Amanda Larsen is an intern at the Humanitarian Service Project, where she will complete her community service practicum while she studies Couple and Family Therapy at the Adler School of Professional Psychology.

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

Dan La Rocca has earned All-Academic honors for his combined efforts in pole vault competition and in the classroom from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

TangleKnot Theatre in Chicago presented Joan Holden’s Nickel and Dimed as its inaugural production July 19 through Aug. 11.

TangleKnot’s Artistic Director Dani Snyder-Young is assistant professor of theatre arts and head of the Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts program at Illinois Wesleyan. She also directed Nickel and Dimed, with alumna Britnee Ruscitti ’10 who served as assistant director. Curtis Trout, director of the School of Theatre Arts, was the production’s scenic designer. Alumnus Tristan Meredith ’12 was lighting designer, and Celeste V. Kelley ’13 designed Nickel’s costumes. Antonio Gracias ’12 was the production’s sound designer. Current student Sarah Menke ’15 received an Eckley Summer Scholar fellowship to serve as assistant stage manager and audience development and outreach associate. The project was funded in part by an Illinois Wesleyan Artistic and Scholarly Development grant to Snyder-Young and Trout.

Daniel LaRocca of Palatine, Ill., Kyle Connour ’15 and Chelsea Davitt ’14, both of Bloomington all made precise observations of asteroids resulting in the designation of the University’s Mark Evans Observatory as an official observing site.   Under the direction of Chair and Professor of Physics Linda French, the three also installed a new telescope and charge-coupled device (CCD) camera at the observatory.

Daniel also worked with Prof. Linda French, studying the properties of trojan asteroids at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. He is the co-author of the papers titled ” A Rotation Study of Jovian Trojan Asteroids” , by L.M. French, R.D. Stephens, L.H. Wasserman, D. Coley, D.A. Rohl, D. La Rocca, N. Jaggi and S.M. Lederer, and “A Troop of Trojans:  Photometry of 24 Jovian Trojan Asterioids”, by L.M. French, R.D. Stephens, D.C. Coley, L.H. Wasserman, F.Vilas, and D.M. La Rocca.

Chelsea Davitt ’14, Daniel LaRocca ’13 and Kyle Connour ’15 pose with the new telescope in the Mark Evans Observatory.

Chris Francis ’13 published a review of Nathan Schneider’s book, God In Proof, in Yes!magazine.  He blogs about books at thenarrativereview.wordpress.com.

A west Bloomington neighborhood will see a wave of housing revitalization, thanks to a $1.5 million grant to a new community group whose partners include Illinois Wesleyan’s Action Research Center (ARC) and the city of Bloomington.

ARC Coordinator Deborah Halperin said IWU involvement included Jenny Long ’13, who helped with research as part of the University’s grant writingseminar and interned with the West Bloomington Revitalization Project (WBRP) last spring; Matt Lalonde ’14, whose Tool Library at the WBRP will gain support from grant funds; Professor of Political Science Greg Shaw, who is the housing chair of the WBRP; and University Librarian Karen Schmidt, city council member and WBRP board member.

Recent graduates Brittany Levens and Rebecca Candra and Amy Seter ’15 have been chosen as All-American Scholars for 2012-13 by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association.

Logan Kent was selected among the top 10 semi-finalists in Entrepreneur Magazine’s college entrepreneur contest for his Mail To business idea.

Lisa Peltekian was named the University’s Outstanding Marketing Student by the St. Louis professional chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA).  Peltekian was honored at the chapter’s 52nd annual student marketing conference on Friday, Feb. 22 in St. Louis.