<![CDATA[news homepage Listing]]> 600 <![CDATA[Alumna Receives Fullbright Award]]> Date: 7/22/2010 The United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently that Lauren Ostrowski has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship. The 2005 Illinois Wesleyan University graduate will teach English part-time at a secondary school and continue her graduate studies at a local university in Madrid.]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-764-4749 <![CDATA[Alumnus Wayne Messmer Recognized]]> Date: 7/15/2010 Known as "The Voice of Wrigley Field," Wayne Messmer, a 1972 graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, was one of four people inducted into the 2010 Signature Sinfonian class of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia on July 7.]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-731-4640 <![CDATA[Alumnus Receives John V. Bergen Award]]> Date: 7/15/2010 Illinois Wesleyan University alumnus Charles Hawker received the John V. Bergen Award at the annual Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Leadership Conference March 23 in Baltimore.]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-732-4641 <![CDATA[Alumni Elected to University Board of Trustees]]> Date: 6/30/2010 The Illinois Wesleyan University Board of Trustees elected Trustees and a slate of officers at the May 11 annual meeting. Elected to the Board for the term expiring in 2012 are Mary E. Crego, Todd M. French and Byron S. Tucci.]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-722-4577 <![CDATA[Faust Receives NSF Graduate Fellowship]]> Date: 6/30/2010 Recent Illinois Wesleyan University graduate Jennifer Faust has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-723-4578 <![CDATA[Alumni Making Careers in E-Communications]]> Date: 6/30/2010 E-blast, pay-per-click, tweet, update, blog – all of these are tools of social media marketers, a job that didn’t even exist 10 years ago. Now many people, including some Illinois Wesleyan University alumni, are using the Internet and e-communications as an integral part of their careers.]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-724-4579 <![CDATA[Alumnus Competes in U.S. Open at Pebble Beach]]> Date: 6/16/2010 Bennett Blakeman '09, currently a graduate student at Loyola University, proved the "open" in U.S. Open by qualifying to compete among the world's elite golfers.]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-719-4530 <![CDATA[Betz Named New Registrar]]> Date: 6/16/2010 Leslie Betz '93, currently associate dean of the graduate school at Bradley University in Peoria, will return to her alma mater as Illinois Wesleyan's new Registrar.]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-718-4531 <![CDATA[Another Award for Gardner]]> Date: 6/16/2010 Eric Gardner '89 has won a prize recognizing his book, Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, as the best scholarly monograph on American periodicals published in the past three years.]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-717-4533 <![CDATA[Graduate Makes International Opera Debut]]> Date: 6/14/2010 Sarah Sipll '01, an elementary music teacher in the Chicago area, won a competition to perform opera in Mexico, where she received rave reviews.]]> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-714-4529 <![CDATA[Alumni Elected to University Board of Trustees]]> Date: 5/25/2010 The Illinois Wesleyan University Board of Trustees elected Trustees and a slate of officers at the May 11 annual meeting.

Elected to the Board for the term expiring in 2012 are Mary E. Crego, Todd M. French and Byron S. Tucci.   Elected to the Board for the term expiring in 2013 are Daniel E. Jameson and W. Thomas Lawrence.

]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-703-4408 <![CDATA[Shelbyville Woman Chosen as “One of the Outstanding Women You Should Know”]]> Date: 5/25/2010 Attorney Elizabeth Eberspacher Nohren '98 was chosen among "Outstanding Women You Should Know," an award that highlights Central Illinois women who make a difference with their professions and contributions to society.]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-705-4410 <![CDATA[Journal journey traces sabbatical steps]]> Date: 5/25/2010 The Rev. Laura Koppenhoefer '83 left journals to help her congregation to share in the journey during her grant-funded sabbatical. ]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-706-4411 <![CDATA[Alum gives Commencement address]]> Date: 5/25/2010 Actor David Pires '87 gave the Commencement address at Spoon River College. ]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT ID653-704-4412