Category: Alumni

The Alumni Association has announced the annual Alumni Association Awards recipients. Honorees will receive their awards at the Founders Day Convocation on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in the Bone Student Center’s Brown Ballroom. The award recipients will then be introduced at a dinner that evening. Register for the dinner by clicking on Alumni

The charitable IRA legislation is back for a repeat performance—don’t miss this second-chance opportunity to make tax-free gifts from your IRA! There’s good news for individuals aged 70½ or older with individual retirement accounts. Thanks to the extended charitable IRA legislation, you can once again make outright gifts using IRA funds without tax complications. If

The Illinois State Department of Athletics honored a group of six outstanding individuals with induction into its Athletics Hall of Fame during Homecoming Weekend, and one who received the Campbell “Stretch” Miller award. The 2008 class of the ISU Athletics Hall of Fame includes former student-athletes Bruce Ewen (men’s track and field), Dan Freed (baseball),

Illinois State University alumna Amanda (Burke) Wesselmann ’01, M.S. ’04, is currently the associate director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum in Crawfordsville, Ind. In October, her museum received the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service presented by First Lady Laura Bush at a White House ceremony. The medal is the

The Alumni Relations Office is working with a variety of alumni volunteers across the nation to plan “Redbird Watch” parties in conjunction with the Illinois State vs. South Dakota State football game on November 8. The game will be televised on Fox College Sports. Please continue to check the Alumni Relations events listing online for

College of Business alumni frequently ask how they can connect with other graduates in their professional area of interest. Some are eager to see favorite professors or offer mentoring or career opportunities to students with similar career aspirations. The new COB Alumni Networks have been created to meet those needs. Numbering over 31,000 strong, COB

The Illinois State University Alumni Association is proud to offer an opportunity to experience the wonders of Alaska aboard the Six-Star Seven Seas Mariner August 12-19, 2009. This discovery tour features a scenic inside passage cruise on the world’s first all-suite, all-balcony ship, and the first to offer cuisine by the famed Le Cordon Bleu®

Theatre alumna Jeannie Yandel was looking for her professional niche when she heard a voice. After graduating from Illinois State in December 1997, Yandel worked in theatre. She helped found a Chicago theatre company and did makeup at another. She also was a bartender and a pizza waitress. And she was an investor liaison and

Throughout his career of teaching, research, management and consulting, Robert Gray has worked on a number of tough environmental issues ranging from the effects of energy technology development, nerve agents and nuclear materials on human health and the environment, to water quality standards, to the worldwide decline in the number of amphibians. Gray will tell

Greetings COB Alumni! Please join us to officially “kick-off” the NEW COB Alumni Network —our way of helping graduates of the College connect with each other and us! On Saturday, October 18, 2008 between 11:00 a.m. and the 2:00 p.m. Homecoming game against Missouri State, COB graduates, faculty and staff can bring a spouse or guest