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Campus Weekly
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May 15, 2018
Published biweekly in the summer months |
News for and about the Illinois Wesleyan community |
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Titan Athletics
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- With a historic win over Hamline University on Sunday, the women's lacrosse team advances in the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse championships, and will face Middlebury College in the third round on Saturday, May 19.
- The Titan softball team won the NCAA regional final on Sunday and advances to the NCAA Division III Super Regional Round for the third straight year.
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Titans In The News
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Newsweek |
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Illinois Wesleyan University professor Linda French spoke to Newsweek about recent astronomical proof of a carbon-rich asteroid, exiled from our inner solar system to the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune. |
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The Pantagraph |
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Illinois Wesleyan’s Center for Natural Science Learning and Research atrium was named The Wilson Atrium, in honor of former University President Richard F. Wilson and his wife, Patricia L. Wilson. |
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WGLT Radio |
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Illinois Wesleyan students will team up with Prairie Fire Theater to stage the original children’s opera Baobob, penned by alumna Nancy Steele Brokaw ’71 and directed by Rhys Lovell '87. |
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Upcoming
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Want your event listed on the University Events Calendar?
Submit the information using our online form.
See May Term hours for Sodexo, The Ames Library, and fitness facilities.
Through May 31, Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Joyce Eichhorn Ames School of Art Building – Art Exhibits – Artist Stephen Linksvayer's exhibit, “I gather the limbs of Osiris,” is featured in the Merwin Gallery. Handmade books by IWU students, created by the Blackstock Press and recently rediscovered in University collections, are in the Wakeley Gallery.
Monday, May 28
Memorial Day – No Classes |
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Kudos |
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Information Literacy Librarian / Associate Professor Chris Sweet published “Baby Bliss: World’s Heaviest Cyclist" in The Wheelman. Sweet’s article discusses how the heavyset Leonard “Baby” Bliss, a Bloomington, Illinois native, was able to make a living combining two Victorian passions: bicycling and sideshows.
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Campus Weekly is an electronic newsletter from Illinois Wesleyan's Office of Communications, edited by Ann Aubry, director of communications. To submit items of interest, email webedit@iwu.edu. See an archive of past editions.
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