Alumni & Campus Stories

portrait of Andrew Davis

Dig This!

In Disturbing the Bones (Melville House, 2024), Andrew Davis, ’68 MEDIA, and Jeff Biggers weave a geopolitical conspiracy thriller that’s set almost entirely within the state of Illinois—filled with war

portrait of Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman

A Man of Many People

Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman, PHD ’98 SW, received the University’s 2024 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement in recognition for his work to better his

Shelly Zhang in her lab

Ingenious: Engineered Healing

If computers can be programmed to perform a myriad of functions, then why can’t materials be programmed to do the same? And how could those programmed materials be applied to