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.

Nick has recently begun volunteering as one of several instructors for Bloomington-Normal high school students looking to compete in the annual Black Data Processing Associates Coding Competition.

Christina Hoblin was Province College Leadership Award winner in national magazine for the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity.

Congratulations, Christina!

Sean Cavenagh and Samantha Krueger ’12 were sworn in today as Peace Corps Volunteers in Mozambique. Sean will be serving in Quissico, Inhambane and Samantha will be serving in Cuamba, Niassa, both in Mozambique, for two years.

Congratulations!

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.

Mary Heath, Lisa Peltekian, and Max Polisky all were on tv! They were part of AMC’s reality tv show, The Pitch. To read the rest of their story please click here.

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.