Nick Anderson ’14, IWU Business alumnus and star basketball player, has finished a Finalist in the National Collegiate Athletic Association‘s (NCAA) Elite 89 Academic Recognition Award Program. According to the NCAA’s website, the Elite 89 Award “recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers” and is “presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s 89 championships.” Anderson, with an outstanding 3.97 GPA, received the Elite 89 award for the 2014 NCAA Division III men’s basketball championship.

Nick Anderson ’14

The new “Fan Favorite” portion of the award allows fans to vote for their favorite recipient of the Elite 89 award, with the winner receiving additional recognition from the NCAA. After advancing to the Semifinals and Finals, Anderson finished fourth with a total of 2,010 votes.

Congratulations, Nick!

View the final vote tally here and read about Anderson’s advancement to the Semifinals here.

Harrison Freeland ’14 has been hired as senior associate in the Champaign office of Murray Wise Associates. According to the Business and Professional Briefs in Champaign’s News-Gazette, Freeland will “assist in marketing efforts for auctions, financial modeling and valuation for Murray Wise Capital and crop scouting and reporting with the company’s farm management team in Iowa.”

Congratulations, Harrison!

Harrison Freeland ’14

Read the full article here.

Through the healthcare internship community Work the World, nursing alumna Hannah Smith spent three weeks this summer as a midwifery intern at Mount Meru Regional Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. She witnessed over 40 births over the course of her internship, performed eight deliveries independently, and worked as the nurse in three cesarean sections.

Hannah Smith ’14 cradling a newborn

“What I liked most about my internship placement were the experiences that I would not likely see in the United States,” said Smith. “Being immersed in a culture where fetal heart tones are taken only every four to six hours on a woman in labor and documentation is done on a scrap of paper helped me grow to appreciate the charting and standards that we have in the United States.”

Read the full article here.