My Alma Mater: Home Among the Murals
There will always be a few places in my life that I will never forget. La Casa Cultural Latina at the University of Illinois is one of them. When I arrived on campus in...
Seeds of Success
Armed with a new-fangled device called a laptop that was “the size of a suitcase,” Jeanne Bailey, ’85 ACES, MS ’88 ACES, and her fellow ACES intern, Karen Bender, ’85 LAS, MS ’88 ACES,...
Planet Hopping with Richard Powers
Through each of his 13 novels, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers, ’78 LAS, MA ’80 LAS, has used the lenses of science, technology, history and the arts to explore what it means to be...
Kidney Sisters
Rachel Kindred Kesler, ’09 BUS, and Mandy Lockman Leib, MS ’09 MEDIA, played together as toddlers and attended grade school, high school and the U of I together. Now they live a block apart...
My Alma Mater: Semper Fighting Illini
In 1966, after one semester of college, I ran out of money and joined the U.S. Marine Corps. The Vietnam War was then well underway, and my balmy tour of southeast Asia took place...
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...
“I”s on the World: International Aid
Dave Rees, ’80 BUS, is a frequent visitor to Guatemala, where he brings aid to a country he greatly admires. During recent trips, he constructed high-efficiency stoves to replace the equivalent of indoor campfires....
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...
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...
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...
