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Agent of Change
After being profoundly changed by her experiences with facilitation and activism at Illinois, Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier went on to a career developing health equity and anti-racism curricula.(Image courtesy...
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Club Kids
“A lot of our old standbys are disappearing,” says Javan Samp, lamenting the loss of Illini Inn, where he and future wife Melissa Raney Samp signed their names as members of the 100,000-strong Mug...
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2023 ALUMNI AWARDS
Tracey Meares (Image courtesy of Tracey Meares) DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD TRACEY MEARES Yale Law School Professor addresses justice-system inequities One of the nation’s leading authorities on...
View ArticleEternal Flames
Their romance began even before school did, at a summer orientation for incoming freshmen. Over the next couple of years, they blossomed together, becoming finance majors, members of rival business...
View Article“I”s on the World: Czech Mates
“We truly appreciated the re-establishment of the downtown areas in Krakow and Warsaw,” says Greg Cargill, ’71 ENG, of the recent trip he and several Illini took to the Czech Republic and Poland in...
View ArticleCheerleaders
For the Hoffman family, cheering on the Illini is a family affair. At home football and basketball games, you will find J.R. Hoffman, ’92 LAS, MD ’96 UIC, and Rose Hoffman, ’92 LAS, in the stands, not...
View ArticleSustainability Engineer
Growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago, John W. Sutherland, ’80 ENG, MS ’82 ENG, PHD ’87 ENG, always liked math and was “pretty good at science.” It was his uncle, an engineer, who told him that...
View ArticleAlumni Interview: Mary Lou Kutska
I’d been at my job as a bridge technical manager at the engineering firm Michael Baker International for two months when I got a photo message from my supervisor. It was a picture of a large crack in a...
View ArticleMy Alma Mater: Around the GLOBE
When I enrolled at the U of I in 2016—a fresh-faced international student from Costa Rica—it was the beginning of a transformative journey that made me feel like I truly belonged. In my homeland, I had...
View Article“I”s on the World: Honoring Fallen Americans
During a Seine River cruise in August 2022, Jay Stortzum, EDM ’71, his wife, Winnie (Berni) Stortzum, MA ’69 LAS, and her sister, Cindy (Berni) Mark, ’79 UIC, visited the Normandy American Cemetery and...
View ArticleI’s on the World: French Connection
James L. Edwards, ’73 BUS, and Patricia A. Roberts, ’74 UIC, DDS ’76 UIC, both went to Taylorville (Ill.) Senior High School before entering the University of Illinois in the early 1970s: Edwards to...
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2024 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS
The University of Illinois Alumni Association announces the recipients of its Alumni Awards for 2024. The slate of eight awards in six categories will be presented on Sept. 12, 2024, during the UIAA’s...
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Foodies
“Cecilia was the girl I wanted to marry,” says Henry Leung. “I had to find a way to get close to her. So I found out her breakfast schedule.” (Image Courtesy of Henry Leung) Breakfast may be the most...
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Picture maker
Keith Cunningham (Image by Gregg Segal) If you’ve gone to the movies in the past 30 years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the work of Keith P. Cunningham, ’89 FAA. Since his first film credit, on...
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Cacti Guy
Steve Delaney loads a rescued cactus into a pickup truck for relocation in Pima Prickly Park in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. (Image courtesy of Steve Delaney) Rescuing cacti is not exactly a walk in the...
View ArticleA 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, recognizing his work to better his native...
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Teacher, Mentor and Friend
Author and journalist John W. Fountain looks through the U of I library archive files collection of his former journalism professor Robert Reid, who died in 2004. Fountain said Prof. Reid had a major...
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Riverkeeper
As the Great Lakes Representative on the Waterkeeper Alliance Board of Directors, Cheryl Nenn shares best practices with fellow riverkeepers worldwide. (Image by Lloyd DeGrane) The “Bronze Fonz”...
View ArticleWelcoming Angela Chalberg Pool
Angela Chalberg Pool, ’94 BUS, MS ’95 BUS, joins the UIAA Board of Directors, excited to give back to her Alma Mater. “I love our mission to ‘inspire lifelong loyalty and pride,’” she says. “I will...
View ArticleAlumni Interview: Adam Cohen
I got my start in hospitality as a pizza delivery guy in Highland Park, Ill. My mom was a party planner and I used to go to all these places, hotels, charity events; I was kind of her assistant. I’d...
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