Today is All In for Wesleyan at IWU. Dr. Randy Reed ’73 has offered to give $500 for each class year with 30 donors today, and an additional $500 for each class with 60 donors. Seriously – every dollar counts! Help the class of 2014 meet this Challenge. Click this link to donate https://www.iwu.edu/all-in You can also see how 2014 is doing in the challenge.
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A second year student in the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin, Thomas Sobrya ’14 was awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) by the National Science Foundation.
Two publications coauthored by Sobrya were published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, one of which was also coauthored by fellow Alumni Jennifer Faust ’10 who is currently in a post-doc position in Canada.
More about Sobrya’s field of study and the Fellowship can be read here
During the Council for Illinois Wesleyan University Women Summit on February 26, Cathy Geehan ’14 presented “Female Tech Entrepreneurs in Jordan” at the Hansen Student Center as part of She Speaks, Petchakucha Powered Event.
Cavanaugh ’14 photograph by Robert Frank III
Interested in what has been happening at Illinois Wesleyan Univeristy since you graduated? You can sate your curiosity with this beautiful gallery of photos from the past month captured by Robert Frank III. Events recently have included a production of Hamlet, speaker Eboo Patel, and Thank a Giver Day.
View the gallery here
Nicole Besa ’14, who was known as Nicole Chamberlin during her time at Illinois Wesleyan, will be in the ensemble of The King and I at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Nicole Besa ’14
Samantha Olson ’14, a second-year graduate student in the University of Illinois’ Biomedical Visualization program worked to design the new logo for the National Museum of Health + Medicine Chicago.
In the announcement article on the new logo, Olson said “My peers had also developed beautiful, insightful logos. We all pushed each other in the project, and that family-like support is why I love my graduate program at UIC.”
More about the design of the logo and Olson’s work on it can be read here
Congratulations to Erin Sweeney from the Class of 2014! Sweeney was selected to be a part of the PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2016.
During her time at IWU, Sweeney joined AGD, worked as president of AMA and of SAAC, and played on the softball team. She graduated with a degree in business administration with a focus in marketing.
Twenty in their Twenties is a program that is designed to engage the best and brightest in the Meetings, Conventions, and Business Events industry. Those selected will have the PCMA platform to exhibit their talents and share how they will shape the meetings industry in the future.
More about the program can be read here.
Illinois Wesleyan University alumni attended the IWU Internship Fair on 28 September 2015 to recruit current students for their companies.
Bethany Presutti ’14 represented BKD, Natalia Enda ’14 for The Horton Group and Nick Scheiper ’14 also for the Horton Group.