The University of Illinois Alumni Association honors the 2022 Alumni Achievement, Distinguished Service, Lou Liay Spirit, Honorary Alumni, Young Alumni, Diversity and Inclusion and Comeback Guest award recipients. Comeback Award Kevin Finke, ’92 MEDIA, is...
Illini Pride binds the more than University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, maintaining the lifelong connections that are forged by an Illinois education. In 1873—six years after the establishment of the Illinois Industrial University—20 graduates realized...
Mike Harring, ’72 LAS, believes in the transformative power of higher education. He’s very convincing on the subject, having been through a few major changes himself. A distinguished law career has taken him from...
James W. “Jimmy” Smith, MS ’84 ACES, PHD ’86 ACES, is the recipient of the 2019 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement. Established in 2001, the award celebrates the work of distinguished international graduates who have helped better...
Change and fireworks were in the air at the 2019 Homecoming Alumni Awards Gala. The annual event’s name and date were changed to coordinate with the University’s Homecoming Weekend, and fireworks lit up the...
“It’s quite a privilege,” William D. Forsyth III, ’86 BUS, says of becoming chair of the University of Illinois Alumni Association Board of Directors for 2019–21. Modesty notwithstanding, he is well suited to the...
It was a celebration long in the making. For weeks, moveable panels had concealed a large portion of the ground floor of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Workers hauled in wiring and tools, tall...
Robert H. Liebeck’s, ’61 ENG, MS ’62 ENG, PHD ’68 ENG, trailblazing career in aerodynamics has touched air, land and sea. A senior technical fellow and chief scientist for Boeing, he has led several classified,...
From a tasting with brother Bier Meisters to face time with top University of Illinois officials, a packed slate of events is planned for the Alumni Volunteer Leadership Conference, set for April 19-22 at...
“Who’d you see, John?” That was the first question my mother would ask my dad when he came home from errands, church, work. As a sales manager for Kellogg’s, he met many people. And...
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