Virtual game on! Illini have a host of leading-edge technologies at their fingertips to create virtual worlds and complex computer gaming scenarios thanks to Illinois Esports, a program that’s part of the Center for...
For many, COVID-19 meant hunkering down to work from home. Not so for Chicagoan Julie Rodrigues Widholm, ’97 LAS, who was tapped early in the pandemic as the next executive director of the University...
U of I wheelchair athletes Tatyana McFadden, ’13 ACES, EDM ’19, and Daniel Romanchuk, who trained at the University for the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics, delivered two stellar performances in October. Both placed first...
I teach master’s and doctoral students in our graduate programs in higher education and diversity and equity. Many of the master’s students in higher education are interested in being student affairs practitioners. They may...
Felice Sherwin Polson, ’78 FAA At first, keeping busy during the COVID-19 shutdown was a challenge for me. But I did a little soul searching and found myself thinking about my college years at...
The train from Champaign lumbered through the black Illinois night, just past the witching hour, en route to a city on fire. Nineteen-year-old Dillon Brown, Class of 1875, sat in his seat, smelling the...
“I never knew this job existed,” says Erica Bauer, PHD ’10 LAS, sounding amazed that she’s the Chicago Bulls’ director of community relations. Her journey to the Bulls started at Illinois, where she wrote her...
It couldn’t be simpler. A bit of paper, a bit of plastic, a piece of metal, ribbons in orange and blue. These are some of the raw materials that make up the U of...
Jay Bernstein, ’92 BUS, and Shelly Pearson, ’91 UIC, enjoyed the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France during their visit to Nice. The couple journeyed with a group in celebration of a mutual...
What a time to join aviation! The 747 had just been introduced in 1972, and TWA started around-the-world service. A sorority sister persuaded me to join her in New York City in her new...
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