Kimberly Wenger ’15 and Kelsey Emmert ’15 and their respective teams took first and second place in COUNTRY Financial’s annual case study competition for summer interns!
Read more about their experiences here.
Congratulations, Kimberly and Kelsey!!
Nikolay Karnev ’15 worked in London this summer as a financial analyst intern for BlackRock, a company that manages more than $4.5 trillion in assets.
As an Eckley Summer Scholar and Artist, Kiri Stauch ’15 investigating what domestic dogs understand about human intentions.
Thomas Simmons ’15 is spending his summer studying ways to improve computer security with a mathematical function used in cryptography, thanks to an Eckley Scholar award.
Michael Kistner ’15 is spending his summer examining polarization’s effects on the productivity of state legislatures as an Eckley Summer Scholar and Artist.
Eckley scholar Natalie Hoijer ’15 is bridging her academic majors to investigate relationships between mathematical symmetries and classical music.
Congratulations to you all on a summer well spent! Enjoy senior year!
Franny studied abroad in Morocco this spring through a program that focuses on journalism and new media. As part of the program, students work with experienced journalists at Round Earth Media to produce feature stories.
Read Franny’s guest feature story, here.
Learn more about the program that brought Franny to Morocco– SIT Morocco: Field Studies in Journalism and New Media
International business major Steve Losos ’15 attended the first ever U.S.-China Student Summit in Beijing this summer.
Congrats, Steve!!!
Gabe Aprati ’15 tied for eighth in the 84th Illinois State Amateur Championship at Catigny Golf.
Read his interview in the Southtown Star.
Congrats on your great achievement, Gabe! Good luck in your senior season.
Alan, a computer science major, is interning this summer with Google, Inc. in Los Angeles! He’s currently working with AdWords.
CLICK HERE to read more about Alan’s awesome experience.
CLICK HERE to keep up with Alan on his blog.
Congrats on the internship, Alan!!
Michael Wettengel (2015), English writing Major and History Major independently published a fantasy novel entitled Garamoush via Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing service. Michael published his book through Amazon after attending a colloquium in 2014 about various methods of independent publishing, presented by Illinoisan paranormal mystery author Terri Reid.
Purchase his book here!
Congratulations, Michael!
Amy was named as an All-American Scholar by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA)! Read more about her acheivements, here.
Congratulations, Amy!
In the Comparative Cognition Lab of IWU’s Center for Natural Sciences, Ellen Furlong, an assistant professor of psychology, is working with her student researchers, Brenden Wall and Jeff Toraason, in developing computer games.
But not for us.
These games, when the apps are finally developed, will be designed to help alleviate the boredom, stasis and isolation plaguing pets left home alone all day by their 9-to-5 masters, or consigned to shelters.
Learn more about their research here.
Gina participated in a two-day United States-China Student Summit in Beijing, which focused on economic cooperation between the world powers.
Read more about Gina’s amazing experience, here.
Congratulations, Gina!