Moulin Rouge!, executive produced by Illinois Wesleyan alumnus Bill Damaschke ’85, earned 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, at the 74th Annual Tony Awards ceremony on Sept. 26.
Building leaders who “engage the power of diverse perspectives” is central to the mission of the Multicultural Leadership Institute, now managed by Matt Drat ’84 and Samira Kassem ’21.
COVID-19 cases have dropped on Illinois Wesleyan’s campus, where 96% of students are vaccinated and nearly a month has passed since the last reported student coronavirus case.
(Arlington Heights, Ill.) Daily Herald
Artwork from John Rakow ’98 was featured in “Signals and Codes,” an installation included in the Terrain Biennial international public art festival.
APN News
Jessica Smith ’17 joined Peak Therapy & Sports Performance’s Pembroke (Mass.) clinic, where she will develop a specialized rehabilitation program for dancers.
HealthCentral
Toni Tortorella ’21 shared lessons learned during her personal cancer journey, and the full-circle moment of becoming a registered nurse in the same operating room where she had been treated.
Odessa (Texas) American
Internationally acclaimed soprano Kirsten (Arnold) Chambers ’97 will perform "A Life Made in Music: The Love Story of Kirsten and Keith Chambers," conducted by her husband, at the Yucca Theatre in Midland, Texas.
Matthew S. Schuldt '99 was named to the Tuck MBA Council for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Artwork by Instructional Professor and Gallery Director Carmen Lozar was featured in the fall 2021 edition of Glass: The UrbanGlass Quarterly. Titled "The Fabulist," the article is summarized: "Mining the expressive power of flameworking, Carmen Lozar renders poignant allegorical scenes that speak to contemporary concerns with the authority of timeless fables."
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