The Home Team
Xiaohuang “Victor” Huang, MS ’10 ENG, was transformed by a building tour. He distinctly remembers the awe he felt learning about the companies associated with the Grainger College of Engineering’s Siebel Center for Computer...
Cybersecurity Superhero
More than a few times during his college career, Marcin Kleczynski, ’12 ENG, wondered why he was in school. Just months before his freshman year, he and his San Jose, Calif.–based partner founded the...
Jessica Sturdy, ’11 ACES, on fashion blogging for a living
Growing up, Jessica Sturdy, ’11 ACES, enjoyed creating collages from magazines such as InStyle and Teen Vogue. Now, she appears in those same fashion publications whose pages she once cut apart and glued together....
Tiesta Tea founders and alumni partner with Costco
A study abroad experience in Prague led life-long friends, Dan Klein, ’10 BUS, and Patrick Tannous, ’08 UIC, to invest their entrepreneurial energies into the tea market. Now their Chicago start-up, Tiesta Tea, is...
Aquatic innovator Daniel Lynch
On land, coaches video-record golfers and other athletes from multiple angles to help improve their technique. Swim coaches have lacked that luxury—that is, until former Illini swimmer Daniel Lynch, ‘78 LAS, invented the Swim...
Wild cards Tim Swindle and Dave Mazurek
Imagine a pirate saying, “Of course I’m qualified to be your birth doula—I’m a magician with over 30 years of experience” or “I’m an elite-level yelper, so yeah, I know what I’m saying about...
