In Class: Royal Thespian
I teach acting. Beginning acting, contemporary scene work, classical plays. I regard teaching as my life’s calling—helping my students to find their own voice. Because getting a degree in theatre is about learning how...
Chess King
Although the most cerebral of games, chess is lodged in the physical world: the site of the match, the pieces, the players squaring off across a board. But apart from a handful of unobtrusive...
My Alma Mater: A Core Curriculum
When I attended the U of I in the mid-to-late 1950s, I was in the right place, at the right time, with the right major: home economics. Most people may not remember it now,...
Alumni Interview: Robert Doubek
The Washington Post’s architecture critic called the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund “a clipper ship of efficiency.” Part of it was the fact that we were all young. The effort was founded by former junior...
Alumni Interview: Kevin Jackson
When I arrived at Illinois in 1990, a kid out of a tough neighborhood south of Chicago, I had no idea I’d become a research scientist. I was a football player who felt blessed...
Birds of a Feather
In his first picture book, Mr. Watson’s Chickens (Chronicle Books), Jarrett Dapier, ’01 LAS, MSLIS ’15, tells the story of a same-sex couple whose love can survive anything—even a house overrun by 456 singing,...
Taboo Buster
Dr. Nicole Williams, ’97 LAS, ’97 LAS, doesn’t get mad—she gets motivated. When a guidance counselor suggested that she consider becoming a nurse instead of a doctor, Williams doubled down on her studies, earned...
Alumni Interview: Ronald S. Urick
In the 1995 movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, Richard Dreyfuss plays a classical composer who begrudgingly accepts a high school music teaching job to pay the bills. As the film unfolds, though, his outlook transforms,...
Class Notes Profile: Aviation Enthusiast
Visit an air show, and you might see Paul R. Wood, ’76 BUS, waving from a WWI biplane or a Vietnam-era A-4 Skyhawk. Wood is the founder and head of the Warbird Heritage Foundation,...
FIRST CLASS
To understand what has happened at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CIMED), it’s helpful to begin on a scale that goes from titanic to tiny. Within the mighty University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, more...
