-Madison,

and an M.S. in genetic counseling at the University of Colorado at Denver.

She is now a cancer genetic counselor in the Hereditary Cancer Clinic at Duke.

According to LinkedIn, she has worked at the cancer center since Dec. 2012, where she:
-counsels people on their personal and family history of cancer and
coordinate genetic testing for potential hereditary cancer syndromes.
-reviews medical management and screening recommendations for
individuals testing positive for a hereditary cancer syndrome and
refer patients to specialists, when appropriate.

Click the photo to see what exciting memorabilia Meg Miner – University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian – has requested.

Alicia Rodriguez beautifully sings her rendition of the song “Aint No Sunshine When It’s Gone”.

Happy Holidays from the Robinson Family!

-Jon ’05, Justine ’06 & Joey ’35

Gena (Rawlins) Melick and alumni Brian Rawlins ’01,  Van Miller ’04 (aka “IronVan”), and Matthew Melick ’03  completed the 2013 Ironman Louisville competition, held on Aug. 24 in Louisville, Ky.  Competitors swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and ran a marathon. See the results.

As the director of human resources at The Horton Group, one of the largest privately held insurance brokers in the nation, Katie Cummins joined more than 50 other employers at this year’s IWU Internship Fair.  Katie, who was an intern herself less than a decade ago, brings a unique perspective. As a student, Cummins took the advice of then-internship coordinator Ann Harding (now director of alumni relations), who suggested that she apply for an HR internship at Bloomington-based Afni.  Now Cummins directs HR functions for Horton’s 300 employees. 

Pat used to work in IT for IWU and now is one of two people who works for Fermi Labs in what is called Scientific Linux. They help redesign research software for use in laboratories around the world. They have also worked with the scientists conducting research with the super-collider in CERN. In fact, when some of those scientists recently received the Nobel Prize in Physics, they thanked Scientific Linux, half of which are alumni! Pat was a philosophy major at IWU who also knew his way around a computer. He sits on our alumni advisory board for IT.

A cookout hosted for some of our IWU friends last weekend at our home in La Grange Park

Included in the photo: