2023 ALUMNI AWARDS
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD TRACEY MEARES Yale Law School Professor addresses justice-system inequities One of the nation’s leading authorities on policing in urban communities, Yale University Law School professor
Alumni Interview: Amanda Vanek
I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. My father was a policeman: Sergeant Larry Augustine, a career cop I idolized. Dad used to tell us police
100-Year Remembrance: Ghost Story
Memorial Stadium opened in 1923, but its formal dedication came a year later—at the next season’s Homecoming game. The mighty Michigan Wolverines hadn’t lost in two years, but after pregame
Educator, Artist, Activist
Your mind threatens to explode just listening to Silvia Ines Gonzalez, ’11 FAA, ’11 FAA. What exactly is she? An artist? Curator? Teacher? Community activist? Here she describes a think
Kevin Finke Joins UIAA Board
“You know that kid who never stopped asking why? That was me, growing up in a small town about an hour southeast of Champaign,” says Kevin Finke,’92 MEDIA, the latest
Sports Legends: Historic Hurdler
During a stellar track career, hurdler Perdita Felicien, ’04 AHS, ran in the Summer Olympics (twice), won a World Championship and captured three NCAA titles. But ask the U of
Earth Scientist
David Kohlstedt, MS ’67 ENG, PHD ’70 ENG, spent his boyhood in a farming community of 1,200 in South Dakota, where he developed a curiosity about how things work while
Student Mom
Life couldn’t have been that much easier half a century ago. Right? Some people just make it look that way. Consider Mary Frances Graham, ’77 ACES. In the early 1950s,
Alumni Interview: Michael Sebastian
I’ve always been a magazine man. During the years I lived in the Sigma Chi frat house, I was one of the few who regularly read magazines. I subscribed to
Dream Achiever
Not everyone gets a career path marked by so many signposts. As a child, Natalie J. Bomke, ’04 MEDIA, talked such a non-stop streak that her mom worried there was
