2025 Alumni Awards
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Temple Grandin Temple Grandin, PHD ’89 ACES, HON ’04, designs livestock-handling facilities and is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. An animal behavior expert,
A Material Guy
Taeghwan Hyeon, PHD ’96 LAS, has received the university’s 2025 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement. As director of the Center for Nanoparticle Research in
Mother Ocean
In his 14th novel, Richard Powers, ’78 LAS, MA ’80 LAS, weaves a complex, multigenerational story about artists, tech billionaires, oceanographers and a remote island in the South Pacific. You
Illini Engager
The University of Illinois Alumni Association Board of Directors has named Cedric D. Thurman, ’87 BUS, as its new chair. A UIAA Board member since 2018, he succeeds Norma J.
Dig This!
In Disturbing the Bones (Melville House, 2024), Andrew Davis, ’68 MEDIA, and Jeff Biggers weave a geopolitical conspiracy thriller that’s set almost entirely within the state of Illinois—filled with war
A Man of Many People
Mohamad Maliki bin Osman, PHD ’98 SW, received the University’s 2024 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement, recognizing his work to better his native Singapore
The University of Illinois Alumni Association Announces 2024 Alumni Award Recipients
For Immediate Release July 1, 2024, Urbana, Ill. The University of Illinois Alumni Association (UIAA) announces the recipients of its Alumni Awards for 2024. The slate of awards in six
Donut Dollies
Luis Alberto Urrea’s harrowing and adventure-filled new novel, Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023), centers on the World War II experiences of women in the American Red Cross Clubmobile Service,
Accomplished Executive
Change was in the air in 1967 when Norma Lauder, ’71 BUS, set foot on campus, light years from her Illinois hometown of Cantrall, population then (and now) under 150.
Honored Architect
Architect W. Douglas Gilpin Jr., ’74 FAA, MARCH ’76, designs with a keen eye toward preservation and sustainability, talents that earned him the prestigious Milton LaTour Grigg Award in 2022
