BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan University alumna Lindsay Sicks, Class of 2006, was awarded one of five $2,000 scholarships given to optometry students nationwide by the Heart of America Contact Lens Society (HOACLS). She received a travel fellowship to attend the 2010 meeting of the HOACLS in Kansas City, Mo. held in February.
Sicks, a native of Orland Park, Ill. attends the Illinois College of Optometry (ICO) in Chicago. She was nominated for the award by the contact lens faculty at ICO and will be graduating in May with a Doctorate in Optometry.