Ryan Andersen ’17 has been selected as a soloist for the annual Henry Charles Memorial Concerto-Aria Concert. You can read more about it here.

Jamie Gradishar ’17 competes in the pole vault at the I-55 Triangular on Jan. 21 at the Shirk Center. The men’s and women’s indoor track teams claimed five first-place finishes at the meet.

(Photo by Sports Information Director Stew Salowitz ’76)

Brittany Straznickas ’17 presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in New Orleans in early January. Straznickas’s work as a Bruce and Norma Criley Summer Research Fellow helped inform the research presented through her conference poster, which was entitled “Feeding on the unseen: Ingestion and assimilation of bacteriophages by Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera),” which was co-authored by Professor of Biology William Jaeckle. Straznickas said her experience at the national conference helped her realize that there are often more questions than answers in science. After graduation, the biology major plans to work as a medical scribe for a year before applying to medical school. 

Art major Nancy Qu ’17 flameworks glass at a Carlisle CC torch as she learns how to manipulate a clear rod of glass to create sculpture. The School of Art now has a designated flameworking area — complete with a new ventilation system and lighting as well as a flameworking kiln used to heat and cool the students’ works of art in glass. The new area is a “really exciting and great place to work,” said Adjunct Assistant Professor Carmen Lozar, who teaches the course “3-Dimensional Glass.”

(Photo by Robert Frank III ’14)

Both the Men’s and Women’s swim teams defeated Millikin University and North Central College in double-dual action.  Seniors Andrew Younger, Ryan O’Toole, Meg Stanley, Baylee Hoecker, and Savannah Feher all placed first during the meet.  Read the full article here.

Cindy Basilio ’17, Regina Blaskie ’17, Emily Brown ’17, Madalyn Browning-Perry ’17, Molly Johnson ’17, Nubari Kanee ’17, Preslav Mantchev ’17, and Kyle Serafico ’17 will head to Washington, D.C. over spring break as participants in the University’s Career Immersion Excursion. Read the full article about the Career Immersion Excursion here.

Seniors Maurice Shoemaker-Gilmore and Sean Garvey earn top 2016 IWU Football Honors.

Garvey was elected for the third straight season as the defensive “Most Valuable Player”. Shoemaker-Gilmore was chosen as the offensive MVP for the 2016 Illinois Wesleyan Football team. Read the full story here.

Shoemaker-Gilmore was also named to the second team of the D3football.com 2016 all-North Region squad.  Read the full story here.