Alumni Interview: Karen Layng
The Seventh Circuit Bar Association was founded in 1951. But it had never had a woman president before me, in 2001. If you go up to the ceremonial courtroom in the Dirksen Center, there’s...
Fleming’s Man
The driving passion of Mike VanBlaricum’s life (one of them, anyway) sparked to life early in 1965 at the Apollo Theater’s Friday-night show in Princeton, Ill., a tiny town surrounded by cornfields about two...
Aviation Enthusiast
Visit an air show, and you just may see Paul R. Wood, ’76 BUS, waving to you from the cockpit of a World War I biplane or a Vietnam-era supersonic jet. Wood is founder...
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: Dan Petrella
I report on state government and politics. My primary focus is covering the Pritzker administration, especially when the governor appears in public here in Chicago. I always wanted to work at the Tribune. I...
Show Runner
On a crisp, clear afternoon in February 2021, Lisa Hennessy, ’91 LAS, returned to the U of I for the first time since her graduation. Tan and fit, her blond hair bleached by the...
An ‘Unconsultant’ for the 21st Century
Many aspects of the pandemic went unpredicted, perhaps none more so than the wave of employees opting to walk away from or not return to jobs that left them undercompensated and unfulfilled. As co-founder...
Tech Titan
SCD springs from a $25 million gift given by eponymous benefactor, Tom Siebel, ’75 LAS, MBA ’83, MS ’85 ENG, whose passion for learning across the disciplines is revealed in his Illinois degrees in...
Remembering Alice Campbell
Alice (Curtis) Campbell, JD ’43, passed away on Dec. 23, 2021 in Westwood, Calif. She was 100. Campbell’s name is expressly tied to the University of Illinois Alumni Association and its Alice Campbell Alumni...
Class Notes Profile: Wing Man
Sean Evans, ’08 MEDIA, arrived to his Alma Mater’s opening home football game weekend as a conquering hero, ready to go one-on-one with men’s basketball Head Coach Brad Underwood. The challenge wasn’t hoops, however;...
