Spring 2025

30 Years of Shirk

In 2024, the Shirk Athletic Center reached a new milestone with its 30th anniversary. The Center still serves as an essential community hub for campus and Bloomington-Normal.

A Hearth for Haiti

Kevin Hineline ‘88 is working with IWU physics students to develop a new cooking stove for use in the most impoverished and disaster-stricken regions of the world.

Setting A Standard

Jeff Becker ‘01 and Matt Glavin ‘01 are the minds behind Illinois' new AI regulation that's setting a standard for states across the country.

Summer/Fall 2025

175 Years of IWU

This timeline celebrates our new milestone by detailing many of the most significant accomplishments, interesting moments and adaptive evolutions that IWU has experienced across a history almost as old as the state of Illinois itself.

Alumni Award Winners

Meet our Alumni Award Winners John Camardella '03, Natalie Lalagos '12, and Carol Willis '68.

Winter 2025/Spring 2026

The Future of Food

Elliott Notrica ‘26 is the founder of Symbio Bioculinary, a bio-engineering firm that is creating new food product from food waste.

Hope In Crisis

Scott Zeller ‘82, a psychiatrist trained at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and chief of psychiatric emergency services at the Alameda (Calif.) Health System from 1996 to 2016, began the development of his own breakthrough as he faced the complex and acute challenges of mental health in the emergency room.