Through Illinois Wesleyan’s Action Research Seminar, Katie Cavender ’21 earned a $3,310 “Beyond the Books” grant to fund a student literary and art journal for local high school students.
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Previously a scientific mystery, a team of six Illinois Wesleyan University student researchers recently resolved why increasing levels of thyroid hormone support faster rates of nerve growth within the eye.
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The Hart Career Center’s annual First Destination Survey found that 97.2% of 2019 graduates were employed or enrolled in higher education programs within six months of graduating from Illinois Wesleyan.
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Qinfan Jiang ’12 was awarded the most prestigious Ph.D. dissertation award in musicology by the American Musicological Society, an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship for “Toward a Global Enlightenment: Music, Missionaries, and the Construction of a Universal History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China and Europe.”
She graduated from IWU in 2012 and went on to earn a Master’s in Music from Rice University. She is currently pursuing her PhD (also in Musicology) from Columbia University.
Faizal Chaudhury ’96, Vice President of Customer Centricity at Salliemae, recently joined the advisory board for the Council on American-Islamic Relations Philadelphia Chapter.
Read more on Faizal Chaudhury from CAIR Philadelphia.
Shannon Zenk ’95 has been named director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health. A registered nurse and leading nurse researcher, Zenk is currently Nursing Collegiate Professor in the Department of Population Health Nursing Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing, and a fellow at the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy. She is expected to begin her new role as the NINR director in early fall.
Read more on NIH taps Dr. Shannon Zenk as director of the National Institute of Nursing Research from National Institutes of Heath
Wendell and Loretta Hess Professor of Chemistry Ram Mohan, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1992, was featured in the UMBC Magazine for winning his second Fulbright Teacher-Scholar Grant, to teach Green Chemistry in India.
Read more on Sharing a Love of Green Chemistry – Ram Mohan, Ph.D. ’92 from UMBC Magazine
Tonya Horn ’01, president of Rogards Office Plus and a past Central Illinois Business 40 Under 40 honoree, was featured in a series spotlighting local leaders.
Read more on Beyond the Boardroom: Tonya Horn by Jeff D’Alessio from The (Champaign) News-Gazette
Rob Wuethrich ’21 and Jimmy Morton ’22 of the Illinois Wesleyan University men’s golf team were chosen to compete in the 120th Annual North and South Amateur Golf Championships at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in North Carolina.
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Head Swimming Coach, Teresa Fish, was elected to the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Board of Directors.
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