Thank you for being All In For Wesleyan in so many ways.

You’ve Done Well, and Done Good!

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 2016 meet this Challenge.  Click this link to donate https://www.iwu.edu/all-in  You can also see how 2016 is doing in the challenge.

You can see All In on campus by clicking here.

Mike Hennel ’16 attended the Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company Private Equity Conference in Chicago with the Illinois Wesleyan Investment Club.

Cassidy Tarpey ’16 attended the annual American Marketing association conference in St. Louis.

Megan Win ’16 presented “Chasing Joy” and Kathy Tun ’16 presented “A Conversation in Broken English” at the Council for IWU Women Summit, She Speaks, Petchakucha Powered Event on February 26, 2016.

Seniors Kimberly Mensah and Rosie Mallet attended the 10th Illinois Wesleyan University Women’s Summit on Feb. 26 and 27. The event brings female staff, students, and alumnae together in celebration.

Photo of Kimberly Mensah ’16 by: Lori Ann Cook-Neisler

(Pictured above) Rosie Mallet ’16

The Illinois Wesleyan University Ethics Bowl team visited Washington, D.C. the day before competing in a national competition. It was the third time in five years an IWU team has competed in the national Ethics Bowl.

(From left) Anna Moczynski ’16, Nick Bates ’16, Eric Hyla ’16, Hang (Jade) Phung ’17, and Steph McAtee ’16.

IWU political science major Melissa Guzman was invited by Chicago alderman Sylvia Torres to attend the annual United States Hispanic Leadership Institute Conference after an interview over the phone for Guzman’s senior seminar project, which focused on the underrepresentation of Latina women in government positions.

Guzman is extending her work for Research Honors.

Senior sociology and Hispanic studies double major Julie Lewis was awarded $1,500 for her project to install 25 new benches at bus stops on the west side of Bloomington.

Lewis will also receive assistance from the Action Research Center (ARC) to implement her idea. The benches will be installed in May 2016.

On Jan. 25, 2016 IWU Senior Mary Kate Schmidt was named to the first team of the D3soccer.com 2015 NCAA Division III All-American squads for women’s soccer.

Schmidt was chosen to the second team in the 2014 Division III All-American squads. She was also named the CCIW “Player of the Year” — a first for an IWU women’s soccer player — as well as the CCIW “Player of the Week” five times in 2015.