Alumni Interview: Mary Lou Kutska
I’d been at my job as a bridge technical manager at the engineering firm Michael Baker International for two months when I got a photo message from my supervisor. It
Sustainability Engineer
Growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago, John W. Sutherland, ’80 ENG, MS ’82 ENG, PHD ’87 ENG, always liked math and was “pretty good at science.” It was
Cheerleaders
For the Hoffman family, cheering on the Illini is a family affair. At home football and basketball games, you will find J.R. Hoffman, ’92 LAS, MD ’96 UIC, and Rose
“I”s on the World: Czech Mates
“We truly appreciated the re-establishment of the downtown areas in Krakow and Warsaw,” says Greg Cargill, ’71 ENG, of the recent trip he and several Illini took to the Czech
Eternal Flames
Their romance began even before school did, at a summer orientation for incoming freshmen. Over the next couple of years, they blossomed together, becoming finance majors, members of rival business
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
Club Kids
So special. So romantic. So U of I, how Javan G. Samp, ’15 ENG, and Melissa Raney Samp, ’15 ACES, together inscribed their names in the membership log of a
Agent of Change
I first stepped foot on campus in 2002—a high school freshman from downstate Illinois, there to prove my mettle in a marching band competition. I got off the bus outside
Globe Trotter
When Scott Ziffra, ’94 ENG, crossed the finish line of the December 2022 Antarctic Ice Marathon, he raised his arms—hands covered by thick black gloves—in victory. The moment marked not
Illlini Beetle
Anyone visiting Keith McLean’s Orland Park, Ill., home can easily see the depths of his University of Illinois devotion. His basement is an orange-and-blue shrine, and McLean, ’88 LAS, a
