Campus News
Bankston '91 Named Assistant Athletic Director
Tony Bankston, a 1991 Illinois Wesleyan graduate and former
Titan soccer letterman and head coach, has been named assistant athletic director and director of the Shirk Athletic Complex.
 Bush '02 to Name New Octopus Species
Stephanie Bush '02, post doctoral researcher at the Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute, has the fun assignment to classify and
name a particularly adorable octopus specimen.
Diaz Edits Book on Fate of Little Magazines
Wesleyan's Joanne Diaz is co-editor of a new collection of essays, The Little Magazine in Contemporary America, which suggests the venue may be helped more than hurt by changing technology.
Students Find, Name Bacteriophages
Illinois Wesleyan biology faculty and nearly 40 IWU
students were among nearly 3,000 scholars who sequenced the largest-ever
number of bacteriophages.
Campus Community Reading The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
New students are joining faculty, staff and alumni in a summer
reading selection befitting the year's intellectual theme of "Nation(s)
Divided?"
Aldag '16 Surveying Foreign Investment During D.C. Internship
Austin
Aldag '16 is interning in Washington, D.C. this summer with the Bureau
of Economic Analysis, collecting information on foreign investment in
United States businesses.
Sports
Boudreau '15 Becomes Illinois Wesleyan's 117th All-American
With
the election of track star Allie Boudreau '15, Illinois Wesleyan is
tied for 13th among all participating colleges and universities in its
number of Academic All-American student-athletes since the program began
in 1970.
> Find more highlights at www.iwusports.com.
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In recent posts, 2014 School of Music grad Abby Lyons is attending the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). This year, her song, "Send Me Off To Sea," was selected out of 120 entries to be recorded for the CalArts Jazz CD 2015 at Capitol Records.
Alumni Events
Springfield Area Connection 2015
Date: July 21
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Join President Wilson and Illinois Wesleyan alumni, family and
friends for cocktails and hors d'oeurvres at the Illini Country Club in
Springfield, Illinois.
2015 Greater Champaign/Urbana Alumni Connection
Date: July 23
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Join President Wilson, fellow alumni, friends and family at Jupiter's at the Crossing.
Minority Alumni Picnic 2015
Date: Aug. 2
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Join alumni, family and friends as we welcome Chicago area current and incoming first-year students. Registration will open soon.
22nd Annual Titan Alumni Golf Outing
Date: Sept.3
Time: 12 p.m.
Join us for the 22nd Annual Titan Alumni Golf Outing at Prairie Landing Golf Course. 12 p.m. shotgun start.
Upcoming
Ongoing: A variety of summer camps for youth are offered on the IWU campus.
* REMINDER: Tommy's in the Hansen Student Center is open for lunch this summer, weekdays from 11:30a.m.-1 p.m.
See campus facility hours for summer.
• Through Aug. 27 – Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Joyce Eichhorn Ames School of Art – Summer Art Exhibits
– The newly named director of Illinois Wesleyan's Merwin and Wakeley
Galleries, Ian T. Carey, will be one of the artists exhibiting work in
the galleries.
Carey's "Hoodwinked" is on view in the Merwin Gallery, while Neil Cole
will exhibit photographs in "Scenes from Seoul and Kyoto" in the Wakeley
Gallery.
Summer gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 12-3 p.m.
Tuesday, June 30
• 3:30-6 p.m., Southwest corner, Shirk Center parking lot – Peace Garden Farm Stand – Illinois
Wesleyan's Peace Garden will sell fresh, organic, locally grown produce
in the Shirk Center parking lot (corner of Fell and Emerson) every
Tuesday from 3:30-6 p.m. or until produce runs out. As the summer heats
up, the garden will be providing more and more options for purchase. If
you have questions about what's available, contact Kahri Jung '16 (kjung@iwu.edu) or Rachel Shaffer '17 (rshaffer@iwu.edu) and they can let you know. Thank you for your support!
• 7:30 p.m., Westbrook Auditorium, Presser Hall – Cello Camp Performance – Free and open to the public as part of the IWU Cello Camp.
Thursday and Friday, July 2-3
Independence Day Holidays – Campus Offices will be closed for staff holidays.
