Alumni & Campus Stories

Portrait of Taeghwan Hyeon

A Material Guy

Taeghwan Hyeon, PHD ’96 LAS, 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 the

Minecraft waterfall

Ingenious: Minecraft-Inspired

Zaida Luthey-Schulten was presenting one of her lab’s cell models at Seattle’s Allen Institute in 2001 when a Microsoft intern approached her and observed, “That model looks like it could

Jared Kirchheimer on film set

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

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