Brittany Ambler from Bloomington, IL is working at Bigfork Summer Playhouse in Montana this Summer. This season she will be playing the following roles: Maria (Innkeeper’s Wife) – Man of La Mancha, Flapper Ancestor – The Addams Family, Connie Boylan/etc – Annie, and Rusty – Footloose.
Congratulations Brittany!
I recently started working for another IWU alum, Janel Patterson who graduated in 1992 with a degree in International Business. After a unsettling encounter with an online predator experienced by her oldest daughter, Janel took matters into her own hand. Janel has worked diligently over the past five years to build Frienedy into the first private group networking application that is family-friendly and suitable for users of all ages. Janel has worked hard at making sure Frienedy is COPPA (Children’s online privacy protection act) compliant which sets Frienedy apart from various other social media sites. Frienedy is gaining great traction in St. Louis, where Janel currently resides, and throughout the country. Janel reached out to Business Professor Fred Hoyt and that is how the two of us became connected and began working together. In the first few weeks, Janel has already served as such a fabulous role model and exemplified true characteristics of a Titan.
On April 9, Titans of all generations pulled together and showed their pride on the third annual All In For Wesleyan. More than 1,800 gifts of all sizes from 49 states and 17 countries totaled over $500,000 in support of Illinois Wesleyan University and our students. Our collective philanthropy served as an inspiration to the next generation as All In For Wesleyan firmly established itself as an Illinois Wesleyan tradition, both on campus and off. The class of 2015 had 56 donors on April 9th and donations totaling $927.61.
Thank you 2015 Alumni for being “all in” all the time, and for continuing to make Illinois Wesleyan one of your giving priorities. If you have already made your gift this year, thank you! If you have not made your gift this year, I hope that you will join me as a donor and put us one more gift closer to our participation goal. You can make your gift by visiting iwu.edu/give. It is your support that keeps Illinois Wesleyan strong, and develops the next generation of leaders.
Earl and Marian A. Beling Professor of Natural Sciences Tian-Xiao He and one of his students, Tung Nguyen ’15, published “Construction of spline type orthogonal scaling functions and wavelets,” Journal of Applied Functional Analysis, 10 (2015), No. 3-4, 189-203.
Nguyen has been awarded a full scholarship to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Congratulations Tung!
4/16/15 International Studies Program 24th Annual Senior Recognition Ceremony. The Technos Award recipient Olive Kemi Adeleye Adjumoke. Davidson Room, Memorial Center. Olive Kemi Adeleye Adjumoke. Photos by William Frank.
Kemi won the Technos International Prize, recognizing her academic excellence and commitment to international awareness and understanding.Kemi plans to teach English in a French-speaking country before she goes to graduate school to pursue a master’s degree. Read the full article here.
Congratulations Kemi!
2015-04-17 Physics student Margaret McCarter ’15, who won a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her research. Center for Natural Sciences. Photo by Marc Featherly
The National Science Foundation has awarded Margaret McCarter ’15 a three-year Graduate Research Fellowship – among the most competitive graduate fellowships nationwide. Read the full article here.
Congratulations Margaret!
Two students discussed the next steps they are going to take towards their future careers. For the next two years, Amanda King an Environmental Studies major will be serving in the Peace Corp in West Africa.
Donald DeSalvo a History/ Secondary Education major will be working as a secondary mathematics teacher at a charter school called American Preparatory Academy at their new campus in Las Vegas, Nevada beginning this fall. He is currently spending one month training at one of APA’s campuses in Utah, getting the opportunity to observe classes, do some teaching, and substitute teach before he moves to Las Vegas at the beginning of June. Read the full article and see the news clip here.
Tim Coonan ’15. who came to Bloomington-Normal from Europe, says he’s kept his brotherly bond strong at Illinois Wesleyan with brother Sean Coonan ’17.
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION recipient Nunzia Martino, THE KAY NELSON MEMORIAL ESSAY PRIZE recipient Olivia Anderson, and THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS PRIZE recipient Erica Kucharski
Among winners of the 2015 Creative Writing Awards at Illinois Wesleyan, Olivia Anderson ’15 won the Kay Nelson Memorial Essay Prize for her essay “Blood Tide” and Erica Kucharski ’15 won the American Poets Prize for her series of poems. Read the full article here.
Congratulations Olivia and Erica!
Nathan says a semester abroad in Barcelona was life-changing, and he’s returning to Spain this summer on scholarship for a month-long study abroad program.