Friday, July 3
• 2 p.m., Westbrook Auditorium, Presser Hall – 20th Annual Midwest Cello Celebration – Free and open to the public, this concert concludes the IWU Cello Camp.
Tuesday, July 7
(and Tuesdays throughout the summer while produce lasts)
• 3:30-6 p.m., Southwest corner, Shirk Center parking lot – Peace Garden Farm Stand
Sunday, July 12
• 7:30p.m., Westbrook Auditorium, Presser Hall – Illinois Chamber Music Festival Faculty and Guest Artist Concert
– The opening concert of the festival will feature a Beethoven Clarinet
Trio, Hadjiev Sonatina for Viola and Piano and Duo for Two Cellos.
> Find more on the University's Events Calendar
Kudos
• If you missed the Lunch and Learn presentations at the McLean County Museum of History this spring given by
Information Literacy Librarian / Associate Professor Chris Sweet and Professor of English Dan Terkla, video has been posted online: Watch Sweet's History of Cycling in Illinois and Terkla's Furnishing the Soul: Medieval Maps, Meditation, and Metaphor.
• The summary of findings from a joint project, whose team
included University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian and
Associate Professor Meg Miner, will receive the Preservation Publication Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at its annual meeting in August.
"From Theory to Action: 'Good Enough' Digital Preservation Solutions for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions" summarizes the findings of the Digital POWRR: Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources
project, funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services National
Leadership Grant. Miner was the project leader for Illinois Wesleyan,
which was one of five Illinois universities involved in the project.
• Brittany Ambler '15 is spending the summer performance season with the Bigfork Summer Playhouse in Bigfork, Montana
• Mandi (Cioni) Perko '02 is featured, along with her two sisters, in a LaSalle News Tribune
series on former Illinois Valley sports stars, "Where Are They Now?"
Perko earned a master's degree in reading at Illinois State University
and has been teaching seventh grade English and reading at Beverly
Manner Grade School in Washington since 2007.
• Dr. Cara VanWormer-Hartman '03 has opened Therapeutic Health Associates, a new holistic clinic in Hinsdale, Illinois.
> Find faculty publications and research and creative activity on the University website or Digital Commons @ IWU.
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Titans In The News
Windy City Times
Writer and director Nicholas Reinhart '11 was named among 30 Under 30 best and brightest individuals in the Chicago LGBTQQIA+ youth community.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette
Celia Williams '17 earned a rave review for her performance in the Young Baroque Artists Showcase Concert.
Nashville Business Journal
Brookdale Senior Living President and Chief Financial Officer Mark Ohlendorf '82 will transition to an enhanced role as president as the current chief operating officer steps down.
(Moline) Dispatch/Argus
Longtime Prophetstown coach Don Robinson '76,
who this year became the seventh high school coach in state history
with 700 girls' basketball wins, is retiring after 38 years.
Canton Daily Ledger
Adam Hanes '99 has fulfilled his goal of opening his own clinic, Hanes Physical Therapy.
WGLT Radio
On the June 23 edition of Sound Ideas, Assistant Professor of Psychology Ellen Furlong discussed how her research with dogs can advance behavioral science. Listen.
The Pantagraph
The old Mennonite Hospital, next to Illinois Wesleyan's Martin Hall (formerly Troyer Hall), is being torn down in preparation for sale.
WJBC Radio
Tony Bankston '91 has been named Illinois Wesleyan's assistant athletic director and director of the Shirk Athletic Complex. Also in The Pantagraph.
news.gov.hk
Illinois Wesleyan, which has partnerships with Lingnan University and Hang Seng Management College, is part of a growing education hub touted by Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung.
USA Today
Professor of Computer Science Hans-Joerg Tiede discussed
the American Association of University Professors' decision to censure
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for rescinding a faculty
job offer to Steven Salaita, in response to tweets by Salaita regarding
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tiede was co-author of an AAUP report
on the incident.
The Pantagraph
Class of 1937 IWU alumna Virginia Shannon Guy is celebrating her 100th birthday.
WGLT Radio
Illinois Wesleyan hosted the 17th annual McLean County Economic
Seminar, where a top Busey Bank executive reported a low unemployment
rate and other signs of economic strength for the region. Also in The Pantagraph.
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