Fast Track
It’s a Saturday morning in early March at the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science. Outside, grim gray rain lashes the Illinois campus. Inside, spirits are high and hopes are bright. Students sit...
Dynamic Duo
The dolphin looks to be in heaven. Her chin is tilted out of the water; she’s gripping the wall with her flippers. She gulps a piece of fish and opens her mouth for more....
2019 Chicago Illini of the Year Awards
Co-sponsored by the UIAA and the Chicago Illini Club, the annual Chicago Illini of the Year Awards recognize outstanding alumni who live and work in the Chicago metropolitan area. Selection is based on nominees’...
Ingenious: The Monuments Man
Fighting Nazis and saving priceless treasures sounds like an adventure for Indiana Jones. But it was the real-life mission of an Illinois professor during the final years of World War II. Edwin C. Rae,...
In Class: Printers’ Helper
The Illinois MakerLab is about five-and-a-half-years old. We began in January 2013. It’s the world’s first 3-D printing lab located in a business school. There are a couple of others around the world now....
The Big Picture: March of the Automata
Holed up cramming for end-of-semester exams? Not these UI mechanical science and engineering students! The stakes are high as budding Illini engineers take to the Engineering Quad to compete in the annual ME 370...
Alumni Interview: Gene Honda
I like to joke that I graduated from the U of I in four terms: the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations. It’s not that I was a slow student, though I’ll admit I never...
“I”s on the World: Orange and Blue ahoy!
Illini sailors proudly display their Orange and Blue on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson. Lt. Mark Ryan, ’08 LAS, DDS ’12 UIC, Lt. Cmdr. Justin Fitzjarrald, ’02 LAS, MPA ’05 UIS,...
In Class: Chef Master
The Spice Box, which serves as a learning lab for the UI’s hospitality management program, is a white-tablecloth restaurant housed in the café on the second floor of Bevier Hall. The restaurant hosts fine-dining...
Class Notes Profile: Mars Rover
Scientists researching extraterrestrial life can’t simply seek little green men. The first beings we discover will likely be single-celled organisms that might have died millions of years ago. That’s why Kennda Lynch, ’00 ENG,...
