Bloomington-Normal was ranked among the 50 best college towns in America!

Find out where we’re ranked.

Professor of Physics, Gabe Spalding will be featured at the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego, August 17-21. He will present research co-authored by recent IWU physics grad “Sunny” Qing Ding ’13, “Optical trapping with pillar bowtie nanoantennas,”.

Ding is pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbaba-Champaign!

Nick Nichols is now a Systems Summer Intern Speech Program Lead and delivered the keynote address for the Speech Competition Finals and the yearly EDIT Conference for high school students at State Farm.

Congratulations on all your achievements, Nick!

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

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

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.

Josh has joined LKCS as a sales and marketing assistant.

Read more about Josh’s new position here.

Congrats on the job, Josh!

Artist Leeya Jackson ’13 chose Illinois Wesleyan because it’s a liberal arts college where she could incorporate “crazy whacky courses” into her major.

Click to read her full article in College Lifestyles.

Great choice, Leeya!

from left to right: JJ Novak ’16, Christina Hoblin ’13, Kelly Lamorena ’14, Jenna Haimes ’14

Christina and a few other IWU students have been performing in the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (CAST) in Iowa!

A performance of “Wonderful Town”, which was awarded a Tony Award for Best Musical, ran from July 24 to August 2. Jenna Haimes ’14, played the lead role of Ruth. Christina was joined in the orchestra by fellow Titans, JJ Novak ’16 and Kelly Lamorena ’14.

Congratulations to you all on an exciting experience!

More than 5,000 alumni showed their support by making a gift to IWU in fiscal year 2014!

And for the second year straight, Illinois Wesleyan alumni have grown our alumni giving percentage. We are now at 23%!

THANK YOU for doing your part to keep IWU strong.  

IWU’s fiscal year ends TODAY – July 31 – Thank you if you’ve already made your annual gift!

Now help us find the 47 additional alumni donors we need to reach our participation goal by today. Organizations view alumni participation as the metric that measures alumni satisfaction. It affects IWU’s ranking, bond rating, and ability to earn grants, so make your gift today at iwu.edu/give to keep IWU strong!  Every donor counts!