Winning Shot
Imagine a close-up of a basketball and two NBA centers leaping straight toward you mid-jump ball. Or a Stanley Cup face-off, viewed up from ice level. Spectacular images like these
Changemaker
Growing up in a working-class family in Skokie, Ill., Jared Kirchheimer, ’95 ENG, always knew he wanted to make movies, but didn’t see a way forward. “You have to have
The Nine Lives of REO Speedwagon
In the fall of 1966, Illinois undergrads Alan Gratzer, ’70, and Neal Doughty, ’68, lived across the hall from each other on the second floor of Townsend Hall (in the
My Alma Mater: Prison Ball
What would you say if I told you that on April 3, 1982, a group of mostly U. of I. freshmen traveled to the Dwight Correctional Center—a maximum-security women’s prison—to
Star Trekkers
The High Point of 2023 for Daniel C. Wiedrich, ’84 ENG, MS ’89 LAS; Thomas W. Inman, ’84 ENG; and Carl N. Steiner, ’82 ENG, MS ’84 ENG; came at
2025 Alumni Awards
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Temple Grandin Animal behaviorist and autism activist As a young girl, Temple Grandin, PHD ’89 ACES, HON ’04, came to understand how cattle saw the world
I’s on the World: East African Safari
Scott T. Petereit, ’89 VM, DVM ’91, and Jill (Upton) Stocki, ’88 ACES, embarked on a “bucket-list safari and gorilla trek trip” to East Africa in January. The former Illini
Illini Couple: Competing Memories
As to how they met, they give, er, rather different accounts. Lou Gross, ’65 ENG, recalls his future wife clad in “this fluffy pinkish blouse or sweater” when he picked
Alumni Interview: Grant Miller
Growing up in Chicago’s south suburbs, “nerding out” on Star Trek and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, I had a small telescope. Gazing up at the sky, I dreamed of understanding the
A Material Guy
Taeghwan Hyeon, PHD ’96 LAS, has received the university’s 2025 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement. As director of the Center for Nanoparticle Research in
