{"id":837,"date":"2018-09-20T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/?p=837"},"modified":"2018-09-20T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:47:27","slug":"debo-olaosebikan-named-outstanding-young-alumnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/2018\/09\/20\/debo-olaosebikan-named-outstanding-young-alumnus\/","title":{"rendered":"Debo Olaosebikan Named Outstanding Young Alumnus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The 2018 Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus will be presented to Debo Olaosebikan \u201906 Alumni Award at Homecoming on October 5th at the Alumni Awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Center\u2019s, Young Main Lounge in recognition of outstanding professional achievement and civic leadership. Olaosebikan is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Gigster, a smart software development service utilized by top businesses including Staples, Airbus and MasterCard. Olaosebikan came to Illinois Wesleyan from Nigeria as a Presidential Scholar at 16 years old and was named the IWU Anderson Scholar for 2005-06. Olaosebikan pursued graduate-level physics at Cornell University, where he represented Cornell in a collaboration with MIT, Stanford and Caltech to build the world\u2019s first electrically activated silicon laser, a project supported by $6 million in grants. Olaosebikan has demonstrated his dedication to promoting education through a variety of scholarships and educational opportunities for students in Nigeria, including CATCH AFRICA, a scholarship competition for secondary school students. A link to the full article may be found here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2018 Robert M. Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus will be presented to Debo Olaosebikan \u201906 Alumni Award at Homecoming on October 5th at the Alumni Awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Center\u2019s, Young Main Lounge in recognition of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}