Alumni & Campus Stories

David Wright Faladé posed in front of images of his family

In Class: Identity Explorer

I teach graduate students in our writing program, and I teach literature and cultural studies courses, as well as creative writing, to undergraduates. One of my courses is on slavery

Monica Eng standing in a Chicago alley

Storyteller

As usual, Monica Eng, ’91 LAS, was really busy. She’d just finished watching The Chicago Tribune’s Chris Jones interview with Who guitarist Pete Townshend and was filing fixes for her

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FUTURE WORLD 2067

COMPUTER SCIENCE Computers will become even more ubiquitous We’re all terrible at predicting the future. For many years, there was a mathematically exponential increase in computing performance—we were increasing the

David Bambrey in front of a fountain

Big plans

“The beauty, the scale, everything happening—that’s what struck me early on,” says David Bambrey, the University of Illinois Alumni Association’s newly appointed president, recalling his first time visiting the U

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2023 ALUMNI AWARDS

  DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARD TRACEY MEARES Yale Law School Professor addresses justice-system inequities One of the nation’s leading authorities on policing in urban communities, Yale University Law School professor