Students Awarded for Intercultural Leadership
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) recently announced recipients of the Intercultural Leadership Award (ILA). The awardees include junior art and biology double major...
View ArticleSpring Internships Hit All-Time High
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Illinois Wesleyan’s Hart Career Center reports that students securing spring internships reached a record high of 136, up 30 percent from the most recent 5-year average of 105. “The...
View ArticleAuthor and Activist Calls for Fire and Passion
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – “It’s all about catching on fire,” said activist and author Sister Helen Prejean during her address at Illinois Wesleyan University Founders’ Day Convocation on Wednesday. “Our life...
View ArticleKindred ’63 Awarded for Outstanding Journalism
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Dave Kindred, a 1963 Illinois Wesleyan graduate, has been chosen as the 2012 winner of The Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism. Kindred joins a list of previous Schaap...
View ArticleWhalley ’09 Honored for Gypsy Performance
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – On Monday, Feb. 6, the winners of the 10th Annual Craig Noel Awards were announced and honored at a ceremony in the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Calif. Among the...
View ArticleCampus Mourns Forrest J. Frank
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Illinois Wesleyan University mourns the death of Dr. Forrest J. Frank, who died on Thursday, Feb. 9 in Bloomington. Dr. Frank was a member of the IWU faculty for 34 years. “I am...
View ArticleOpera Singer Pfortmiller to Speak, Perform
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – From Wednesday, Feb. 22 to Friday, Feb. 24, the Illinois Wesleyan School of Music will host alumnus and acclaimed opera singer Kyle Pfortmiller, class of 1992, as he gives two...
View ArticleGrider Named Scholar of the Year
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Ronald Grider, an Illinois Wesleyan University senior from Peoria, Ill., has been named a 2012 Collegiate Scholar of the Year by the Illinois Heartland Section of the American...
View ArticleNSF Funds Wesleyan Study of Social Exclusion
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— What causes some of us to be ignored or feel isolated, how do these feelings impact us and what can we do about them? Gaining insights into these and other questions related to what...
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Illinois Wesleyan’s Given Harper serves on a nocturnal observation team, making an official count of area owl populations.
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Brittany Childs ’12 received her doctorate in veterinary medicine in 2016, and has joined the West Suburban Veterinary Associates as an associate veterinarian.
View ArticleBiology Major Awarded Prestigious Research Fellowship
Brooke Koebele ’19 has been awarded an undergraduate research fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology, with a stipend for full-time research mentored by an IWU faculty member, plus funds...
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