The attached photo was recently taken at the IWU Alumni Chicago Bar Crawl. Amelia Anderson ’11 and Kelly Cook ’12 are featured in the photo, as well as many others. Alumni events are great ways to connect with other alumni and reminisce with friends from college!
Nick has spent the summer in China, via a grant, setting up a new physics lab outside of Beijing and working on physics research. On July 15, 2014, he was published in the American Physical Society Journal. You can read his first publication here.
He will have a busy fall this year – he will be in his 4th year of a Physics PhD program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Congratulations to Nick on his outstanding achievements and upcoming endeavors!
Jason Roeschley’s mother (Debra Fansher Roeschley ’76) would love to share some great news for her son! We would like to join her in congratulating Jason on this wonderful honor!
“I am the proud parent of Jason Roeschley ’11 who was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship his senior year at IWU to teach in Mexico. I am planning to travel to Aguascalientes, Mexico
often to visit him where he recently began teaching at International House after recieving his master’s degree in Spanish linguistics from Illinois State University.”
After decades of service to Illinois Wesleyan, Ann Harding retired this month as director of Alumni Relations. We wish her nothing but the best on all of her future endeavors!
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.
Tori Samson is now a TV/digital sales planner for the San Francisco offices of GSN Games. The multimedia entertainment company offers original and classic online, mobile and social game programming and competitive entertainment via its 77-million subscriber television network and online sites. Congratulations, Tori!
72 members of the Class of 2011 went All-In for Wesleyan and helped IWU raise over $800,000 in 24 hours! Great job, everyone!
Chao Ren has completed one MA at Harvard in Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School, now at Tufts (studying with former IWU professor Brian Hatcher) also on South Asia and South Asian religions. Chet Sheldon and his wife Helen ’40 were Chao’s “host family” all four years at IWU. Chao visited the Sheldon home in Minneapolis when he was presenting a paper at an academic conference at the U of Minnesota. Congratulations on this fantastic accomplishment, Chao!
IWU and the Hart Career Center are so grateful that Claire Karlen of The Autism Place and Hannah Jones of Springfield Public Schools (both class of ’11) returned to campus on March 25 to speak about what careers are possible with a psychology degree. Both women provided lots of wonderful advice for current undergrads! Thanks again, ladies!
Ade Olayinka spoke at the session “Advocating for Social Justice: Make a Living Working for Change” speaking about her experience in the public policy program at Duke University. Thank you, Ade!